Every hard Valencia Pre-Olympic (July 2 to 7) for qualification for the Paris 2024 Games What will the Spanish team (men) face? will not count with the player everyone feared and probably the most talented of the same, Lauri Markkanen. The interior of the Utah Jazz and general captain of Finland will be absent from the tournament and his team, always combative, loses many points compared to the favorites Spain, Poland or Bahamas (waiting to confirm which NBAs the Caribbean team can present).
Markkanen, after slowly ‘cooking’ his jump to the elite, is an NBA star. In his first season (after passing through the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers) in the Utah Jazz he scored 25.6 points per game and reported his first presence, in addition to being in the game, in the All-Star. In the current course he scored 23.2, although sportingly His Jazz were out of the game earlier.
“I received a medical evaluation that told me I couldn’t play,” he confessed. Markkanen when suffering from shoulder problems. “Now I trust that the boys will make history in Valencia and in the Games. We have young people willing to take steps forward,” he added.
The candidacy of Finland lowers integers. It should be remembered that they are in the pre-Olympic group that will face Poland and the Bahamas. Poland will call up NBAs like Jeremy Sochan and Malcolm Brogdon has appeared in the pools for possible nationalization. And Bahamas, without knowing their squad yet, could form with players like Ayton, Gordon and they even have the dream of Klay Thompson.
For Spain things change in that Markkanen posed the greatest individual threat, although it will still be a highly complex tournament. “We are in the most complicated moment since 2009,” he explained. Sergio Scariolo after its renewal.
