Nikola Mirotic He finished last season with Achilles tendon discomfort that keeps the club on edge. According to the web Telesportcould be out for six months and Barça have already contacted former Barça player Chris Singleton to be the substitute for the Barça star.
Singleton, who after playing for Turkish Efes was negotiating his transfer to Red Star Belgrade, spent the 2018-2019 season at the Palau Blaugrana. His performance did not live up to the expectations generated by his signing. From the club they deny this information although they recognize that Mirotic finished last season with discomfort in the left Achilles tendon. The power forward is following a treatment, monitored by the club. Although they assure that there is no breakage, they ask for great caution.
If Mirotic’s six months are confirmed, it would be a very hard blow for Sarunas Jasikevicius’s team. The Spanish-Montenegrin power forward, the highest paid player in Europe and who was the MVP of the regular phase of the last Euroleague, had been the only one who had performed at his level at the end of the season.
Mirotic, who did not hesitate to describe last season as a “failure” after falling to Madrid in the final four of the Euroleague and in the League final, he was once again the mainstay of the Barcelona project. Now it will be necessary to see who assumes, in his absence, the leadership of the team. And also not only how long he would finally be out of the courts but how he returns after an injury that is always delicate.
blow to planning
His discomfort is a huge setback in the reconstruction process that the Barcelona section had undertaken this summer. In addition to Davies’ departure to Milan, the Azugrana club has already said goodbye to Roland Smits, Nigel Hayes and Dante Exum. And he also negotiates the departure of Pierre Oriola and Nick Calathes, who still has one more year left and who is agreeing on his departure.
In the high chapter Juan Carlos Navarro has already tied four reinforcements: Nikola Kalinic, Oscar Da Silva, Jan Vesely and Satoransky.
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Vesely is called to be, in the absence of Mirotic, the offensive reference. The ex-NBA arrives on a free transfer from the Turkish Fenerbahce, a club in which he had played for the last eight seasons. In the last Euroleague, Vesely averaged 13.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and a PIR of 18.2. The pivot arrives to replace the departure of Brandon Davies, one of the great disappointments of the final stretch of the last year.
Satoransky, Vesely’s compatriot, will experience his second spell at the Palau. The point guard (30 years old and 2.00) returns after leaving in 2016 for the NBA. Da Silva, a young German power forward (23 years old and 2.06) who arrives from Alba Berlin, and forward Kalinic, who is leaving Estrella Roja to return to the ACB, complete the list of additions waiting to see what happens finally with Mirotic.