The new Palencia Basketball player, Chumi Ortega. /
He has competed the last three seasons with the HLA Alicante of LEB Oro under the command of Pedro Rivero
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Palencia Basketball continues looking for the perfect pieces to compose the best possible puzzle for next season. The second incorporation of the purple team, after the signing of Micah Speight, is the Murcian escort José Francisco ‘Chumi’ Ortega (08/13/97, 1.90m, Murcia), who will play in the collegiate locker room in the next campaign.
Formed in the Yecla Sports Network, in 2015 he signed for UCAM Murcia to play with the EBA team. In this stage,
debuts in ACB and Eurocup with the first team. After finishing his contract with the Murcian team, he signed for Albacete Basket of LEB Plata and in the 2018-19 season he made the leap to LEB Oro with HLA Alicante, a team in which he competes for 3 seasons and with whom he achieves, in the latter, 5.7 points, 4 rebounds, 1.2 assists.
«He is a player who in his last years has stood out for one fundamental thing, he does everything that does not appear in the statistics. This is super important within groups, but it is also
He’s going to give us a lot of character, a lot of rebounding and he’s going to be our defensive leader»Analyzed Pedro Rivero, coach of the purple team.
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