Gustavo Ayon Could Have Returned to NBA Each Season during Real Madrid Stint

The former Mexican basketball player Gustavo Ayonwho won 12 titles with Real Madrid, assured this Thursday that he could have been in the merengue team in each of the five seasons return to the NBA.

“I had the opportunity to return to the NBA every year I was in Madridbut I didn’t want to go back because I like European basketball (…) I I don’t watch NBA, I don’t like it (…) I like well-rounded basketball, good basketball, not one in which one player shoots 30 shots, scores 50 points and is a superstar,” he explained in a joint talk news.

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Ayón, one of the best Mexican players in history, played in the NBA between 2012 and 2014, during which time he participated in 135 parties and left an average per night of 4.7 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists.

In the American league he played for the The New Orleans Hornets, the Orlando Magic, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta HawksHowever, in none of them did he establish himself as a figure and when he left the competition in 2014 he signed for Real Madrid, a team that describes him on their official website as “one of the – great centers in history” and that’s it. him in his segment of “Basketball Legends”.

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The ‘Titan’ Ayón praised his former teammate in Madrid, the Cape Verdean Eddie Tavareswho on Thursday won the award for the best defender in the Endesa League for the fourth season in a row.

“Edy Tavares is the strongest defensive player in Spain in the last 6-7 years, he is a player who, despite being tall, has found movement at the top of the basket. “It has a lot of scope to change picture direction.”

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