The economic crisis of Betis Baloncesto continues to claim important pieces in the basketball structure of the green and white first team. The club officially announced at 4:00 p.m. this Wednesday that center Emmanuel Wembi is no longer part of the squad coached by Bruno Savignani.
Although he is not an undisputed starter in Brazilian coach Wembi’s starting five, he was a player who contributed a lot to the team’s rotation. But the lack of budget to finish the season means that sporting objectives take a backseat and the North American player with a Congolese passport has already terminated his contract.
Wembi, 2.05 tall, arrived at Betis Baloncesto from the Mexican team that controlled YOX Holding, the conglomerate that took ownership of the green and white club after an agreement with Real Betis Balompié that was announced with great fanfare by the two parts, also by the Sevillian entity.
At 25 years old, then, he arrived from Libertadores de Querétaro, which will no longer be able to compete this season due to the search and capture order for Carlos Lazo, its owner and also for Betis, by the Tijuana Prosecutor’s Office.
During his time as a green and white player, Wembi has played a total of 13 games, all of them in the best streak of the team coached by Savignani. His points average rises to 8.7, a figure that is not bad at all if you take into account that he has played 17.13 minutes per game. In addition, he averaged a total of 4 rebounds and one of his main virtues was the energy he injected into the entire team’s game. His two-point shooting percentage rose to 60.8 percent, with 65.7 on free throws. He didn’t attempt any three-pointers.
Wembi joins in this way the previous departure of Branden Frazier and is the way to balance a budget that, as Diario de Sevilla already published a couple of days ago, is absolutely exhausted, according to a source worthy of all credit from the green and white entity. . This means that the squad continues to deteriorate and that it does not even seem certain that the fight to be in the promotion playoffs will continue over time.
Betis Baloncesto’s initial idea was the transfer of Uruguayan Joaquín Rodríguez, its current main star, but the injury to point guard Pablo Marín advised cutting elsewhere and this has been a center, where there are three other alternatives in the squad. In any case, the team’s potential is greatly diminished with the departures of Wembi and Frazier, in addition to the injury of Pablo Marín. In principle, the Betis negotiated with another North American to replace Frazier, but not even this was possible in a club that is definitively leading itself into an increasingly complicated economic situation.
2024-03-27 15:41:23
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