MADRID, 2 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa, stressed this Tuesday that Lorenzo Brown “has made an enormous personal, physical and sporting effort” to play with the Spanish team at Eurobasket 2022, demonstrating his “commitment” to the Spanish national team.
“One player in particular has made an enormous personal effort, of course physically and sportingly, to be here. Personally as a matter of love, of affection for basketball in our country, of commitment to our team,” Garbajosa assured during the presentation of the Spanish team for Eurobasket 2022.
The leader reported that “during the process to get here” that began “a long time ago” and that “it has not been easy” they have been able to get to know the personal side of Lorenzo Brown. “It has allowed us to meet a close, affectionate, ambitious person with a very special affection for our basketball and our national team,” he said.
The president of the FEB also wanted to highlight the players “with a gigantic commitment who have even been injured waiting to be able to speed up the options of being in the championship”, such as Usman Garuba and Alberto Abalde, although for both he will prevail “by Of course his health.”
Finally, the former player defined the team that will go to this Eurobasket as “a renewed team, with five world champions and with a hard core of players that during the ‘windows’ process, as was foreseen in the plans, have won a place to be very important within this team”.