Basketball doesn’t depend on the poster

We spent a weekend full of sports and emotions, mainly in terms of calling hearts from the superclassic in which Mouth He took a head -literally- of difference a River in the Bombonera Naturally the national derby took over the screens.

However, the lights were not only generated in the country, but abroad. Like the ones that lit up Manu Ginobili on his arrival in the Basketball Hall of Fame, a fact that happened on Saturday in Springfield. To the city of the simpsons He was part of the Golden Generation that made the Bahiense stand out.

Poor thing, one of them was late. Pablo Prigioni joined the band on that kind of graduate trip just this Monday, In New York. Although the Cordovan had a good reason: he is the coach of the national team that played and won the AmeriCup against Brazil in Recifefinal defined on the closure by 75-73.

The ones on the poster those who fed the illusions for the future of those who today wear the light blue and white orange, followed the team’s performance by cell phone. There is a witness, a passage of the post that even recently no longer has Luifa Scolawho was also in the United States with those of his generation, and only last year left those of the other, with retirement at the Tokyo Olympics.

Because basketball is that, continuity of the above, although without dependency. Even recovering from inconveniences, as was the departure of Che García in leadership, with the replacement of Prigioniwho although he was an assistant, had to take charge of the team four days before the tournament.

The next thing for the team will be to continue seeking qualification for the 2023 World Cup without the NBA or the “Europeans”, affected in their leagues in November and February 2023. Difficult? Yes. But possible because this “system” works beyond the names -which still exist-, even when those who go directly from the court to the poster.