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Marc Gasol will play in Palma

The irruption of Marc Gasol in the LEB Oro It has been an earthquake in the second category of Spanish basketball. The pivot, a true NBA champion and Olympic medalist with the senior team, he has chosen Bàsquet Girona, a club that he himself founded and presides over, to continue his sports career in recent years as a professional. At 36 years old, and after leaving the United States, the middleweight of the Gasol saga becomes an attraction for the competition, debuting this coming Friday, in Fontajau, and against Levitec Huesca, direct rival of Palmer Alma Mediterránea Palma for permanence.

Precisely, the Majorcans will be one of Gasol’s first rivals in his new stage in Girona – he already played between 2006 and 2008 in the then Akasvayu Girona, in the ACB League – although this will have to wait three days. Will be in the twelfth, when Palmer Palma will visit the Catalan court, in principle, the next December 17, in a duel at the key moment for the aspirations of both, since Girona currently has just two victories, one more than the men of Pau Tomàs and Álex Pérez, who close the classification with Huesca (1-9).

The long-awaited visit from Girona, and with it from Marc Gasol, will have to wait a few months. In fact, it will not be until the second round of the competition in the LEB Oro, on matchday 29, when the great star of the league steps on the Palau d’Esports. The provisional calendar sets the date of the April 17, 2022 Like that must see all an NBA champion in Son Moix. And he will not be the first player with that rank to be measured against an island team in the category, because in the 2008/09 season, American Wayne Simie (winner of the ring with Miami Heat in 2006) did it against Bàsquet Mallorca, wearing the elastic of Cáceres, although on the Extremaduran track.

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