Valencia Basket announces the signing of Nikola Mirotic

He Valencia Basket He remains determined to establish himself in the elite of Spanish and European basketball. After a dream season in which they debuted as a Final Four team, the Levantine team wants to aspire to everything and to do so they have looked for high-level players.

The last of them is, neither more nor less than Nikola Miroticwith who has reached an agreement for one season after leaving Monaco, as revealed by the club in a statement.

The former Real Madrid, Barcelona and Monaco player recorded a video at the Manises airport. “Hello Valencia, they told me that you are looking for a ‘four’ so… here I am“he noted.

At 35 years old, Mirotic returns to the Endesa League after three seasons in Italy and Monaco to begin a new stage in Spain. Last season in Monaco, the Montenegrin international averaged 11 points and 12.7 rating credits per game in the Euroleague and his arrival will reinforce a weakened internal game after the departures of Braxton Key and Jaime Pradilla.

Mirotic’s record covers 15 titles with clubshaving won the national league three times in Spain and once in Italy and France, two medals with the Spanish national team: a gold in the 2015 Eurobasket and a bronze in the 2016 Olympics and more than twenty individual awards and inclusions in the best quintets of competitions.

We remember that, after finishing his time at Barça in 2023, Mirotic signed a two-year contract with Olimpia Armani Milano in which he won a League (being the MVP of the finals) and a Super Cup, to join in the 2025-26 season the EuroLeague finalist of the previous season, AS Monaco, which he helped win the four titles in contention in French basketball: Super Cup, Leaders Cup, French Cup and French League.

The administrative relegation due to financial problems of the Monegasque team opened the doors to a new adventure that will have Valencia as its headquarters.