15min Wednesday evening already wrote about the fact that Athens “Panathinaikos” will buy out the contract of former Žalgiris player S. Francisco, who never got to debut in the ASVEL team.
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Now “Sportando” journalist Alessandro Maggi reports that Madrid “Real” is already targeting another player who agreed with ASVEL this offseason – Armoni Brooks.
The 28-year-old guard spent the last two seasons with Milan “Olimpia” and especially revealed his talent last season, when he averaged 13.1 points per game in the EuroLeague and made as many as 102 three-pointers during the season, shooting them with 41.4% accuracy.
It is said that before signing a contract with ASVEL, A. Brooks was also offered a deal by Belgrade “Partizan” club.
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This summer, more famous names had also agreed with the Villeurbanne club: Germans Nick Weiler-Babb and Daniel Theis, as well as Joel Bolomboy, Patty Mills, and Nate Sestina, who have not yet been officially introduced. According to “BasketNews,” big question marks also hang over all of them.
We remind that the ASVEL club, which planned a budget of as much as 58 million euros, faced financial problems even before the start of the season, when a report by the French league showed that the Villeurbanne organization is guaranteed only about 24 million euros for the upcoming season. This is an amount not much different from last season, when ASVEL failed to reach the minimum salary cap in the EuroLeague and was dragging at the bottom of the tournament table.
The legendary French basketball player Tony Parker was responsible for attracting international investors to the club, and he was also expected to take the head coach position with one of the largest coaching contracts in Europe – about 2 million euros.
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