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After taking a break from national team basketball last summer, Lorenzo Brown's upcoming summer may be especially busy.
In the Spanish "Marka" it was reported that the coordinator of Maccabi Tel Aviv and the naturalized member of the Spanish national team informed the members of the basketball association in Spain that he intends to attend the pre-Olympic tournament, which will be held in Valencia between July 2 and 7.
Brown, as I remember, was a significant factor in Spain winning EuroBasket 2022, and "Marca" defined his commitment as "a sigh of relief for coach Sergio Scariolo."
If Maccabi Tel Aviv reaches the playoff final in Israel, Brown will have very little rest and will then join his teammates almost immediately.
Arriving at the Olympic Games to be held between July 27 and August 11, his summer will be even shorter and so will his rest before next season at Maccabi Tel Aviv, where he will still be under contract.
A picture we will see this summer as well.
Lorenzo Brown in the Spain team/GettyImages, Levan Verdzeuli
"This is great news for Spanish basketball, when at the beginning of 2024 there are few national team players who impress for one reason or another," analyzed in "Marca", "in this situation, Brown's talent and direction have a decisive effect. This is an outstanding reinforcement, in light of the fact that the future of Ricky Rubio In basketball it is still not clear."
The article even claims that Rudy Fernandez aims to appear in the Olympic Games for the sixth time in his career.
If he does, he will become the first basketball player to do so (both men's and women's).
In the World Championship last summer, without Brown, Spain was eliminated in the second group stage and therefore its place in the Olympic Games this summer in Paris was not automatically guaranteed.
Spain will host one of the four qualifying routes, with its route containing two houses and three teams in each.
The first two advance to the semi-finals, and only the team that wins the final match will appear in the games in Paris.
La Roja was drawn into a comfortable group with Lebanon and Angola, while the corresponding group in Valencia includes Finland, Poland, and the Bahamas.
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