The Real Madrid The basketball team won their first title of the season a few weeks ago in Seville, winning the Super Cup, for which victory they had to face Real Betis Baloncesto, in a match where the Verdiblancos showed their faces and did not make it easy for the capital team. Real Madrid must have gotten such a good impression from that game that now it seems to have insisted on signing a Betis player to solve one of its biggest problems.
those of Chus Mateo they have a problem with the base position. Sergio Rodriguez, one of the signings of the summer, is 36 years old and it is difficult for him to accumulate many consecutive minutes of good basketball, especially if he faces very physical guards, something that is lost with age. Mateo also has Sergio Llull for that position, with problems similar to those of the ‘chacho’, but also taking into account that he is not a pure point guard. The other two point guards on the team are Nigel-Williams Goss, waiting to recover from the injury he suffered in the Final Four last May, and Carlos Alocén, who is also injured for the rest of the year and could go out on loan when recover. Given this scenario, and with the refusal of Facundo Campazzo to sign for the whites, Florentino Pérez could take out his checkbook to sign Shannon Evansas advanced from ‘mate al aro‘.
The American base, with an Equatorial Guinean passport, was key in the permanence of the Real Betis Basketball in the Endesa League, so the Verdiblanco team renewed him last August for one more season. Last season he averaged 17.4 points, 3 rebounds, 6.8 assists and a PIR of 19.1 per game in the ACB.
According to the aforementioned media, Madrid would have offered him a two-year contract, at a rate of 1.2 million euros per season, something well above what he receives at Betis.
It is no secret that the Verdiblancos are not doing well economically, although it would be a bad move to part with one of their best players.
Shannon Evans is delighted in Seville, having acclimatized to the city from the first moment, although the economic offer and the possibility of winning titles could make him rethink his options. Be that as it may, if the player wants to leave Real Madrid and Real Betis they will have to sit down to negotiate.
