Pau Ribas foul on Causeur, who will take free throws
22:54
Pesic: "First I want to give the enhrabuena for the amdrid, he has deserved this victory. We have played against a great team, when you lose you are not happy, but we have players with pride. I think we have a great future. Balance of the year? Not now, tomorrow".
22:52
Full Time! Barça Lassa 68-74 Real Madrid. The whites revalidate the title of league champions.
22:51
Triple of Pangos to make up the marking (68-74).
22:49
Foul on Campazzo and scores both. 65-74.
22:48
Basket by Pau Ribas (65-72).
22:48
63-72. Write down both the ‘Facu’. This league will be white …
22:47
Foul by Pau Ribas on Campazzo.
22:47
Hanga Triple !! 63-70. They remain 31.7.
22:46
Tavares scores (60-70). 40 seconds left …
22:44
Put one of two Causeur and quick basket of Pau Ribas. 60-68 and subtract 1:15.
22:42
Real Madrid timeout. 58-67 and 1:34 left with two free throws for Causeur.
22:42
Pau Ribas foul on Causeur, who will take free throws.
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Nico Laprovittola is the MVP Movistar of the Endesa League 2018-19! The player’s parents have traveled from Argentina to surprise the Divina Seguros Joventut point guard with the award for best player of the season. Laprovittola has obtained the maximum points among players, coaches, fans and the media.
05/27/2019
On at 16:06 CEST
This Monday has been a very special day for Nico Laprovittola, brand new MVP Movistar of the Endesa League 2018-19. The Argentine baseman has presented himself to his team’s regular ixbet movies training and has found a double surprise prepared by Movistar: his parents, whom he placed in Argentina, have appeared on the track to give him the trophy that accredited him as the best of the season.
Margarita Stolbizer and Juanino Laprovittola traveled from Buenos Aires this weekend to make the award won by the Divina Seguros Joventut base doubly special. Along with them, the player’s partner, Delfina Vollmer, has been part of the delivery, and Laprovittola’s teammates at Divina Seguros Joventut have also signed up for the party.
Nico, excited
The Argentine was excited and happy after the surprise, ensuring that "ending the season like this, receiving an award of this magnitude, for me it is something incredible, something that I had not thought of for my career. I think the whole year we did with the team and the whole year I worked was worth it".
Laprovittola is not a man to get emotional easily, but this time he couldn’t help crying. "Occasionally I have felt a bit of emotion, but I am not crying, it does not come out. But today has totally overcome me. It was very exciting, I didn’t expect it. Seeing them there, they too, very excited and happy to see their son succeed, filled me completely ”.
And is that suddenly meeting his family and the award was something that could not be imagined. “I didn’t expect it at all. They put everything together well for me to get into the joke and the truth is that it has been very strong for me. Both my dad and my mom and Delfi, my girlfriend, are very important to me, to be able to bear living away from home, having their support in all the games. They have a credit for having brought me here ”.
Highest possible score
Nico Laprovittola has obtained the highest score in the voting carried out among players and coaches of the competition clubs, fans and the media.
The Argentine player has received 100 possible points, thus obtaining the unanimous recognition of all, after a season in which he has been the great reference of the green-black team. With his brilliant performances, Laprovittola has led the Badalona team to many of the victories they have achieved, being fundamental in the good campaign developed by his team, which returns to the Playoff for the title four years after its last participation.
Laprovittola: "La Penya has brought me back to a level that perhaps I no longer expected"
A stratospheric triple by Laprovittola gives victory to La Penya
Laprovittola has been the most valued player on his team and the second in the Endesa League, averaging 17.2 points, 6.4 assists and 2.5 rebounds for a PIR of 17.2.
The Argentine base of Divina Seguros Joventut, Nico Laprovittola, acknowledged this Tuesday that at 29 his current team has given him back "at a level that perhaps no longer expected", after entering "in a fairly large well" during his year at Zenit in St. Petersburg.
05/07/2019
On at 18:32 CEST
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Laprovittola was a fundamental piece in the salvation of the green-black team last season, and this year he is leading it, first until the Copa del Rey, where he scored 40 points to eliminate Kirolbet Baskonia in the quarterfinals, and now he is chasing the qualifying rounds for the title of the Endesa League.
