He Hall of Fame or Basketball Hall of Fame had a historic page in 2023 with the entry of Pau Gasol and now can be added to three more legends of Spanish basketball who also left their mark on NBA and WNBA: Jorge Garbajosa, Juan Carlos Navarro and Amaya Valdemoro.
Garbajosa, Navarro and Valdemoro is nominated by the International Committee – different from the one that selected Gasol and challenges the great legends of the North American league – in 2024.
Garbajosa, current president of FIBA Europe, after presiding over the Spanish Basketball Federation for several years, moved from the NBA between 2006 and 2008 with the Toronto Raptors, choosing in the ideal rookie quintet of the 2006-2007 season. With the national team, the power forward won the 2006 World Cup and the 2009 EuroBasket and was third in the 2001 EuroBasket and second in Beijing 2008 and EuroBasket 2003 and 2007.
At club level in FIBA n Multipurpose He won the ACB League with Unicaja Málaga in 2006, the Copa del Rey with Unicaja Málaga and Baskonia, the Italian league and cup with Benetton Treviso and the European Cup Winners’ Cup with Baskonia. He was in the ideal quintet of the 2006 World Cup and was MVP of an ACB final, a Copa del Rey and a Coppa Italia.
Navarre, one of the best shooters FIBA has seen in its history, played the 2007-2008 NBA season with the Memphis Grizzlies. His successes were with Spain, with whom he won two EuroBaskets, a World Cup and two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Olympics among other podiums, and with Barça Basket, with whom he won eight ACB championships, seven Copas del Rey, two Euroleagues, one Coraç Cup and five Spanish Super Cups.
The bomb He was EuroLeague MVP in 2009, EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 2010, EuroLeague All-Quintet from 2000 to 2010 and 2011 to 2020, EuroLeague Top Scorer in 2007, League MVP. 2006 and EuroBasket MVP in 2011 among other individual awards.
ValdemoroThe best Spanish basketball player in history, he played in the WNBA between 1998 and 2000 with the Houston Comets and won three championships in the league. With the Spanish National Team, she was Eurobasket 2013 champion, third in the 2010 World Cup (top scorer of the tournament) and also bronze in Eurobasket 2003, 2005 and 2009, as well as runner-up in Eurobasket 2007 where she was the MVP of the tournament.
She won the Euroleague in 1993 with Dorna Godella, was the champion of the Spanish league eight times, won the Queen’s Cup nine times and was also the champion of Russian basketball. He retired in 2013, after the Eurobasket final.
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He international candidate process for the Hall of Fame It is different from that of the North American committee with which Manu Ginobili or Pau Gasol recently entered.
He international committee he has his responsibility nominate different players each year and choose one to enter annuallywith direct selection process in which no other committees intervene and no different rounds of voting take place.
For this reason, Garbajosa, Navarro and Valdemoro share the nomination other FIBA legends several decades agolike Mirza Delibasic, Andrew Gaze or José Piculin Ortiz.
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On the evening of December 25 and the night of December 26, five Christmas games were traditionally held as part of the NBA regular season.
The most important match of the match day was played in Oklahoma, where the Thunder hosted San Antonio.
The home team started the game better and were ahead for most of the first quarter, but they missed a move 0:11 into the quarter, allowing Spurs to take the lead 41:36. Oklahoma was unable to take the lead after that, but San Antonio maintained its lead by keeping the game under control and eventually won 117-102.
The Spurs have won all three games against the Thunder this season, while Oklahoma has lost just two of the other 28 games.
The most productive player of the match was Fox, who brought 29 points to San Antonio, while Vembanyama also scored a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
The Lakers played Houston at home and suffered a crushing defeat.
The fate of the match was decided in the first quarter, when the Rockets won by 12 points (25:37). Afterwards, they increased their advantage by completely controlling the course of the match and eventually won with a score of 119:96.
For Houston, Thompson scored 26 points and Shengyun had a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Denver and Minnesota closed out game day.
The first half of the match ended in a draw. Neither team managed to take a lead of more than 9 points, and Denver entered the big break with a 2-point lead at 57:55. In the third quarter, the Nuggets made an attack of 6:0 at the beginning and 10:2 in the middle, reaching a 16-point lead, and at the end of the quarter they were ahead +15 – 90:78. The Timberwolves did not give up and made a 16:2 move midway through the fourth quarter, reaching a lead of 107:108. This gave fans a tense ending; Edwards hit a three-pointer 2 seconds before the siren, sending the game into overtime at 115:115. And there Jokic played a decisive role and scored 18 points in 5 minutes, allowing the Nuggets to win 142:138.
Jokic scored 56 points in the NBA on Christmas Day, falling just four shy of Bernard King’s record. Nikola also recorded a triple-double with 16 rebounds and 15 assists. Murray had a double-double with 35 points and 10 assists.
NBA. Regular season. Christmas Day, 25-26 December
New York – Cleveland – 126:124 (23:38, 37:20, 24:38, 42:28)
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14 games of the NBA regular season were played on the night of December 23-24.
“Utah” hosted “Memphis” and in the middle of the second quarter they were ahead by 15 points at 50:65, but then they made a move at 17:4 and returned to the match 67:69. In the third quarter, the Jazz managed to take the lead with 71:69 and the game was leveled, but the Grizzlies added points at the end of the quarter and took the lead again with 109:101 and then calmly maintained the advantage with 137:128.
Svyatoslav Mikhayyuk The player, who was in Utah’s top 5 and played 22 minutes, recorded 9 points (4/4 free throws, 1/4 two-pointers, 1/5 three-pointers), 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 1 turnover and 1 foul.
The most productive player of the match was Aldama, who scored 37 points for Memphis, while Spencer also recorded a double-double, adding 11 points and 13 assists.
In the main match of game day, San Antonio unexpectedly defeated Oklahoma.
During the three quarters, there was an even contest in which no team could gain a lead of more than 8 points, and the leader changed 16 times. The fate of the match winner was decided in the fourth quarter, and the 9:0 attack of the home team was effective in this, and then the advantage reached 12 points (98:86). San Antonio then controlled the course of the game and confidently cruised to victory, gaining an advantage of 130:110.
The top scorer of the winning team was Johnson, who scored 25 points, while Castle scored 24 points for Spurs.
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Version Forbes announced its annual ranking of the world’s most expensive sports teams.
NFL franchise Dallas Cowboys, estimated to be worth $13 billion, has led the pack for the ninth year in a row.
While NBA Golden State Warriors ranked second with a valuation of $11 billion, another representative of American football, Los Angeles Rams (10.5 billion), was in the top three.
The top 10, as last year, includes only American teams from the NFL and NBA. There are seven NFL clubs in the top 10 overall, which Forbes analysts attribute to the league’s large-scale television contracts.
Among football clubs, Real Madrid remains the most expensive – the Spanish giant ranked only 20th with a value of $6.75 billion.
Also in the top 50 are Manchester United (24th, 6.6 billion), Barcelona (42nd, 5.65 billion) and Liverpool (48th, 5.4 billion). In total, only four football clubs are represented in the top 50 rankings.
Formula 1 representatives also returned to the list – Ferrari (26th place) and Mercedes (34th).
The 20 most valuable sports teams in the world according to Forbes
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