Scariolo does not avoid the question about Barça and answers clearly

ByDavid Mitchell

Sergio Scariolo He is one of the names that several reports have linked in recent days with the Barça bench, which has not yet announced its new coach.

However, the Barça club has not yet considered the former Real Madrid coach to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Xavi Pascual. Scariolo, enjoying the Summer League as a spectator these days, says there has been no contact with Barça.

The renowned Italian coach was fired by Real Madrid after completing only the first of his three-year contract and is now without a team.

The white club has hired Pedro Martínez, who was watching the preparation of the Toronto Raptors for the NBA Summer League as he did last year with that of Jordi Fernández’s Brooklyn Nets.

The Catalan coach has already flown back home but the Canadian team has another Catalan on its coaching staff these days in Las Vegas, Pau Ribas, director of the Joventut Foundation.

Paolo Galbiati is another coach who is in the Summer League these days, in this case as an assistant for the Detroit Pistons. Barça is interested in the Italian coach of a Baskonia team who does not seem willing to let Galbiati go just like that.

Several European basketball professionals present in Las Vegas these days, including well-known coaches, confess to being surprised that the Barça club still does not have a coach. mid-July.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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