Basketball scouting & NBA salaries
Talor Battle
PG - 6'0, 170lbs - 36 years old - 0 years of NBA experience
Retired - Retired after 2018 season
- Birthdate: 09/16/1988
- Drafted (NBA): Undrafted, 2011
- Pre-draft team: Penn State
- Country: USA
- Hand: Right
- Agent: -
Stats
Transactions
| Date | League | Transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 1st August, 2011 | France | Signed a one year contract with Cholet. |
| 5th December, 2011 | France | Left Cholet. |
| 5th December, 2011 | Germany | Signed for the remainder of the season with Telekom Baskets Bonn. |
| 4th August, 2012 | Italy | Signed a one year contract with Capo D'Orlando. |
| 18th July, 2013 | Belgium | Signed a one year contract with Mons-Hainaut. |
| 5th June, 2014 | Belgium | Signed a two year extension with Mons-Hainaut. |
| 15th June, 2015 | Belgium | Left Mons-Hainaut. |
| 9th August, 2015 | Israel | Signed a one year contract with Hapoel Tel-Aviv. |
| 29th February, 2016 | Israel | Left Hapoel Tel-Aviv. |
| 1st March, 2016 | Latvia | Signed for the remainder of the season with Ventspils. |
| 15th March, 2016 | Latvia | Signing cancelled. |
| 6th February, 2017 | Hungary | Signed for the remainder of the season with Atomeromu. |
| 14th July, 2017 | Slovenia | Signed a one year contract with Olimpia Ljubljana. |
Career Moves
| 2007 - 2011 | Penn State (NCAA) |
| August 2011 - December 2011 | Cholet (France) |
| December 2011 - June 2012 | Telekom Baskets Bonn (Germany) |
| July 2012 | L.A. Clippers (Summer League) |
| August 2012 - June 2013 | Capo D'Orlando (Italy, LegaDue) |
| July 2013 - June 2015 | Mons Hainaut (Belgium) |
| August 2015 - February 2016 | Hapoel Tel-Aviv (Israel) |
| March 2016 | Ventspils (Latvia) |
| February 2017 - June 2017 | Atomeromu (Hungary) |
| July 2017 - present | Olimpia Ljubljana (Slovenia) |
Articles about Talor Battle
June 22, 2011
A tale of two hairlines.
Talor Battle - Battle has the aptest surname for a basketball player since Rolando Blackman. Battle is little, very little, listed at 5'11 and possibly smaller than that. But he battles, and has been something of a one man show for an improved Penn State. As a junior, Battle led the team in points (18.5ppg), assists (4.3apg), steals (1.1spg) and even rebounds (5.3rpg), and while getting a little help in his senior season brought down the rebounds and assists numbers, Battle's scoring went up to 20.2ppg.
He did this via his jumpshot, and he is a much better three point shooter than his 36% shooting from there suggests. Battle regularly shot from 30 feet, not because he was Jimmer Fridette, but because Penn State had no other offensive options, and Battle had to force something up. And given that being so small meant he was easy to smother on the perimeter, he had to drop back farther to shoot. Due to his size, Battle can't do much around the basket and is no defensive threat - he doesn't seem to have good hands, and isn't even especially fast. It's not likely that he makes the NBA as a shooting specialist. But if there was a summer league, he'd be in it, from whence anything can happen.
[Sadly, there is to be no 2011 summer league.]