Summary: Hapoel Tel Aviv - Gran Canaria 70:92 (Sport 1)
Maccabi Tel Aviv with a big and important move for the coming years, just before the game tonight (Thursday, 21:05) against Red Star Belgrade.
The Yellow-Blues announced that they signed Lorenzo Brown to a new contract, which will keep him at the club until 2025. Brown's original contract was until 2024, and it included a relatively comfortable exit clause this summer.
According to reports, Real Madrid planned to exercise the clause and tried to sign Brown recently, but in the end he tied up his future with the club.
Maccabi and Brown entered into talks last month about extending his contract after the Yellows realized that it is very possible that the player will use the exit clause he had with his province at the end of the upcoming season, when many teams in Spain are showing interest in him in light of his Spanish citizenship.
The club entered into talks with him and his representatives who arrived in Israel, and finally managed to reach an understanding with him, while upgrading his salary to be 5 million dollars for the next three seasons.
Big news for the Yellows, just before the important game.
Brown signs the contract (photo: official website, courtesy of Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Brown earns about $1.1 million in his current contract.
The fact that the team decided to give him a three-year contract at his age was the step that, for him, made him waive the summer exit clause from the team.
In Spain he could have earned higher sums, but it is doubtful that he would have received such a long contract.
Brown (31, 1.96) came to Maccabi Tel Aviv this summer from Russian Kazan after previously playing successfully in the Euroleague for Red Star Belgrade and Fenerbahce.
At the same time as his arrival, he received Spanish citizenship and led the Spanish national team to win EuroBasket 2022. At Maccabi he became the real home owner from the beginning of the season while recording record numbers for him in the EuroLeague where he averaged 16.6 points and 6 assists per game.
In the last few weeks he was injured in his ankle and he may return to the team's squad tonight for the game against Red Star Belgrade.
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