Lhe NBA continues to closely monitor everything that happens around Real Madrid. And more specifically to its youth academy, in which it has found a source of talent for the future. In this way, season after season, names of white youth players appear in the draft pools and this time it was the turn of Matteo Spanish, one of the pearls of the quarry that shines in the Italian Cremona where he is on loan from the white team during this course.
Real Madrid’s new pearl is here: Matteo Spagnolo‘s winning basket
The Italian guard points to second round draft in the different mock drafts (the predictions made by the most prestigious pages in the United States about young basketball talents) although some more optimistic predictions (NBADraft.net) put him near the bottom of the first round.
Spagnolo is one of Real Madrid’s great hopes for the future. The Italian, who He renewed with the white team for three seasons last June, has been loaned by Madrid to Cremona of the Italian Serie A so that he can gain experience and minutes in the elite. And the Italian is taking advantage of it as his 12 points and 2.5 assists with 48% shooting from three.
Spanish is considered one of the greatest talents of the class of 2003 and he has already been a protagonist in Real Madrid, the team with which he won the Adidas Next Generation Tournament, the Junior Euroleague, being a fundamental part of the title and being chosen in the best quintet of the tournament after averaging more than 15 points and five assists per game. match.
The winning basket of Matteo Spagnolo, the Italian pearl of Real Madrid, in the European Sub 16
Nzosa and Vukcevic, also in the predictions
Another of the names that also appears as a fixed in that second round of the draft is that of the former Real Madrid Tristan Vukcevic. The new player of Partizán de Zeljko Obradovic appears situated between positions 40 and 45 in most of the predictions, which could put his jump to the NBA on hold for one more season to continue developing in Serbia.
Unicaja’s player Yannick Nzosa is another of the names of ACB players that already appears in the pools for the next draft. Nzosa, who has just become a Spanish citizen although he will not be able to play for Spain until he is 23 years old, appears in the first places of the second round linked to teams like the Thunder or Miami Heat.