Individual recognitions are beginning to arrive, such as the award for the best Latin American player in the League awarded for the first time by the ACB and the EFE Agency, an award in which he has surpassed players such as the Mexican Francisco Cruz or his compatriots Facundo Campazzo and Luca Vildoza .
The Argentine recognizes to Efe that he is "a pride and an honor" represent Latin American basketball in Spain and considers recognition as "a nice prize" to his career in a Joventut that, from his hand, has reached unthinkable heights at the beginning of the course.
"It has been a long and busy year in which we worked to be in the Cup and then we continued to do so to be in the play-off. The objective was to play each game in the best way. It is what I tried throughout the year and thanks to that mentality now the awards arrive"he commented.
The Argentine points out that the squad, the club and the city have offered him "a very important place" where can "relaunch" his sports career and offer his best level as a basketball player, something that he hopes will continue for many years. "I hope to continue growing"says the best Latin American player in the Endesa League.
"I always say that the ‘Penya’ has empowered me and has taken me to a higher level than I was bringing. Doing it this way and for them it has been a privilege", stressed the game director.
Regarding his future, Laprovittola considers it to be "hard to foresee", and that right now he only has his head on "in the final four waiting" Joventut, with an eye on returning to play the qualifying rounds for the title.
"If we are among the eight best, that would mean that next year the ‘Penya’ would be in Europe. There are many things ahead of the club and the team before me. I don’t want to get ahead of anyone", explained about its continuity in Badalona.
Laprovittola admits that the victory against Barça Lassa at the Palau Olímpic has caused the team to arrive with "an impulse" to these last four days, three of which will play in front of their fans. This week, the green and black host the bottom, UCAM Murcia, and Baxi Manresa.
"At this point in the competition, when you risk your life, those below give a lot of fight"says the player, recalling the defeat on the track of the then bottom player, Delteco GBC, before beating Barça Lassa for the first time in Badalona after 12 years.
Laprovittola reveals that one of his most important baskets of the season, the incredible triple that gave his team the victory against San Pablo Burgos, came in one play "totally different" to which the coach, Carles Duran, had ordered in the previous time-out.
"That shot is not rehearsed and the play they ordered us was not that, but it happened like that. The ball came in with a bit of fortune for us and it meant a very important victory for us", summarizes the base.
Barça Lassa would have fully tied to the American pivot of Zalgiris Kaunas, Brandon Davies, according to the Eurohoops website, an agreement between the two parties, for two seasons and that would be around four million euros.
05/26/2019
On at 22:34 CEST
Davies has a contract with Zalgiris, so Barça would have to compensate the Lithuanian team for his early departure, an agreement that seems practically closed with the club and also with the player.
Davies, who was chosen in the first Euroleague Quintet despite not reaching the Final Four this year, this season averaged 14.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and two assists in 34 games.
End of season announcement
He is currently playing the Lithuanian League Finals, where Zalgiris will face Rytas Vilnius, so the agreement will not be announced until the end of the season there and also the Endesa League, where Barça will start the play-offs this Friday. , before Divina Seguros Joventut.
A motivated Barça Lassa snatches the second place from Baskonia
Vincent Poirier, at the Barça Lassa center casting
Davies was a coveted player by teams such as Real Madrid and CSKA, who wanted to strengthen their squads for next season, although it seems that Barça Lassa has been ahead of them, and will close an agreement for the American who will replace Kevin Seraphin .
Svetislav Pesic has been designated by the AEEB as the Best Coach of the regular phase of the Endesa League 2018-19. The Serbian coach receives this award for the first time in his career, in tough competition with Pablo Laso, who finished second by a slight difference, who opted for Pesic on the last day.
05/29/2019
On at 17:06 CEST
Pesic has led Barça Lassa to a final balance of 27 wins and seven losses. In addition, the Blaugrana team has won the Copa del Rey for the second consecutive year. All this has allowed him to be named this season by the AEEB as Best Coach in the regular phase of the Endesa League.
Pesic will collect the trophy that accredits him as Best Coach of the regular phase, from the president of the Spanish Association of Basketball Coaches, Juan María Gavaldá, in the run-up to the first Playoff match, which will face Barça Lassa against Divina Seguros Joventut , next Friday, May 31 at the Palau Blaugrana.