Lorenzo Brown (32 years old) has just won the Israeli championship in his first season with Maccabi. There are already 56 Leagues for Maccabi, which has beaten Hapoel in the final (2-1). In the third and final game (94-90) one of the best outside duos in Europe shone once again: Lorenzo and Wade Baldwin each scored 22 points and shared 15 assists between them. Baldwin, formerly of Baskonia, was chosen MVP of the final.
A very positive season ends with a good taste in the mouth for Lorenzo, who has renewed his relationship with Maccabi and who only needed to have more luck in the Euroleague, where his team fell in the quarterfinal playoff against Monaco, in the fifth and decisive game (3-2). Lorenzo Brown, in any case, once again showed that he is one of the best point guards in European basketball: 16.4 points, 3 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 16.1 PIR and presence in the Best Quintet for a player who made his debut with the Spanish National Team last summer, after a nationalization that made a lot of noise, with the enormous success of the Eurobasket won in Berlin. Lorenzo was decisive in the crossings, he entered the Best Quintet of the tournament and played at the MVP levelan award that finally went to his partner Willy Hernangómez.
Brown’s relationship with the Spanish National Team was pTaught to be much more than a patch in a tournament, and the Rockford point guard is in the national team’s plans for the World Cup, in which he also defends the title and which will be played from August 25 to September 10. However, after proclaiming himself champion in Israel, it was Lorenzo himself who questioned his presence with the National Team this summer. This is how the point guard explained it to the journalist Tomer Givati: “I’m not sure, I don’t know if I’ll be in the World Cup with Spain. I’m thinking of not going. It has been a very long season, my body was beginning to suffer, I have pain. Every step I take is like torture. Let’s see how things go in summer…”. ´
Lawrence He averaged 15.2 points, 7.6 assists and a PIR of 15.3 in the Eurobasket. He was decisive in overtime against Lithuania, in the round of 16, and played a great game in the semifinals against Germany: 29 points and 6 assists with 8/10 shooting from two. In the Federation they had him and Ricky Rubio, who was not injured in the Eurobasket, to form an outside couple that would have nothing to envy to practically any other team.