Mario Hezonja’s soap opera completes another chapter with the player still in competition, since his Real Madrid has gone to the final of the Endesa League (waiting to meet a rival, Unicaja de Málaga or UCAM Murcia). The Croatian has been linked to Barça in recent weeks ahead of next season, with growing interest on the part of the Catalans in recovering his former youth player, but that arrival is still far from coming to fruition. Increasingly. ‘Supermario’ handles three cards in his deck: stay or jump to Barcelona or Panathinaikos, and the Blaugrana’s is the least powerful in the hand.
Xavi Ballesteros (L’Esportiu) He points out that Hezonja “does not want to leave Madrid” and that “Mateo is delighted with him.” He ends his contract and pushes for a renewal that Walter Tavares, another of the axes of the project, has already pursued at Real. The Catalan club made a succulent offer for him to be the starting forward and thus give another blow to the rivalry between the two teams, but the Balkan team makes a move. He already explained in a joking tone before the Final Four that Florentino Pérez pressured him to renew every time he saw him, being one of the most visible faces that have been in this new stage with Chus at the head of the bench: “Hopefully”. For him, out of sentimentality, there had always been the option of Panathinaikos, which now has two more elements to convince him: the economic one, due to its injection of money, and the sporting one, because in the Euroleague they are now the champion. With that he has given Mario to value himself in the market and sell himself as one of the important players in the best continental competition, where he has averaged 13.5 points in the last edition.
Hezonja would have another impediment if he wants to leave Madrid for Barcelona: the right of first refusal that prevails in the Endesa League. Real, although they stopped exercising it last year with Willy Hernangómez, have the possibility of executing it in the summer and making any Spanish club that wants them pass through cash.
Letting oneself be loved, something that RNE advanced in its day, did not respond to anything other than seeing how far its assessment went. With the NBA still in mind, in case it arose, but knowing that in Madrid he is a pillar for several years. The meringues, in addition to knowing the continuity of Tavares and the departure of Poirier, have closed the incorporation – directly from Russia – of the Canadian Xavier Rathan-Mayes, have held conversations with Usman Garuba and have distanced positions with the Spanish international Lorenzo Brown. With Ndiaye and González signed up for the first team, and Alocén wanting to stay, the chapter of departures, together with that of the aforementioned Poirier, advances with the retirements of Rudy Fernández and Sergio Rodríguez and the departure of a Causeur who points to Paris (new team in Euroleague).
Hezonja is celebrating his second season in Madrid. One year into his thirties, in full maturity as a basketball player, the one from Dubrovnik is still waiting to see if Giannakopoulos raises Panathinaikos’ offer to take him over or can finally close a long-standing renewal with the Madridistas.
Lace in Barcelona
Hezonja counted on Navarro and company’s predictions for the new squad. One in which they will not be, except as a surprise, Oscar da Silva, who is going with Laso to Bayern, youth players like Oriol Paulí or James Nnaji, with different chanes for their futures, Rokas Jokubaitis (Zalgiris Kaunas) or Nikola Kalinic (Red Star) . With Núñez tied up and interest in another from Ulm, the center Trevion Williams, Hezonja appeared as the tenant in the ‘3’ position, with the mobile piece of Álex Abrines (guard) to help at times, something that at this moment remains in standby.
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2024-06-04 09:57:29
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