Alex Abrines He says goodbye to basketball when he has not yet fulfilled 32 years. But the eave has yet given time to carve a career in the most prestigious basketball that not only includes the honor of moving around the history of Barça As an emblem of the club, but having passed through the top of the basketball, the NBA. And having won the respect of the divos of basketball as in its day was the MVP and future hall of famer Russell Westbrook con los Oklahoma City Thunder.
“Abrines is an incredible shooter and a very strong person,” he said in his Mallorcan day Russnow without a team after ending contract with the Denver Nuggets.
Alex Abrines had a brief but remembered passage through the NBA between 2016 and 2019 with those imposing Westbrook Thunder and Paul George. The Balearic shooter left Barça in 2016 to launch the American adventure with Oklahoma waiting for him after having drained 32 in 2013. Abrines arrived just the same summer in which Kevin Durant He went to the Golden State Warriors and just a year before George landed.
Alex Abrines, captain and emblem player from FC Barcelona forever
The Spanish international became a reliable bench player in those thunder aspiring to the ring in the prime of Westbrook, who received the help from Wolverine to lift the MVP in 2017. At the statistical level, the eaves had its best season in his year in Rookie with 6 points and 1.3 rebounds in 15 minutes with a remarkable 38% in triples with a volume of 3.6 attempts.
Abrines also agreed in his time in Oklahoma with other illustrious retired such as Carmelo Anthony and the former Barca eRSIN Ilyasova and others active Domantas Sabonis and Steven Adams. Although Westbrook was in its peak, the team then trained by Billy Donovan could not go first in the three opening campaigns and affected by Durant's march, far from the finals of 2012 or the 2016 conference finals. The Thunder would have to wait until this 2025 to win their first ring with another MVP as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
Wolverine contributed to its Rookie season -La 2016/2017 -that Spain had for the first and only time in its history so far double digits of players with 10. Nothing less than One third De la Liga had Spaniards in its ranks with Pau Gasol (Spurs), Marc Gasol (Grizzlies), Ricky Rubio (Timberwolves), José Manuel Calderón (Hawks and Lakers), Willy Hernangómez (Knicks), Juancho Hernangómez (Nuggets), Sergio Rodríguez (Philadelphia 76ers) (Bulls), Serge Ibaka (Raptors and Magic) and Abrines himself.
Apart from his triples, the most apotheosic moment for Mallorcan was his two -handed mate before Jordan Bell.
However, and despite that good progression that he was carrying in his NBA career, the eaves was cut in February 2019 by the Thunder of mutual agreement. Mallorcan had to stop his career temporarily to take care of his mental health and leave the NBA as he did Ricky Rubio Also in 2023. A Ricky has decided to resume basketball where it all started, the Joventut, almost at the same time that Alex Abrines has decided to say goodbye. Both agreed last year at Barça and also in the selection.
The renowned manager of the Thunder, Sam Prezti, He regretted the loss of Wolverine at the end of the 2018-2019 season, recognizing the eave's relevance.
“For me, the place in the roster in which we had no redundancy or continuous support was when we lost Alex,” admitted the executive, who said he hoped that he opens exploded that season.
But the Mallorcan continued to add luster to his career with his return to Barcelona to erect in symbol of the Barca club with several titles. The eave returned the same summer in which Barça hit the Nikola Mirotic. Abrines returned to the Old Continent with the recognition of Russell Westbrook, which sent some felt words back.
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“He is a very good person, he helped me especially in the first year. On many of our trips we did things together, we saw a movie, we had dinner. When I went through all this (his stop for mental health) and did not travel with the team, we were still in contact. He cared about the person above the player. He told me that he would support me if I needed to leave,” said Lobezno in 2019 in statements he collected Eurohoops.
“He is an inspiration. He plays hard. He gives 100% in all games and on training. It doesn't matter who he faces,” Abrines said in 2020, a player who has been forged a great respect in the NBA and with concrete of one of the best bases of all time and Hall of Famer Singed: Russell Westbrook.
