Bilbao Basket starts the preseason on Monday with 8 friendlies and Baskonia will do so on the 22nd | Saskibaloia
Once the complete calendar of the ACB League was known on Tuesday, the two Basque teams in this competition have already announced their roadmap to get to the start of the domestic competition in the best possible way.
The first to start will be Surne Bilbao Basket. He will do so this Monday in a six-week preseason in which he will play eight friendlies before facing his debut in the ACB League on September 30 at Joventut.
The first of those games will be on August 27 in Laredo against Porto (6:00 p.m.). Later, from September 1 to 5, Jaume Ponsarnau’s team will meet in the Portuguese city of Paredes to play the ‘Paredes International Cup’.
There the men in black will face Porto again (day 2, 9:00 pm), the English Sheffield Sharks (day 3, 9:00 pm) and the Ukrainian Budivelnyk kyiv (day 4, 6:00 pm).
On the 10th Bilbao Basket will face the Río Breogán in Lugo (6:00 p.m.) and on the 17th and 18th they will play two games in Torrelavega in a tournament in which Carplus Fuenlabrada, San Pablo Burgos and the local Grupo Alega Cantabria will also participate.
Lastly, at a venue and date yet to be determined, they will play the final of the Euskal Kopa in which they will defend the title they won last year.
The Bilbao squad will start the preparation work without Ludde Håkanson and Denzel Andersson, who “will join at the end of August after finishing their concentration with the Swedish team” or Emir Sulejmanovic. The interior Bosnian will arrive in September when he concludes his participation in the Eurobasket.
In the pre-season, the group will be reinforced by homegrown players Aiert Velasco, Asier Fernández, Elvis Ude, Unai Barandalla and Iñigo Betoloza.
Baskonia, a week later
For its part, Saski Baskonia will start its preseason a week later, on August 22. The Barça players will land in Gasteiz on Sunday 21 after the holidays and rest time to prepare for an “exciting” course, as the club has admitted.
On August 22 and 23, the Baskonia squad will carry out the different medical tests at IMQ, the official medical insurer of Saski Baskonia, at the same time that they will carry out the relevant physical tests in the Bakh sports city.
on Wednesday, August 24, when Joan Peñarroya will start training and preparing for the “new and exciting” season. Cazoo Baskonia will play up to five friendly matches during the preseason before starting the official competition on Friday, September 30 against Unicaja in Gasteiz.