Zalgiris Kaunas, who regained the Betsafe-LKL title last Saturday, officially introduces the team’s first recruit for 2025-2026 season. Guard Nigel Williams-Goss joins Zalgiris on a 2+1 contract.
The 30-year-old 191 cm tall player, who has been on Zalgiris Kaunas’ radar several times in the past, played for Olympiacos Piraeus in the 2024-2025 season, where he reached the Euroleague Final Four and became the Greek champion.
“The conversation with Nigel started early and lasted quite a while. We communicated a lot and told him how we see him in our team and what our vision is for the upcoming season,” said club president Paulius Jankūnas. “From the first conversation, you could feel the respect he had for the organization, for all the attention we showed him. He liked it, he appreciates our organization. Conversation after conversation, we managed to convince him and persuade him. I think that’s the level of player we were missing.”
Last season in the EuroLeague, Williams-Goss averaged almost 23 minutes per game, scoring 8.6 points, 3.4 assists and 8.6 points per game. In the Final Four in Abu Dhabi, the American played only the semi-final against AS Monaco and scored 12 points.
Williams-Goss spent his college years at Washington University (2013-2015) and Gonzaga University (2016-2017). Due to NCAA rules at the time, the American switched universities and had to spend his first season at Gonzaga without playing basketball, but it was during that year that he got to know Domantas Sabonis, who was still with the team.
The guard started his professional career with Partizan Belgrade in the 2017-2018 season. The American made his EuroLeague debut in the 2018-2019 season with Olympiacos Piraeus.
In the 2019-2020 season, which was marked by the coronavirus pandemic, he played for the Salt Lake City Stars in the G League. In the same season, Williams-Goss was given the opportunity to open the NBA door with the Utah Jazz.
After a season across the Atlantic, he moved to Lokomotiv Krasnodar in the middle of the 2020-2021 season. After his season with Lokomotiv, the American spent two years with Real Madrid. In the 2023 EuroLeague Final Four in Kaunas, Lithuania, Williams-Goss won the EuroLeague championship.
Since 2023, he joined Olympiacos for the second time in his career. The American has reached the EuroLeague Final Four in the last two seasons with the team and has played in the last four Final Fours, including two seasons with Real.