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"It's over, it's over!" Pau Ribas , one of the most euphoric, could not contain the joy, although there were two minutes left to conclude the final. The bench was a hotbed of hugs. Claver , with his visibly swollen nose, stroked Ricky's beard, which had a heavy blow to his eye. Rudy cried. Juancho was looking at his family in a background of the gallery. The Hernangómez have spent the entire tournament looking for their family.

Veterans were also the most horny when collecting trophies. Rudy and Llull , a network each around the neck, and are already a handful in the collection. For Marc it was the ball of the game. "It's not for me, it's for my children!" He said later. Before he had talked happily with Kobe Bryant on the Wukesong track, also with Manu Ginobili , although the Argentine legend was not so happy logically.

Before leaving for the Shagri-la hotel, where the party was waiting until leaving for the Beijing airport, -Iberia, sponsor of the FEB, chartered a charter that arrives Monday to Spain at 15:50 hours -, the players spoke of happiness and feelings, of memories, of all that that will take after more than a month and a half of living together, more than three weeks of complicated and tired journey through China. «I don't know how many cities we've been to. Ningbó, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing ... », Marc Gasol made accounts among the swarm of microphones, which were waiting for celebrations at least as viral as those he starred at the beginning of the summer at the Rua in Toronto: that bottle of a drink of champagne ...

Willy Hernangómez, upon arrival at the hotel in Spain after the final.

Because yes, he and Scariolo are the hoarders of glory. NBA ring and world title. «I have told Marc that next season we can only do worse», joked the coach, who after remembering Rudy's bad drink, told all his dedications: «To the boys who accompanied us during the Windows, everyone will have their medal I don't know if I'm throwing myself into the pool with that. To my family, for enduring many weeks of absence; also to the coaching staff and the medical staff that have put the team in these conditions. To the Raptors, who have allowed me to be here and continue this mission with the national team and the Federation because it allowed me to live the experience in the NBA. And to all this group of players, because we have found a fantastic chemistry ».

As always, the deepest, the MVP also before the recorders was Ricky . "I dreamed it," said the base, Campazzo's torment in the final and everyone he has faced. And he was not going to leave Beijing without looking at the sky, where Tona had also accompanied him 11 years ago, when he was an imberbe who debuted with the national team. "I dedicate it especially to my father, who has helped me a lot in hard times and I have helped him," he said. «There is always someone following me. I lost my mother three years ago but I know she is behind , pushing me to be better. I know there is no one in this world who has loved me more than her. She always drives me. Even though I am not here, I feel it. I hope you are happy and enjoying it, ”he concluded, excited, looking at the sky again.

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