Willy and Juancho, Juancho and Willy. Flavio Tranquillo has repeatedly pronounced the names of the two great protagonists of the final and of all Eurobasket 2022 alternating: the elder brother (Willy) was awarded as MVP of the event, the younger brother (Juancho) as MVP of the match against France. Now they are expected at the start of the NBA season with the jersey of Pelicans and Raptors respectively, to establish themselves definitively also in America. Where their career has not always been so easy up to now
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: MVP OF THE FINAL | A dream final: Juancho Hernangomez turned on in the second quarter of the match against France (6/6 from three in 6 minutes) and never went out: in the end for him 27 points with 9/11 from the field ( and a sensational 7/9 from long distance). Deserved the prize for best player of the final, won also (if not above all) thanks to his contribution
WILLY HERNANGOMEZ: FIRST 2022 EUROBASKET QUINTET | Older brother Willy (who scored a 14-point performance in less than 23 minutes in the final) was included together with team-mate Lorenzo Brown, Dennis Schroder (Germany), Rudy Gobert (France) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) in the best quintet of these European 2022
WILLY HERNANGOMEZ: MVP EUROBASKET 2022 | But the Hernangomez brothers’ dream tournament saw the icing on the cake with the MVP award of the event handed to the Spaniard by none other than Dirk Nowitzki. His European Championships ended with an average of 17.2 points (tenth best scorer of the tournament) and 6.9 rebounds (15th best rebounder), but above all with a leading role played perfectly in a national team that needed a new leadership after the match. farewell to many veterans
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: THE BEGINNINGS | The Draft is that of 2016 and the Spanish talent is the first called out of the Lottery (15th overall choice, like a certain Giannis Antetokounmpo only three years earlier) by the Denver Nuggets, who at that time could also count on Danilo Gallinari in their roster
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: DENVER | In Colorado, the youngest of the Hernangomez brothers stays for three and a half seasons, until the trade on February 5, 2020. In the Nuggets jersey his best season is the third, when he finds minutes (almost 20 minutes per evening) and of the 70 races disputed in the starts 25 in the quintet, producing almost 6 points and 4 rebounds on average
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: MINNESOTA | The four-way exchange (which in addition to Denver also involves Atlanta and Houston) brings him to Minnesota at the beginning of 2020. In the Timberwolves jersey he plays a season and a half, showing off especially in the 14 races (all in the quintet) played just arrived and closed with an average of almost 13 points and 42% from three points. The second year (2020-21) was less brilliant, with only 6 starts as a starter
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: BOSTON | The 2021-22 season for Juancho begins with two summer trades: the first from Minnesota sends him to Memphis, but the Grizzlies immediately sell him to the Boston Celtics. In green-and-white for Hernangomez he finds no space: only 5.3 minutes per evening in the first 18 games, and attacking production at the lowest in his career (1.1 points per evening)
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: SAN ANTONIO | Boston (in a trade that also involves his former team, the Denver Nuggets) sends him to San Antonio, where however Juancho’s stay is really short. In Texas the young Hernangomez plays only 5 races, just over 10 minutes of average use (and 1.4 points per evening)
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: UTAH JAZZ | Thus comes the second exchange in less than a month: once again the trade is three and in addition to Spurs and Jazz it involves the Portland Trail Blazers. But Hernangomez found a home until the end of the year in Utah, where he played 17 games (of which 9 as a starter), with a good time (17 and a half minutes in the evening) responding with 6.2 points per game and almost 44% from three (on an attempt and a half in the evening). At the end of the year, however, he was cut by the Jazz
JUANCHO HERNANGOMEZ: TORONTO | The 2022 summer transfer market brings the No. 41 of the Spanish “up the border” selection to Canada: it is signed by the Toronto Raptors (the former team of Sergio Scariolo, his national coach). Raptors who will have been delighted to see the state of form of the young Hernangomez at Eurobasket: a threat from the arc so it can suit Nick Nurse’s team
THE MAN KNOWN AS “BO CRUZ” | If the American adventure on the parquet so far has not given the satisfactions that Juancho was able to deserve with his national team, the same cannot be said of the film career, which took off with the participation (much applauded by critics and audiences) in “Hustle”, the film with Adam Sandler (and with LeBron James producer) also visible on Sky (within the Netflix app). In the movie Juancho / Bo Cruz is an NBA talent pursued by scout Stanley Sugarmen (Adam Sandler)
WILLY HERNANGOMEZ: THE BEGINNINGS | Less “eventful” the NBA career of his older brother, Willy, which begins with the 2015 Draft when the New York Knicks choose him on the second round, with the call n ° 35. In the Big Apple Willy remains a year and a half: as a rookie he impresses positively (8.2 points and 7 rebounds on average in less than 19 minutes, with 72 games played and 22 appearances in the quintet) but after a difficult second season start he is traded
WILLY HERNANGOMEZ: CHARLOTTE | On February 7, 2018 he is traded by the Knicks and ends up in Charlotte, whom he will call “home” for two and a half seasons. Only 4 starts in the quintet out of 111 races for him in the Hornets jersey, however, and an overall average of 6.7 points and 5.1 rebounds in the evening in just over 13 minutes of use
WILLY HERNANGOMEZ: NEW ORLEANS | At the end of November 2020 he was put under contract, as a free agent, by the Pelicans, his current team (with which in the summer of 2021 he renewed with a multi-year – 3 years, 7.3 million dollars – which sees him under contract until 2024) . For him so far 20 quintet starts in 97 races (and 8.4 points with an average of almost 7 rebounds per evening): now, however, the great opportunity to carve out a well-defined role in the Williamson-Ingram-McCollum “Big Three” team. Not easy, but very fascinating
Mykhailiuk, meanwhile, finds the post for the Knicks. Kostas Antetokounmpo has signed a two-way contract with the Bulls.
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