Valencia’s bid for a place in the EuroLeague playoffs was hit hard by Klemen Prepelic’s injury.

The 30-year-old Slovenian (1.91) did not finish the last game against Granada (80-72) and, the Oranges said, will be out for at least four weeks after sustaining a bruise on the plantaris muscle of his left leg .

Alex Moubru’s side have a tough schedule as they play in Monte Carlo next Friday (3/24) before meeting Red Star in Belgrade, Zalgiris in Kaunas, Virtus in Fodeta and Barcelona in Palau, resulting in Prepelics Absence counts twice. The experienced regional league team hasn’t played much this year, but gave 7.1 points every 18.5 minutes with 50% on the two and especially 3.1 assists (third best passer).

At the same time, he will also miss Liga Endesa games, where Valencia are eighth with a 13-10 record.

At the top of the Endesa league there is a bad fate after the 23rd day of play. Barcelona’s win over Unicaja Málaga set the stage before Baskonia’s double against Real Madrid settled a three-point draw for first place.

Joan Peñaroja’s men beat Chus Mateo’s again at the WiZink Center for the second time in ten days. Only in this case it was not necessary to make a basket in the timeout, but the great performance of Vanja Marinkovic, who came on as a substitute and gave 15 points in 6/11 shooting and 1/3 shooting.

Marcus Howard (19 points) and Max Heidegger (16 points) also did a great job for Baskonia, who managed to do so despite 26 percent from three shots on goal.

On the other hand, neither Gabriel Deck’s 21 points (6/11 shots, 8/9 shots) nor Dzanan Moussa’s action (15 points with 3/4 threes) were enough for Real Madrid, which is now called upon to lead the extra Pressure of living together at the top of the Endesa League.

THE DECADES: 27-15, 45-39, 69-70, 88-95.

real Madrid (Mateo): Hanga 11, Hezonia 4 (0/5 3-pointers, 8 rebounds), Dec. 21 (5/8 2-pointers, 1/3 3-pointers, 8/9 shots, 6 rebounds), Yabusele 2, Musa 15 (3/4 3-points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists), Kozer 7 (1), Rudy 11 (3/5 3-points), Ambalde, Rodriguez 1 (0/3 shots), Poirier 4, Tavares 12 (5/7 2-pointers, 2/4 shots, 10 rebounds).

BASCONIA (Peniaroja): Howard 19 (2/9 3-pts), Marinkovic 15 (2/4 3-pts), Thompson 3 (4 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 turnovers, 5 steals), Costello 6 (0/3 3- pointers), Gentraitis 12 (6 rebounds), Heidegger 16 (2), Raieste 2, Kochar 7 (8 rebounds), Enok 10 (4/11 2-pointers, 2/4 shots, 10 rebounds), Kuruts 5 (1) .

Real Madrid team statistics: 21/40 2-pointers, 8/27 3-pointers, 22/28 shots, 42 rebounds (33 defense + 9 offense), 16 assists, 17 turnovers, 9 steals, 6 blocks.

Baskonia’s team statistics: 28/49 2-pointers, 7/26 3-pointers, 18/25 shots, 40 rebounds (30 defense + 10 offense), 16 assists, 11 turnovers, 14 steals, 7 blocks.

Adai Mara Gomet has been the talk of the town in Spain for the past few days. The promising Spanish basketball giant put in his best performance – see you next time – in Zaragoza’s Liga Endesa Round 22 game against Obradeiro, and reminded a few other prodigies of that.

To be precise, at the age of 17 years and 11 months, Mara was scoring 15 points (3/5 2-pointers, 1/1 3-pointers 6/7 shots), racking up 5 rebounds, making 2 steals and dishing out 3 blocks. He somehow accumulated 22 rating system points and became only the fourth U18 player with 20+ PIR in a league game (since 1983, when that record started). The three others who have done so are Ricky Rubio, Luka Doncic and Usman Garuba.