The output of Jabari parker (30) It has revolutionized the panorama in Barça de Basketball, which had no money to perform any size operation has negotiated with the American eaves Will Clyburn (35) Already keep contacts to sign two more players. The first will be a pivot that replaces Youssoupha Fall (30), Plaza for which the number one on the list is the Frenchman Yoan makoundou (24). And the second, on which the club maintains a complete secrecy (even about its position), will be a player who has never played in Spain but whom Spanish fans know perfectly: Lorenzo Brown.
Barça wants to reinforce the base position and has noticed the American game director, who must leave the Panathinaikos after the signing of TJ Shorts by the Athenian team. Brown signed a three -year contract with the Greek club last summer but his performance has not been expected and Ergin Ataman has granted him an almost residual role in the final stretch of the season. His departure from Athens is taken for granted but has not yet been formalized.
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Brown was until a couple of years one of the reference bases of the European basketball, with stages in several Euroleague teams such as the Red Star (2019-20), Fenerbahçe (2020-21) and MacCabi Tel Aviv (2022-24) before hearing last summer in the Panathinaikos.
The Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) achieved its nationalization in June 2022 and that summer Brown was a key piece in the gold achieved by the Spanish team in the Eurobasket of that summer. Then I would only play two other games with the national team, on the occasion of the 2023 World Cup qualifier.
Brown, who will turn 35 in August and measures 1.96, is seen by Barça as a market opportunity, a player who has already left his best stage behind but who maintains much of his quality and that can help Barça overcome one of his greatest shortcomings of last season, the game generation from the base position.
The operation is not simple, because in spite of its bad last season (6.3 points, 2 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 7.6 valuation in about 15 minutes of play during the last Euroleague) Brown's cache is above what would have Barça left to sign after Willburn's operations and the pivot that still remains to be incorporated. Barça, which seeks an agreement for a season, expects the compensation that Brown must collect from the Panathinaikos to terminate its current contract helps the base accept the Barca club an adjusted offer.
Another attraction for Brown is that he already knows several Barça players – Willy Hernangómez, whom MVP of the European made with his assists, Darío Brizuela and Joel Parra – after having coincided with them in the Spanish team in the summer of 2022.
