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Updated Tuesday, January 9, 2024 – 22:39
The Spaniard played his 1,047th match in white against Bayern, surpassing Felipe Reyes. He arrived in 2007 “pissed off and not playing” at Manresa and soon became essential
Llull, last night, in the match against Bayern.ANNA SZILAGYIEFE
Since this Tuesday, Sergio Llull He is a Real Madrid legend. A legend probably unattainable. Neither in football nor in basketball, no one has ever worn the white jersey more times, 1,047 games already and counting, because at 36 years old one cannot sense his decline. It happened against Bayern, precisely before Pablo Laso (the record coach, 855 on the white bench). “Not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine reaching that figure,” he acknowledged on Sunday in Vitoria after equaling Felipe Reyes.
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It is the improbable story of a boy without much ‘hype’ who arrived from the LEB (Manresa) to a Madrid very far from today. “So I couldn’t imagine such a legend. It’s a lie, I could have won medals. He seemed very technically capable, but…” he admitted to this newspaper some time ago.Go to Plazathe coach with whom he debuted in 2007. “He is the soul of this team. He has given us so much joy…”, he gives up now Chus Mateo about his captain, all records: 18 seasons (as The roll) and 26 titles.
And more indelible moments than any other as well. The last, the most incredible Llull, the launch of Kaunas for the Eleventh Euroleague last May.
1.- Hroe de Kaunas
“The basket of my life.” There were 12 seconds left in the Zalgirio Arena and Madrid had fallen by six against Olympiacos a couple of minutes ago. Another impossible comeback culminated with Llull’s ‘Jordanesque’ basket over the giant Fall with 3.2 seconds left to put Madrid ahead and give them an astonishing title. It was his second shot of the entire final and his only basket. He gave the same, he granted the Eleventh.
2.- ‘Clutch’ in Malaga
The precedent was in 2014, at the Martín Carpena, another in-extremis launch to give a title. Then, the Cup final. He was not the MVP then either, nor did he play a great game against Bara (nine points). But the last one, after Sergio Rodríguez walked the court and found his buddy in the corner, it was for Llull, with his always love for the hot ball, that he usually explained by his “desire to win”.
3.- The baptism in Sant Jordi
Every story has a beginning and Lasismo was inaugurated in February 2012, that Sant Jordi Cup that Real Madrid won 19 years later (since 1993 with Sabonis, Biriukov…). The Menorcan, already insolent, took over the stage (23 points and five assists) along with Carrollruined the favorite Bara and achieved his first MVP.
4.- Show in front of the NBA
That long-haired young man who was preceded by the myth of his 71 points in a cadet game with La Salle Mahón, whom Joan Plaza found “pissed off and not playing” at Ricoh Manresa – “we saw him at Esparraguera, a small team where they sent the rmoras” – won an ACB with Madrid as soon as he landed. But it was a few months later where he left an indelible stamp on the NBA, which he was going to reject in 2015 (that “no” also made him unique). On the visit of the Raptors, all self-confidence was key with 17 points. For the first time the Palace shouted “Llull, Llull, Llull.” A few years later the Thunder also suffered, like the Mavericks of Doncic recently.
5.- The basket of the decade in La Fonteta
Llull is so unique that he invented a shot, the impossible one, the one he always wants, the ‘tangerine’. The peak of those shots that were almost always very high occurred in La Fonteta in 2016. It was in one of his 589 matches in ACB with Madrid, and Llull had already managed to tie with 3.9 seconds remaining. But I say responded to give, what seemed, a certain victory to Valencia. Until the Spaniard, from 21 meters, touching the sky, scored an amazing basket (the basket of the decade, according to the Endesa League itself). Some time ago he had already silenced the taronjas in the 2015 ACB semifinal with a triple over Nedovic and the horn. He would recover the home court factor to win the title and have a perfect season.
6.- The germ of ‘tangerines’
When was the first ‘tangerine’? You have to go back to the time Messina. It was February 2010, before the Italian gave the ‘scare’ and Madrid needed to beat Montepaschi of Siena by eight points to raise their ‘basket-average’. In the third quarter the Whites fell by 11. But with five seconds left, they were five up on the scoreboard and the ball went to Llull, no longer afraid of responsibility: he had scored 17 points in the last 11 minutes. “Now everyone talks about his crazy shots in hot moments. But I already remember that game. This ability, that courage, this is Sergio, talent, energy and above all personality,” he recalled. Lele MolinMessina’s second, in EL MUNDO.
7.- Record against Panathinaikos
Llull’s highest score with Real Madrid came in November 2016, one of the most incredibly productive periods under Mahón. He scored 30 points against Panathinaikos (months later, he scored 29 against Betis in ACB, with seven triples), just a few days before signing his highest rating (37 against his former Manresa). That season he was named MVP of a Euroleague (averaged 16.4 points, 5.9 assists and 16.8 rating), which the whites could not repeat in the Final Four in Istanbul.
8.- The return after the injury
But a nightmare awaited the best Llull, when in the summer of 2017, on August 9, he tore the ligaments in his right knee in a match against Belgium in Tenerife in preparation for the Eurobasket. It took him eight months to return, on April 25, 2018, during a crucial Euroleague match against Panathinaikos (third of the quarterfinal series) in which WiZink received him as heroes are received.
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