The North American League has a different balance for Spanish players in 2022, bringing some to the top and others down.
2022 is coming to an end and, although the era of National Basketball Association will continue, if a year begins to close loss of popularity of Spanish basketball players on NBA courts.
While it will always be remembered that in December Jordi Fernandez led a team from the best league in the world for the first time and Santiago Aldama lived in cycles of Memphis Grizzliesmost of the six players participating in the competition have significantly lost their presence.
The injury that kept Ricky Rubio off the courts in the 2022 NBA
For Ricardo Rubio the year 2022 did not exist on the slopes of nba as he is fully focused on recovering from the serious injury he sustained on December 28, 2021 when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Operated and in full rehabilitation, the Cleveland Cavaliers they included him in a transfer operation, justified because the contract ended and allowed to balance the salaries in an operation that led to Caris LeVert until Cleveland.
As a free agent, he returned to cavalierswhere he is expected in January 2023 as a luxury substitute for Darius Garland. For now Blonde He has practiced five on five with the team of G League and the technician john blair ´JB Bickerstaff He confirmed that he has no minutes for the rest of December.
The year that was the opposite of Willy Hernangómez’s expectations in the NBA
Willy Hernangomez lost his status in New Orleans Pelicans in the year 2022. Although the start of 2021/2022 was not good, from January to April of this year he secured a place in the rotation of Willie Green playing fifty regular league games. It favored him zion williamson he will not come back from his injury, but also participate and respond to opportunities. He always shows it, and in the summer, with eurobasketballit is no different.
Coming back from Europe as the champion and the MVP under his arm, all indications are that he will have minutes in pelicans. But the center from Madrid barely played fifteen games, most of them less than ten minutes on the court. Therefore, his name is in transfer rumors and he could change the landscape before the market closes. “Many more NBA teams are interested in me after Eurobasket”he assured in a recent interview.
One in lime and another in sand for Juancho Hernangómez
The brother of willy, Juan Alberto Hernangomezlived bitterly in 2022. Positive because the commitment to the cinema, the movie was very good ‘haste‘ It was a complete success, but in sports he did not finish finding his place. Between January and February, Juancho he wore the t-shirts boston celtics, San Antonio Spurs Y Utah Jazzsuffers the cruelty that every player experiences when it becomes a bargaining chip in transfer operations.
Naa Jazz He played just 17 games, nine of them as a starter, to feel like a basketball player again at the end of the season and open up a new opportunity in the summer, which was as a free agent, when he reached. toronto raptors. But the Canadian franchise took a while to regularly count, although it closed December with the confidence of Nick Nurse: As a starter and averaging 25 minutes and five points per game.
Teaching year for Usman Garuba in the NBA
For usman garuba 2022 can be described as learning. So far this season he has played more than all of last year, with 30 games compared to 24 last season. The pivot of sugar gained the trust of Stephen Silas y is one of the interiors of rotation of Rocketsaveraging 14.7 minutes per game with 3.1 points and five rebounds.
He left a terrible end to the season with eleven games in four months, many training sessions, surgery and a summer with commitments to Summer League -who did not play due to injury- and the eurobasketballwhere he was a key part of the champion team for Sergio Scariolo.
Serge Ibaka, from the best to the worst of the NBA year
serge ibakabecame part of the inner circle of Milwaukee Bucks upon arrival. The last month of the regular season leads us to think that it will be important for Mike Budenholzer in the postseason but in the playoffs he played almost 22 minutes. Irregularity also characterized the close of the year with bucks. He started playing in October and November, but throughout the month of December he lost popularity.
Santiago Aldama, the exception to the Spanish rule in the NBA year
The exception is trouble, which became less. In the current season, 2022/23, he has played more games than in the whole of last year. To add a plus, most of them are as a starter and have good numbers. The absence of Jaren Jackson Jr. he was allowed to be part of the starting five in the first fourteen games and responded well with confidence already Taylor Jenkins deposited here.
In statistics, he averaged 9.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists with a 37.5% success rate in three-point shooting. The evolution is very remarkable considering that between January and April 2022, the grizzlies together Memphis Hustlethe group of G League. In addition, he hasn’t started and won’t play any minutes in the Playoffs, but his promise and impressive performance in Summer League from Las Vegas This helped him get credit and opportunities in front of the coaching staff.
Source: Tycsports
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