He barca has announced with an official statement the first signing of the summer. Joel Parra arrives at the culé team after paying the termination clause, of one million euros, this Friday at Joventut de Badalona, the club where he has been trained.
Vine He will be one of the players with whom Barcelona will try to alleviate the loss of Nikola Mirotic, both in sporting and emotional terms. Joel, a Spanish international, occupies a quota place for the Endesa League, another point to take into account.
The 23-year-old player had two remaining on his contract with Joventut. Now he will have four with Barça, until 2027, after the preliminary agreement reached with him. La Penya, in the goodbye message, “It regrets that the player has made this decision despite the efforts he has made to continue to form part of the entity and make him a benchmark player”.
Parra is one of the emerging talents of Spanish basketball. His improvement in the last two seasons has placed him as one of the most valuable nationals on the market. He is, without going any further, one of Scariolo’s heroes in the last EuroBasket and is on the coach’s shortlist for the next World Cup. He was also on Real Madrid’s agenda for a eventual incorporation.
He is left-handed (he changed hands to throw better), he is 2.02 meters tall and last season he averaged 9.6 points and 5.5 rebounds in the Endesa League.
Parra arrives at a Barça in which he will join Vesely and Nnaji in the inside game and with Da Silva on the outside, because he can alternate both positions. Waiting to see what happens with departures, like Kalinic’s, or entries, like those of the Hernangómez brothers or Sikma, for Parra it is a leap in quality, since he will now play in the Euroleague and presents himself as the future of the club.