Puerto Rico National Basketball Team Prepares for World Cup with Home Match Against Dominican Republic

With the intention of leaving a good impression before beginning its tour to the World Cup, the Puerto Rico National Basketball Team will play this Friday at home against the Dominican Republic, a team that played a warm-up game on Wednesday against a university team and had a couple of casualties in the game while another who scored 30 points.

The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico match is at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum of Puerto Rico, at 8:00 pm Everything is sold.

It will be the first warm-up match of the Puerto Rican national team and the only one that will be able to see live by the knowledgeable and attentive Puerto Rican fans who will follow the team throughout seven warm-ups and during the FIBA ​​World Cup, which begins on August 25. based in Manila, Philippines, in the case of the National Team, in addition to Japan and Indonesia for other teams.

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When talking about the match against the Dominican Republic, the national leader, Nelson Colón, said that although it is a warm-up, it is a match that the team plays as a local, and as a farewell to the World Cup and, therefore, it is more important than the lightness of a blank.

Salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa greets Carlos Arroyo and shared a few minutes with him during a practice break on Thursday at the Puerto Rico Coliseum. The artist was there as part of the announcement of an alliance between the administration of the coliseum and the newspaper El Nuevo Día, where it was announced that this medium will be the official medium of the center and will serve as the venue to exhibit photo galleries of different artists or sporting events. covered in the middle. (Ramon “Tonito” Zayas)

“It is not merely a blank. We are at home, in front of our people. We see it as a farewell on the way to the tour of the blanks that we have. We are going to be on a full field and we want to give a show to our people. We are preparing to have a great match. We want the public to know that we have a special group, that they work hard, that they are hungry and with the desire to do great things,” said Colón.

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The Dominican Republic started on Wednesday in the United States with the team from the University of Memphis and won 91-84 in the end, although it had the departures during the game of the athletes Eloy Vargas and Justin Minaya, who are in doubt for the game this Friday.

The Argentine coach of the Dominican Republic, Néstor ‘Che’ García, started against Memphis with Jean Montero, Víctor Liz, Lester Quiñones, Ángel Luis Delgado and Vargas. Also active were Rigoberto Mendoza, Josué Salazar, Gerardo Suero, LJ Figueroa, David Jones, Luis Santos and Minaya.

Quiñones, of the Golden State Warriors, scored 30 points for the Dominican.

The National Team will have its first of six blanks this Friday that they will have en route to the World Cup. (Ramon “Tonito” Zayas)

Enebeá Karl Anthony Towns was not on the roster, who recently stated that he will be active with the Dominican Republic in the World Cup.

Colón said Wednesday that he did not know which players from the Dominican Republic would come to Puerto Rico, but he assured that the rivals are always a great team.

“The Dominican Republic is a great team too, with talent, with many good players. We know each other on and off the field, so we expect a nice game, to the liking of all the people and that we can use ourselves 100 percent”, added Colón.

The National Team travels on Saturday to Las Vegas, in Nevada, United States, to have a second warm-up there, this one on August 7 against the United States team that will see action in the World Cup. Subsequently, the National Team will travel to Italy, Serbia and Taiwan, for several warm-up matches against teams from Italy, Serbia, Lithuania and Latvia.

2023-08-03 21:00:00
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