Devon Hall signs with Cairns Taipans in the NBL

Devon Hall was selected in the second round of the 2018 NBA Draft, but it’s going to be at least another season before the Virginia alum makes his debut with the Oklahoma Thunder. The UVA standout signed an agreement to take his talents to Australia to play in the NBL for the Cairns Taipans this coming season.

Hall will join Penn State’s DJ Newbill and Maryland’s Melo Trimble on the Taipans, and head coach Mike Kelly is enthusiastic about what Devon brings to the team.

“He is a worker,” Kelly told the NBL in a press release. “From everyone I have spoken to about the work ethic he had at Virginia, he did the extras before and after training. I love that about him already, just knowing that he…