The future of Juancho Hernangómez is a mystery. The power forward (27 years and 2.06 meters) has been without a team since last February when he was fired by the Toronto Raptors. Five months of hiatus in which many girlfriends have been placed on him, such as Madrid, who tried to take over his services as soon as he left Canada. The player’s answer was ‘no, for the moment’.
The whites have not been the only ones interested. As soon as the signing of his brother Willy by Barcelona was known, everything indicated that his path would be the same: One of his great wishes is to play with his older brother. The Spanish international was the ideal substitute for Nikola Miroticwhose contract has been terminated unilaterally after the parties failed to reach an agreement on the 22 million euros owed to the Spanish-Montenegrin for the two years he still had with the Catalans.
However, over time, his landing in the Barça team has not materialized and another actor has appeared in the bid. According to EuroHoops, Panathinaikos and Juancho are in advanced talks for the Spaniard to join the new Hellenic project. He half greek sdna It goes further and already closes the negotiation on these terms: a contract of 4.5 million euros for 2 seasons.
The green team, which has also shown interest in Mirotic, is undergoing reform after being eclipsed on the continental scene for the last decade by Olympiacos, its eternal rival. The PAO has not reached the Final Four since 2012an affront for a club with 6 Euroleagues and which has seen its eternal rival reach 6 rounds for the title out of the last 11 possible for a balance of two European titles out of the three it has in its record.
For this reason, the controversial Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, owner of the greens, has spared no expense this summer. After finishing penultimate in the last edition of the Euroleague, launched for Ergin Ataman for the bench and has made nine signings, including Kostas Sloukas from Olympiacos, causing a civil war in Hellenic basketball. Mathias Lessort, Jerian Grant, Luca Vildoza and Kyle Guy They are some of those reinforcements to create a formidable template in which Mirotic would be the icing on the cake.