The NCAA season is about to begin. In fact, the teams will begin to play tournaments and friendly matches next morning, as is the case with UCLA, which will face Cal State Dominguez Hills, before officially starting the course on November 6 against Saint Francis.
A game in which it is still not known whether Aday Mara will be there, one of the great sensations of the tournament this season and one of those responsible for the fact that this season many Spanish fans are going to be more aware of the university tournament than of the NBA in which At the moment, only the presence of Santi Aldama stands out.
The NCAA bureaucracy is responsible for the uncertainty surrounding Mara, one of the great future jewels of Spanish basketball, who does train normally and is just another student at the Los Angeles center. However, the Bruins still do not know if they will be able to count on the Spaniard due to the legal dispute he has with Casademont Zaragoza regarding his rights.
The club sued the player for breach of contract and demanded 560,000 euros (what the clause stipulated according to the Zaragoza team) as compensation, while the player, who did not have a professional player record, alleges that he did not sign the contract with the change of category, salary and clause. For its part, the club refers to the contract signed in September 2020.
Without any agreement between the parties, Now we have to wait for the judicial resolution of the lawsuit, which may cause the delay of the premiere of Mara with the Bruins jersey, the most successful team in NCAA history.
“Unfortunately we don’t have a set time to put an end to this, but we hope it can be in the debut”
Mike Cronin UCLA Coach
“I know there are people working on that legal aspect,” said Mike Cronin, coach at the prestigious University of UCLA. “We are also working with that possibility and I can say that everyone will be ready for the premiere. Unfortunately we do not have a set time to put an end to this, but we hope that it can be at the debut.”
Mara is one of the players who has raised the most expectations at UCLA in recent seasons. Qualified as one of the best inside players by his own coaching staff, who highlights Mara’s passing ability and his good hand in outside shooting. The handy center is one of the candidates for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award, awarded to the best interior player it’s from the season.
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Bruins’ freshman Aday Mara has been recognized as one of 2⃣0⃣ student-athletes to the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award watch list, honoring the nation’s best center.
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Mara is the icing on the cake of the UCLA squad. The team, coached by Mick Cronin, has become an ideal destination for international players. Playing alongside Mara will be the Frenchman Ilane Fibleuil and the former Real Madrid player Jan Vide, who are some of the attractions of the university team. They have to add Lazar Stefanovic, one of the team’s stars, who has just transferred from the University of Utah, and the Turkish Berke Buyuktuncel, who wreaked havoc in the last U-19 World Cup, winning bronze with Turkey.
Participating in the NCAA opens the door to having greater monitoring by NBA franchise scouts, one of Mara’s objectives. An increasingly closer goal as pointed out by league analysts, who place the young Spanish player as number 13 in the next draft in which Izan Almansa is already listed as number 8.
Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of basketball his profession. Graduated in Humanities from the Carlos III University and with a Master in Journalism, he began working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, including the closing section. In 2011 he began as an editor on the official NBA website in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the United States. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, two World Cups and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude ACB playoffs, NBA and Euroleague Final Four games. He has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis. …
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