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More than half an hour had passed since

Scariolo

's children lifted the Cup of all their dreams together and there was still the Malaga band in the middle of the party, with that beautiful anthem, with the players dancing on the Olímpic parquet, accompanied by Half the city, President

López Nieto

, the mayor and even

Juanma Moreno

, president of the Junta de Andalucía.

It will be the Cup for

Ibon Navarro

, a coach who rises exponentially, the one for MVP

Tyson Carter , the one for

Kalinoski

's triples

and the courage of

Osetkowski

... But, above all, it will be the Cup for

Alberto Díaz and Darío Brizuela

, two heroes from Berlin who do not get off the wave.

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The rock and roll of Unicaja wins the Surprise Cup

They speak aloud for the entire Spanish basketball middle class, which this weekend in Badalona also had more nods to the national team, those of

Jaime Fernández, those of Joel Parra

... To that golden momentum in which they lost complexes forever.

Alberto Díaz, who woke up with two triples in the final, was Unicaja's thermometer.

Brizuela, after his exciting exhibition in the quarterfinals in which he revealed his personal drama -his newborn son, who underwent emergency surgery, is in the UCI although he is out of danger-, he went more than a game and a half without scoring afterwards, but in the second part in which Unicaja was unleashed towards the title, the Basque guard reappeared.

"But if we don't win the final, this won't have been worth anything," Alberto Díaz proclaimed 24 hours earlier, with Real Madrid expelled from the Cup by the team against which nothing was impossible in Badalona.

The captain exercising as such, inside and outside.

If he missed two free throws into the abyss, then he stole a ball for Osetkowski to end the night.

«This Cup is very special because of the path traveled.

It means that we are once again among the greats and fighting with them.

For a player from Málaga and the club like me, it means a lot”, assured the point guard, the protagonist of all the spotlights, all the selfies and all the hugs.

«We are where Unicaja deserves.

It is not easy to find a group like this in your career”, Brizuela conceded, excited with the support received these days in that locker room where glory was forged: “Many things cross my mind and I am trying to be as stoic as possible.

Now I just think about being grateful to all the people out there, who help us so much, and being with my teammates.

Because they, Darío and Jaime, had also been key before, in the integration of the nine signings with which

Juanma Rodríguez

, sports director of Unicaja, revolutionized the squad last summer.

You only need to see the joy of Osetkowski, who walks around Malaga with a drone recording the charms of the city for his blog.

"It is the demonstration that things have changed since last year and the team has managed to change the dynamics," summarized

Barreiro

, another boy who will be in the national team from today, at the FIBA ​​Windows against Iceland and Italy.

Without mentioning them, Ibon Navarro, who was celebrating with his son, also talked about them, about that locker room glue, about the secret of his squad.

«In this team what stands out the most is the lack of egos.

We all put the team before individualities.

It's not my merit.

It is having found the right people and that everything fits.

There is a lot of work in the selection of players... and people.

You can't control how people will fit in, but they have fit in very well.

That you get a good recipe, if you are a good cook, it can happen, but without good products, no, "summed up the technician from Vitoria.

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