Nikola Mirotic is the man of the summer in European basketball. One of the best players on the continent seeks accommodation after the ugly termination -still not officially confirmed- by FC Barcelona that led the entire course and up to the title of Endesa League as MVP. His name is linked to almost all projects that want to be something more. Olympia Milanowith that need to go one step further, which he discarded himself, Red Star Belgradewithout stars and ‘pulling’ on the sentimental side, Monaco, ‘new rich’ increasingly powerful, and, especially, it seems that olympiacos.
The Greek team urgently needs a star. Its best player and MVP of the last Euroleague, ‘Sasha’ Vezenkov is going to the NBA -in exchange for some 20 million dollars- and he has neither ‘4’ nor a reference on the court. The name of Mirotic emerges and those of the port of Athens will not ‘walk’ with half measures. according toeurohoops‘, they put six million euros net on the table for the signing of ‘Niko’. Strategic coup.
In the highest paid classification, things don’t change much for Mirotic. To continue being one of the best paid on the continent. He does not reach those 20 kilos for three years that Olympiacos, precisely, offered Josh Childress there in 2008, but endorses the stellar consideration of the player of Montenegrin origin. The Bara, drowned by its economic problems, had to give up its captain. But he is still a fundamental figure.
He closed his stage at Bara with 15.4 points and 4.3 rebounds in the Euroleague and 13.6+4.6 in the ACB. MVP of the ACB final, vital in all the Playoffs of the domestic championship… and that stain, that of the Final Four in Kaunas in which he lived his worst night as a blaugrana. The Bara, then, decided to do without his captain.
It seems certain that those words to Movistar+ in the WiZink park (“it’s my last interview in Spain”) will put an end to Mirotic and his story of love and heartbreak in Bara. Piraeus begins to gain strength as your new destination, in a union between your desire for lifestyle and a winning project.
