The first version of the basketball tournament known as NBA Jr. Finals It was played two months ago in the Spanish city of Valencia, and despite the fact that all the participating teams came from Europe, Cuba was represented in the figure of the center Pablo Giovanni Abreu, son of one of the brightest pitchers who went through the National Baseball Series.
At 1.98 meters, the 15-year-old player He was chosen in the All Stars of a fair that brought together many of the best talents in that category in the Czech Republic, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Italy, where his father has lived since 1999.
As a recent report by Cubalite has highlighted, currently the boy He plays in the lower divisions of the Pallacanestro Reggiana clubwhere in the 2021-2022 campaign he added 122 units in 16 games.
In the following season he went for more, and between the Under-15 and Under-17 Excellence tournaments (in addition to the national final of that last category) he achieved 822 points in 52 matches. Neither short nor lazy, the coach Giuseppe Mangone He called him up in the Italian squad for under 16s.
So, behold right now he takes part in the team that takes part in the European sub-16 based in Skopje, North Macedonia, where his team liquidated undefeated the group stage with victories over Montenegro (101-68), Turkey (88-69) and Slovenia (86-74).
So far, his contribution has been 15 points in 63 minutes, and tomorrow he will go out on the court again against Belgium, during the round of 16.
