Initially, D’Alessandro announced that Lomažs was still negotiating with “Virtus”, but a few hours later he announced that the agreement between the Latvian basketball player and the Bologna club had already been reached. Another Italian basketball commentator, Emiliano Carchia, also confirmed Lomaž joining the Bologna club.
Rihards Lomasz and Virtus Segafredo Bologna is a done deal https://t.co/aU54QbBXrB
— Luca D’Alessandro (@DAlessandro_LU) December 26, 2023
“Virtus” takes the third place in the Italian Serie A with nine victories, and the Bologna team of the Euroleague ranks third with a record of 11-5.
The 27-year-old defender Lomaž has been treating a knee cruciate ligament injury since January, which prevented him from participating in the World Cup finals. At the beginning of the season, he was without a club, only participating in one test match as part of “Ventspils”, but in October he joined the Turkish team Denizli “Yukatel Merkezefendi”, where he averaged 14.7 points, 2.8 rebounds in 12 games in 34.7 minutes. and dished out 2.3 assists.
At the beginning of the previous season, Lomaž represented the Spanish club “Casademont” of Zaragoza, but in the fall, before the national team break, the two sides parted ways, as the Latvian moved to the German Bundesliga team Oldenburg EWE. In ACB, he averaged 6.2 points and 1.2 assists in 20 minutes in five matches, while in the Bundesliga, the Latvian averaged 9.1 points and 3.3 assists in 20 minutes in nine matches.
The season before that, the Latvian basketball player played in the Turkish championship, representing the Denizli “Yukatel Merkezefendi” team. Before that, since 2019, Lomaž represented the French club ASVEL of Villers-Bains, which plays in the ULEB Euroleague, spending half the season in the German team “Gottingen”.
Before becoming a legionnaire, Lomažs played for Latvian club “Ventspils” for four seasons, becoming the national champion. Before that, Lomaž developed his skills in the Ventspils “Spars” team, and also played in Jelgava and Jūrmala units in the strongest league in Latvia.
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2023-12-26 19:51:19
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