The pivot will close a great career with a move to the NBA and the national team in a Game that will feature the past and present of Mexicans.
The center of Mexico Gustavo Ayonwinner of 12 titles including real Madrid Spanish, he will say goodbye to basketball on Sunday 21 in a match where a team of his friends will face the Mexican team.
“It didn’t take me long to make this decision. Throughout my career I learned to pay attention to my body, when I can do well and when I can’t. It takes me more than 24 hours to recover after a game. I am fully retired and at a great basketball level”, explained the center of 37 years. According to who is described by Real Madrid as a legend and one of the great pivots in its history, ending over 15 years of racing with a meeting at Guadalajarastate capital of Jalisco.
The squad of his friends team has not yet been revealed. the of the Mexican team, on the other hand, already has defined names. This will also be dealt with from August 25 in the fourth window of America’s Qualifications going to Philippines, Japan and Indonesia World Cup 2023.
Among those summoned by Omar Quinterocoach of Mexico, will be Francisco ‘Pako’ Cruzwhich is active in Tofas Turkish, and Jorge Gutierrez, former NBA player who now belongs to the Mexican Astros. To both, Ayón led Mexico to its last great victories when, led by the Spaniard Sergio Valdeolmillos, qualified for their first World Cup after 40 years in Spain 2014. The pivot also helped achieve the FIBA Americas Championship title in 2013 and the gold in Centrobasket in 2014; in the same tournament that won the Most Valuable Player award.
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His biggest success at club level was at Real Madrid, with whom he played 340 games between 2014 and 2019, in five campaigns in which he entered the club’s history books. All in all, he won with meringues two Euroleagues, one Intercontinental Cup, four ACB leagues, three King’s Cups and two Super Cups.
The 2.08 meter tall pivot became the third Mexican in the NBA in 2011 after Horace Flames Y Eduardo Najera. In the best basketball league in the world, Tepic’s son was in 135 games where he averaged 4.7 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists. The middle He belongs to the New Orleans Hornets, the Orlando Magic, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawkshis last team in the 13/14 season.
Other teams with him According to in his career were the Mexicans Falcons of Xalapa and the Jalisco Stars. In addition, he spent his last two seasons in Puerto Rico with the Capitanes de Areciboquintet where won the Island League in 2021 and fell in the semifinals on August 1, 2022, his last game as a professional.
“I am leaving in peace and I feel calm because I gave basketball everything I could: passion, work and responsibility. Sunday will be a party in which I will be grateful to basketball”convicted former player of zenith Russian.
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Source: Tycsports
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