Aday Mara’s Transfer Saga: Zaragoza Fights to Hold on to Rising Spanish Basketball Star

Aday Mara took the definitive step towards the United States by distancing herself from Casademont Zaragoza, the club where she was trained, on August 2. On the 3rd, the signing of him by UCLA was announced, the prestigious Californian university where Lew Alcindor or Bill Walton had previously attended. The club hand was silent. He had already stated that, after learning of Mara’s intention to go to the NCAA, he would do everything possible to safeguard his interests and count on the player for the next season. A mess far from being undone.

With Mara training in the concentration of the Spanish National Team as a guest, after his participation in the EuroBasket sub-18, the storm was expected to subside. But not at all. The player has been summoned, according to Heraldo de Aragón, this Wednesday for the mandatory medical examination that begins the preseason. But in Spain, not in the United States.

Zaragoza keeps the pulse because it considers that the agreement signed at the time in line with the player is still active. The financial compensation required to release Aday has not been paid.

Porfi Fisac ​​will be in charge of the bench for another year. With him he did not play everything that was expected for a boy who was on the springboard to go to the NBA. The coach already warned him during the season that he required a change: “I am not happy with him. I would like him to have another set of conditions. Not in the game, he is growing in the game and he doesn’t need excessive help from the coaches. Yes in terms of how to act in the field. Those details have already been passed on to you. The rest? He is growing, he is an extraordinary kid, he works with determination and an important attitude”.

Zaragoza is positioned before the more than clear possibility that the player breaches the contract and the situation is resolved in court. Yes, there will be another companion of his same generation, the renewed Langarita.

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Aday Mara, 2.20 meters tall at 18 years of age, is considered one of the main supporters of men’s basketball for Spain in the coming years. His scoring ability, not only near the basket but also from long distance, as well as his impressive reading of the game and the ability he has to intimidate the opponent on defense are weapons that he has and hopes to develop further. . UCLA looked at it to get him. Mick Cronin, the varsity coach, stated the following about this mess last week: “We were confident. It had already been discussed a long time ago. It was a matter of going through certain hoops. It usually happens when you start to sign foreign people”. With those words he gave the impression that between the two clubs, or -in any case- the parts of Zaragoza and Mara, an agreement had been reached on the separation thanks to the contribution of the NIL (economic rights; the initials of Name, Image, Likeness), but it is not. The clause of 600,000 euros is still in the eaves and Casademont Zaragoza is not going to give up on it and the Spanish unicorn Aday Mara at the same time.

The Bruins arrive in Spain on the 20th to do several tests here. They will be there until the end of the month to play two friendlies against youth teams and one more against a professional team on a trip between Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. There, other non-American teammates await Mara, such as Kenneth Nwuba, Ilane Fibleuil, Lazar Stefanovic, the Slovenian Jan Vide, who came from the Real Madrid youth academy, or the Nigerian nationalized Turkish Adem Bona, who will be one of his competitors in the inside positions.

2023-08-15 11:02:59
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