In 2019 the World Cup was held in China. A competition marked by the worst performance of the United States in a World Cup. In the final Spain deployed a great basketball against a battler Argentina who never had a real chance of winning the game. In the end (95-75) for a Spain that thirteen years later again felt the sensation of winning a World Cup, of being on the cusp of the planet. Ricky Rubio, Tournament MVP
In the ACB of 2019 Real Madrid was proclaimed champion again after defeating a Barcelona that returned three years later to a final, by (3-1). Madrid did not allow the Catalans to win in the capital in the first two games of the final, and then after losing by one in the third, sealed the title with solvency in the fourth game. Campazzo, with a great performance, was awarded with the MVP
The 2019 NBA offered us a final that was sometimes dramatic due to injuries suffered by the Warriors, and historic for Raptors who were proclaimed NBA champions in their first disputed final. The Warriors managed to win two games on Canadian soil, but their impregnable Oracle Arena saw their team lose up to three times to a Toronto led by Leonard, MVP of the final, and with a clear Spanish flavor, with Marc Gasol and Ibaka on the track, and Scariolo on the bench, touching glory. In the end (4-2) for Toronto. Without Durant, who only played 12 minutes to re-injure himself, with Thompson in the end also out of action for the effort, and a half gas Cousins, the Warriors lost the chance to win the ring for the third consecutive time
The EuroLeague offered us yet another year, an exciting competition. With 30 days with fight until the end especially to enter the playoffs, where the last places were not decided until the last day
Madrid hosted the 2019 Cup, and lived one of the most southern cup finals in the history of the competition, where the referees, in a final between Barcelona and Real Madrid, chained mistakes, even having the instant-replay to check the last move, to take the final to the limit, with Barcelona as the final champion
In the 2019 EuroCup the title went to Valencia Basket, after beating ALBA Berlin (2-1) in the final. Will Thomas, was the MVP of the final series
The 2018 NBA offered us the usual tone of recent years, a final between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the fourth consecutive. The Warriors started as favourites and really fulfilled their condition to win with great authority and sweep away LeBron and company by (4-0). Golden State led again by Durant, second MVP of the finals consecutively, demonstrated that they are the power established in the NBA with three titles and four finals in the last four seasons
In the ACB 2018 Real Madrid dominated the competition again after a year of parenthesis. The whites culminated with a title a great season that really dominated from start to finish. In the final they beat Baskonia, who played a final after eight drought, by a clear (3-1) and after winning two games in Vitoria
Second year of the new Euroleague, with the 16 teams playing and again there was excitement until the final days. With 30 games ahead there were winners and losers, and unlike the first year in this format, the squares to the playoffs were decided to several days for the end
In 2018 the Cup was held in Gran Canaria, where we lived the tight victory of Barcelona, surpassing in a final of maximum tension to Real Madrid, by (92-90). Heurtel, like the following season, was crowned MVP of the tournament
At the 2018 EuroCup, the title went to Turkey’s Darussafaka, who beat Lokomotiv Kuban 2-0 in the final, with Scottie Wilbekin leading the way
