In the return to training of the Timberwolves There has been a notable absence, one of the players who left the best taste in his mouth before the stoppage due to the coronavirus: the Spanish Juancho Hernangómez. The Madrilenian is not in Minneapolis, the city of the team, because he is recording a movie on these same dates, which makes it impossible for him to rejoin the dynamic with which team he still has a contract with before the season is completely over and the market opens (in which this team-player relationship will have to be reinforced or die).
Gerson Rossas, the president of basketball operations of the Timberwolves, has confirmed the absence of Juancho in the presentation of the NBA In-Market Program (Voluntary trainings in which the players will get into a bubble like the one the other 22 teams have been competing in from July to September). Later a Minnesota communication representative has detailed the situation of the player raised in Las Rozas to the team’s regular informants: he’s in Philadelphia filming the tape Hustle (Netflix), starring Adam Sandler and produced by LeBron James in which it is about the life of an international basketball scout who tries to reach the NBA, regretting being absent from these training sessions because he had given the go-ahead to participate before knowing that these would be mounted to be held on these dates.
The Wolves, who will have the opportunity to choose at number 1 of the 2020 Draft to improve their squad, will have, among others, Karl-Anthony Towns and D’Angelo Russell, his two biggest stars, training for the next few days.
Juancho Hernangómez has a busy few months ahead, as he will be a restricted free agent when the transfer market opens. The Wolves’ idea, something Gerson Rossas himself insisted on in his day, was to keep it. It remains to be seen if this setback in any way affected the amount he would receive on his new contract or the trust Minny’s had put in him.
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