• Selection Juancho runs out of Games

Juancho Hernangómez's farewell, just 48 hours after the national team's debut in Rio, was "disappointing."

Jorge Garbajosa could

not find a more forceful word

to explain, with a detail like never before seen, what happened.

Day by day, name by name.

Again, an NBA franchise torpedoing Spain.

The president of the Federation himself knows it well from his own experience.

The bomb went off on the afternoon of the first Olympic Saturday. The Wolves, who had carefully monitored the process after the injury to

his left shoulder

(Acromioclavicular dislocation grade 4-5, which later dropped to grade 3, that is the key) of Juancho against France in a friendly in Malaga, now prevented him from participating in the games. In his place, Xabi López Aróstegui was traveling - it will not be easy for him to play against Japan on Monday - who had returned to Spain after the duel in Las Vegas against the USA Team.

Beyond the sporting drawbacks, as

Scariolo

already described

Juancho as "irreplaceable", there was anger over the forms. "Right at the limit of the closing of the registrations of the players who will participate in these Games, we have been forced to replace Juancho by López-Aróstegui. The facts are clear and allow few interpretations: Minnesota Timberwolves, the franchise to the that Hernangómez's sports rights belong, he officially communicated to us on July 23, that is, the day before yesterday, that he did not authorize the player to participate, "Garbajosa clearly stated the facts. Juancho, for example, had participated in the parade on Friday with complete confidence.

The president continued detailing without mincing words about a process already unfortunately experienced in the past.

With his case when he had an ankle surgery and he tried to contest the Eurobasket 2007 -something he did- or, for example, with

Abrines

, sending him back home due to some discomfort during Euro 2017. "The FEB has tried to exhaust all the avenues diplomats, both with the franchise, as well as with the player, his representative, with the FIBA ​​and the NBA to try to reach a dialogue and satisfactory solution for all parties. Unfortunately without fruit, "he explained.

"We correct the diagnosis"

Because the 'dizziness' has been considerable. Following the injury in Malaga on July 8, Juancho was immediately ruled out. Nobody wanted to take a risk. But soon it was seen that perhaps yes, as

Pau Gasol

advanced

shortly after. "We corrected this diagnosis until his medical discharge was achieved when the judgment of the specialists, the subsequent tests and the player's sacrifice made it clear that he would be ready to compete," the president explained.

Who did not hesitate to personalize the culprit. "I want to clarify that I focus this matter on the Minnesota franchise, and within it, on its General Manager,

Gersson Rosas

, in whom we have not found either the willingness to agree, nor the respect for the criteria in which the professionals of the Medicine and physiotherapy on both sides had been unanimous. Whether for contractual, business, or future market options reasons, Mr. Rosas has decided that Juancho will not be discharged, "he concluded bluntly.

The most flagrant events occurred on July 18. In Las Vegas, a meeting was convened with the player, the three physiotherapists, the physical trainer and the national team doctor, as well as the Minnesota physiotherapist and, by videoconference, two professionals from the Wolves medical services (the manager and the shoulder traumatologist). In addition to the player's agent,

Igor Crespo

.

There the explicit yes of the franchise was obtained, as explained from the FEB.

"At the meeting, the physiotherapist had the player perform exercises for the franchise doctors to see first-hand, who congratulated the team of the national team, because they said that the recovery was very good. They affirmed that they appreciated a recovery complete mobility, and that they saw that he was performing the exercises proposed to him in a natural, harmonious way, with symmetry in gestures, without mechanical or pain limitation. They stated that Juancho could play the games of the Games, as they answered to an express question in that sense from Igor Crespo ".

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