Marc Gasol, president and player of Bàsquet Girona, is included in the list of basketball players who have communicated to the ACB “their intention to return to competitions” in the 2022-23 season.
The club association has made public today the list of players subject to the right to try and those who wish to compete again in the highest category next season, Gasol among them.
The winner of the NBA title in 2019 and double world champion with the Spanish national team in 2006 and 2019 avoided commenting on his future on June 19, when Bàsquet Girona was promoted to the ACB league .
Marc Gasol is 37 years old. After passing through Barcelona and Girona and after thirteen seasons in the NBA, the Barcelona pivot opened a second stage in Spain by returning in 2021 to Bàsquet Girona, which he also presides over.
His home club, FC Barcelona, ”does not maintain its qualified offer, so the player is free to sign for another team,” said the ACB.
Along with Gasol, they want to return to the ACB the players Eric Vila (their rights are from FC Barcelona), Angelo Caloiaro (Oradoiro), Conner Frankamp (UCAM Murcia), Patricio Garino (Baskonia), Nikola Kalinic (Valencia) and Mindaugas Kuzminskas (Málaga).
As for the players subject to the right to try, there are 22 players registered by the clubs in this list.
Offers can be submitted by any of them until July 14 and the home clubs will have five more days to decide if they want to match them.
The players subject to the right to try are the following:
Wade Baldwin IV, Saski Baskonia; Dairis Bertans, R. Betis, Laurynas Birutis, Obradoiro CAB; Vladimir Brodziansky, Young Badalona; Kwan Cheatham, Fuenlabrada Basketball; Shannon Evans, R. Betis; Damien English, Basketball Bilbao Berri; Juan Nunez, Real Madrid; Anzej Pasecniks, R. Betis; Filip Petrusev, Saski Baskonia; Dusan Ristic, Fuenlabrada Basketball; Kassius Robertson, Obradoiro CAB; Philip Scrubb, Obradoiro CAB; Thomas Scrubb, Laborer CAB; Yankuba Sima, Manresa Basketball; Leo Meindl, Fuenlabrada Basketball; Isaiah Taylor, UCAM Murcia; Jacob Wiley, R. Betis; John Paul Vaulet, Manresa Basketball; James Webb III, UCAM Murcia; Derek Willis, Juvenile Badalona; in Arturs Zagars, Young Badalona.