Heraklis Signs Jake Forrester

Heraklis announced that it has signed American center Jake Forrester. The player has joined the club until the end of the current season. Forrester, who left Prometheas, answers Heraklis's search for a center. According to the source report, Heraklis head coach Zoran Lukić is not satisfied with Jacob Hatson's performances so far.

Forrester was born in 1999 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The 2.07-meter player began his college career at Indiana in 2018. He then played three seasons at Temple, from 2019 to 2022. He completed his college career at Saint Louis University in the 2022-2023 season. In the 2020-2021 season at Temple, he averaged 9.3 points and 6.4 rebounds per game over 16 games.

He started his professional career in the summer of 2023 with Artland Dragons in Germany's second division. There he averaged 12.5 points and 6.2 rebounds in 33 games. The player came to Greece for the first time in the 2024-2025 season and played for PAOK. In the Stoiximan GBL he averaged 8.2 points and 4.5 rebounds in 27 games, and in the FIBA Europe Cup he averaged 7.9 points and 4.8 rebounds in 18 games. In the 2025-2026 season he moved to Aris. During this period he recorded 5.6 points and 4.5 rebounds in 22 GBL games, and 5 points and 3.3 rebounds in 18 EuroCup games.

This season Forrester, who started with Strasbourg in France, appeared in one Jeep Elite game. He then signed with Prometheas, where he played 11 games. He averaged 5.3 points and 4.2 rebounds in six GBL games, and 7.4 points and 4 rebounds in five FIBA Europe Cup games.