Icelandic Jon Stefansson, who played for Unicaja in the 2014/15 season, in which the Malaga team achieved third place in the ACB and forced a fifth game with Barcelona in the semifinals, announced that he is ending his stage as a professional basketball player after several seasons playing in his native Iceland. After a defeat of the Value, his team, before him KR they were eliminated and the guard said that he is already retiring from professional basketball.
Stefansson’s career has been very extensive. A couple of years ago he said goodbye to the national team, but now he announced that he does not continue. KR Rejkjavik, Trier (Germany), Dallas Mavericks (NBA), Dinamo Saint Petersburg (Russia), Napoli, Lottomatica Roma and Benetton Treviso (Italy), Valencia, CB Granada, Zaragoza and Unicaja (Spain) They were the teams of Stefansson’s extensive career, who from 2016 to 2020 played for KR Rejkjavik before signing in his last season at Valur, another team from the Icelandic capital in which, curiously, he has shared a dressing room with a Unicaja youth squad , Pavel Ermolinski, who was in Los Guindos for several years, alternating the Fertility Corner with the first team, in which he debuted hand in hand with Sergio Scariolo.
Stefansson arrived with the season about to begin as a substitute for the departure of Zoran Dragic a Phoenix and it ended up being important for Joan Plaza’s plans and assuming important minutes.
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