Real Madrid defeats Barça in the NBA … again

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The eaves surprises the Hawks

This is the one

Ndiaye surprised many when the Atlanta Hawks incorporated him with a contract two-way After the draft and has continued surprising despite playing only one game in this Summer League, that of the debut against the Miami Heat of Kasparas Jakucionis for a wrist injury.

The also quarry of the Real Madrid He signed 12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 robbery and 1 cap in just 21 minutes in his portentous premiere that left the GEORGIA set, who see in Spanish of Senegalés an NBA player for years if he improves his outer shot. Your ability to defend Five positions And pressing every track is what especially amazed Atlanta.

Ndiaye, of 21 years And 2.04, arrived at the training basketball of the capital of the capital with 13 and is the first Spanish player who arrives at the best league in the world with a dual contract, which will allow him to combine the G-League and the NBA.

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Sixers stay

Be Almansa

Almansa did not spend so much time in the Real Madrid quarry but had a brief stage between 2019 and 2021, when he left for USA To play in Overtime Elite.

The 2.08 power wing and 20 years He played the Summer League with the Philadelphia 76ers with some averages of 3 points and 2 rebounds, apparently little striking statistics but did not reflect intangible as their athletic power and their ability to change everything in defense.

After not being drafted, the MVP of the 2023 U-19 World Cup has earned a position in the Sixers of the G-League, the Delaware Blue Coats. There you must improve aspects such as the shooting and execution of the pick and roll as a blocker and continuator.

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Interesting prospect for Jordi Fernández

Egor demin

Although it has been a little more unnoticed in this case because it is not Spanish, the Russian Egor Demin also spent a good season in the Real Madrid quarry with three years between 2021 and 2024. And with Demin there are up to four players formed in the white club that participated in the Summer League In front of the three forged in Barça, which inclines the 'marker' in favor of Real Madrid for a tight 4-3.

Demin, base of 19 years and 2.06, was drafted in 8 by the Brooklyn Nets of a Jordi Fernández who has an interesting diamond in the Russian to start polishing from his second season as head coach of the New York team.

The base, which last campaign competed with the Cougars of the NCAA, averaged 11 points, 4.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1 robbery per party according to statistics collected by the journalist Cameron Salerno. Fernández has had the help of Anna Cruz To integrate Egor Demin into the system because Badalona has lived his first experience as a coach after ending an extraordinary career in April.

While Demin has disappointed from the point of view of the game direction, hardness the passing pass, the Russian has surprised with his 43.5% in triples.

FC Barcelona's Canteranos

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Has the fascinated NBA

Kaspar Jakucionis

Barça can be in numerical inferiority in this duel of Canteranos that he has maintained with Real Madrid in the Summer League but has in Kasparras Jakucionis one of the players who has the most intrigued to the NBA.

Of course, the former Barca base drafted in 20 by the Miami Heat He showed why Florida's team is so excited about him with especially his 24 -point performance against Atlanta Hawks. Lithuanus has had numbers of 9.5 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists but 3.7 losses in this summer league with 32% in field shots and 21% in triples as points out Yahoo Sports.

Jakucionis arrived at the Barça quarry in 2021, debuting with the first team in 2023 by the hand of Sar Jasikevicius and leaving to the University of Illinois in 2024 to put under the radar of the NBA.

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Convinced of its NBA potential

James respond

James Nnaji has been on the Radar of the NBA for some time and in this Summer League he has represented with the New York Knicks to the quarry of FC Barcelona and also to the club itself according to Barça's position, since the Barca entity considers that it is still part of the club before NNAJI's statements that the last two years of contract are optional. And is that Barça maintains that the Nigerian has to pay 800.000 euros of clause if you want to leave the club.

In any case, the Nigerian pivot of almost 21 years The NBA prioritizes after leaving lights and shadows in this summer league, exhibiting its defensive and rebounding ability leaving discrete numbers of 3.2 points and 3.6 rebounds in 11 minutes, with 11 rebounds in its last game making him upload the average capture.

Nnaji and his agents would be in conversations with the Knicks right now. The interior of 2.11 reached the Barça quarry in 2020 and Sar Jasikevicius He made him debut with the first team in 2021. Last year, the African played on loan in Girona and Merkezefendi of the Turkish Second Division.

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With one eye on a return to Barça

Ibou badji

Although perhaps a little more outside the radar of the fans Culés because he played for the last time in Barça in 2021, Badji has been another representative of the Barca quarry in this Summer League with his participation with the Denver Nuggets.

The 22 -year -old Senegalese pivot and 2.13 barely played two five -possible games with the Colorado set, although at least they looked in the second of them against the Lakers of Bronny James With 8 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 robbery.

Badji enrolled in the Barça quarry in 2019, being another player of the formative basketball who made debuts Sarunas Jasikevicius with the first team in 2021. The interior was transferred to Lleida the 2021-2022 season, at the end of which he separated from the Catalan club to begin his trip to the NBA.

The African played the following course for the G-League team of the Milwaukee Bucksthe Wisconsin Herd and also for the Rip City Remix, the subsidiary of some portland Trail Blazers with which he played 22 games in the NBA. Badji played again for the Wisconsin Herd last year, returning to ACB in the final stretch to play seven games with the Lenovo Tenerife.

Badji told MD that Barça wants to recover, although the Barca club has denied it. The prolific quarry of the Joventut has also been represented with Isaac Nogués and its participation with the Kings.