Edon Maxhuni (born May 21, 1998) is a Finnish professional

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player who plays as a

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for

Karşıyaka Basket Karşıyaka Basket is a Turkish professional basketball team located in Karşıyaka, İzmir, that competes in the Turkish Basketball Super League. It is a section of the multi-sport club Karşıyaka SK. The team also goes by the name of KSK, whic ...

of the

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(BSL). He is also part of the Finland national team

Youth career

Maxhuni started playing basketball in a youth team of his hometown club before joining

Helsingin NMKY NMKY Helsinki (, HNMKY for short) is a YMCA in Helsinki, Finland, best known for its basketball section. Other activities include sports like floorball and martial arts, scouting, choirs, orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental en ...

in 2012. Later he was trained at the Helsinki Basketball Academy of the

Finnish Basketball Association Basketball Finland (, ) is the governing body of Basketball in Finland. It was founded and became members of FIBA in 1939. Basketball Finland operates the Finland men's national team and Finland women's national team. They organize national com ...

, and played in the second-tier

Koripallon I-divisioona The Koripallon I-divisioona is the second tier professional basketball league in Finland. The teams play playoffs

with the academy team

HBA-Märsky HBA-Märsky is a Finnish basketball club, administrated by the Helsinki Basketball Academy. Their home arena is in URHEA Campus in :fi:Mäkelänkatu, Mäkelänrinne, Vallila, Helsinki, which also serves as the National Olympic Training Center. He ...

. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Maxhuni was named the MVP of the Finnish second-tier league.

College career

He left Finland in 2017, to study and play basketball at

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, United States. Until 2019, the point guard played a total of 67 games for the college team, averaging 6.7 points per game.

Professional career

CB Canaria Claret SAD

In the 2019/20 season, he was under contract with the Spanish third-division

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team CB Gran Canaria Claret SAD, playing in 24 league games and averaging 13.3 points per game.

Pärnu Sadam

Maxhuni signed with Estonian club Pärnu Sadam for the 2020–21 season where he became the Estonian vice-champion. In 2021, he was also named in the

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in Estonian

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Heroes Den Bosch

In the 2021–21 season, Maxhuni played for the

Heroes Den Bosch Heroes Den Bosch is a Dutch professional basketball club based in 's-Hertogenbosch. The club plays in the BNXT League since 2021 and in the top basketball division in the Netherlands since 1972. Founded as EBBC in 1951, the club had several sponso ...

in the

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and the

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, and in 2022, as the team's top scorer, won the Dutch championship title.

Crailsheim Merlins

In September 2022, Maxhuni accepted an offer from

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of the

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and the

. During the season, he averaged 11.8 points and 3.9 assists per game.

Le Portel

On 8 October 2023, Maxhuni signed with

ESSM Le Portel Étoile Sportive Saint-Michel Le Portel Côte d'Opale, commonly known as ESSM Le Portel or simply Le Portel, is a professional basketball team based in Le Portel, France. The team currently plays in the LNB Pro A, Pro A, the first tier in France. ...

of the French

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on a short contract as an injury replacement, with an option to extend. Since his arrival, Le Portel managed to change their trajectory and won seven out of ten games played, after having started the season with five losses and only one win. On 22 December 2023, his contract was extended for the rest of the ongoing 2023–24 season. At the end of the season, Maxhuni helped Le Portel to qualify for the LNB Elite Playoffs, for the first time since 2017. He finished his first season in French league averaging 10.9 points and 3.7 assists per game.

SIG Strasbourg

On 18 July 2024, Maxhuni signed with fellow French team

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on a two-year deal.

Scafati

In January 2025, he joined Italian

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on a loan contract for the remainder of the

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Karşıyaka

On April 24, 2025, he signed with

of the

(BSL).

National team

Maxhuni received an offer to play for the Kosovo national basketball team but declined, since he was a Finnish youth national player at the time. He participated in events such as the 2014 FIBA U16 EuroBasket and the

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and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. Since 2020, Maxhuni has been part of the

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. During the

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, he averaged 8.9 points per game in seven tournament matches. Maxhuni was named in the Finland squad in the

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, averaging 7.2 points and 3.8 assists per game in five matches. Maxhuni played also in the 2024 FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament, averaging 12.7 points and 4.7 assists in three games against

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and

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. As of 7 July 2024, Maxhuni has played 53 official games with the senior national team.

Personal life

Maxhuni's parents are ethnic

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from

Mitrovica, Kosovo Mitrovica ( Albanian indefinite form: ''Mitrovicë''; sr-Cyrl, Митровица, Mitrovica), also referred to as Kosovska Mitrovica ( sr-Cyrl, Косовска Митровица, Kosovska Mitrovica; Albanian: ''Mitrovica e Kosovës'') an ...

, who moved to Finland in 1992. His father, Besim Maxhuni, played basketball for

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and

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, and later became a coach, currently coaching Raiders Basket in the

Koripallon I-divisioona The Koripallon I-divisioona is the second tier professional basketball league in Finland. The teams play playoffs

in Finnish second-tier.

Career statistics

Domestic leagues

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National team

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References

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