OSHAWA, Ont. - The Oshawa Power of the new National Basketball League of Canada (NBL) announced that they have signed Canadian Senior Men's National Team (SMNT) member Denham Brown to a contract.  The NBL is Canada's newly created professional national basketball league.

“For many years Denham has been a role model to younger players around the country," said Gary Durrant, the team's president of basketball operations. "Denham will provide leadership and experience to our team and be a great example for youth in our community."

The 6’5” shooting guard and former University of Connecticut Huskie is coming off a stint with the SMNT) in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, where he averaged 6.6 points per game in the FIBA Americas Championship for Men/Olympic Qualifying Tournament. While at Connecticut, Brown, a Toronto native, won an NCAA Championship as a sophomore playing for legendary coach Jim Calhoun.

Brown attended the Power’s first day of pre-training camp on Monday at Premier Fitness in Oshawa and has played professionally for six years. In 2010-11 he plied his trade in the Ukraine Super League for BC Dnipro where he averaged 13.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and three assists per game.

In previous years, heplayed for the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the Phillipines, the Iowa Energy and Dakota Wizards of the NBA Development League, Tisettanta Cantu in Italy and Turkey’s Galatasaray. Brown was drafted 40th overall in the 2006 NBA Draft by the Seattle Supersonics and played briefly for the NBA Development League’s Tulsa 66ers.

In high school, Brown gained fame by once scoring 111 points in a high school game while playing for West Hill Collegiate in Toronto.

“Denham has had an accomplished career at all levels and has represented Canada since 2003 and has also played in some of the best leagues around the world,” Durrant said.

The Oshawa Power have a home pre-season game on Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. against the London Lightning and will play their first home regular season game of the season on Thursday, Nov. 3 at the General Motors Centre, where they will tip off against the Moncton Miracles at 7:30 p.m.