The Basketball King Cup is high competition, but also a continuous celebration to honor one of the most important sports in the world. And with very good criteria, the organization has decided that in the 2025 edition, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canariatribute to five great national players who retired last season is paid tribute.
Sergio Rodríguez, Rudy Fernández (who will not be for his recent paternity), Carlos Suárez and Victor Claver They will be cheered at the break of the quarterfinal duel between Valencia and Gran Canaria, which will be played on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Peros will be Tomás Bellasthe fifth discord, the most applauded by the 11,000 fans of Gran Canaria Arena, because not only celebrates a great career, but also life.
The 37 -year -old base, with 466 ACB games behind them and that until last year played in Fuenlabrada de Second Division, received a hard stick last August, when a diagnosed a Hodgkin lymphomaa type of cancer that manifests in the lymphatic system.
«Last summer, in 2024, they tell me that I have a Hodgkin lymphoma. I have been with very aggressive treatments for five months. Thank God I am already recovered, with the relevant reviews, ‘he wrote in early 2025, a news that has celebrated the entire basketball community, which will make his joy in the duel between Valencians and Canaries effective.
Although Flatlas does not have the curriculum of the four legends with which he will share tribute, he has been a player who, in addition to profitable, has always had a wide charisma inside and outside the playing land. He began his career in the quarry of real Madridin which he militated until 2008, at which time the Cáceres signs, step prior to a long career in the ACB.
Gran Canaria, Zaragoza, Fuenlabrada and Murcia were the clubs that defended over 14 campaigns, in which he averaged 6.5 points and 3.2 assists in 22 minutes per meeting. His greatest collective achievement was with the Canaries, with which he was runner -up of the Eurocup In 2015. On Friday the circle will close in the stadium that he enjoyed with his basketball.
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