Unicaja last hour – Valencia Basket, live
It officially starts the 2025-26 season with the Endesa Super Cup dispute, the prelude to the Endesa League that will begin next weekend. It is the most important appointment of the preseason in which the first official title of the campaign to which four teams that play the semifinals in the MartÃn Carpena Pavilion of Malaga are put into play: Unicaja-Valencia Basket (18.00 h) and Real Madrid-La Laguna Tenerife (21.00 h), both matches that can be seen in open por Dazn, the television platform that has been ACB and premieres in this Super Cup.
Unicaja, which plays the first semifinal, is the current champion of the competition. A year ago, its great triumphal season began precisely winning the Super Cup that was held in Murcia. It is the only title of the Malaga in this competition and want to repeat. The Intercontinental Cup, which can be tied for tiredness for the second consecutive Cup for the second consecutive year. And the curse of the host also chases them: they have never won a title in front of their fans.
In front, a very ambitious Valencia in a very special season. The premiere of his brand new Roig Arena coincides with the return of the team to the Euroleague and with the formation of an extraordinary squad that seeks to complete what was not achieved last year: a title. Although the taronjas dream of larger dimensions, starting winning the Super Cup in MartÃn Carpena would be sensational for them.
The preseason wanted two Unicaja players to change teams to Valencian lands, Kameron Taylor and Yankuba Sima. The escort is one of the great Valencian bets this year, it is undoubtedly one of the most complete players in the Endesa League. The pivot cannot play for injury. But James Webb III, former Taronja, will do it in the unicaja ranks. In Valencia, Jean Montero, Xabi López-Aróstegui, Brancou Badiio or Ethan Happ will not be due to injury.
The coach of the Taronjas, Pedro MartÃnez, does not want this plague of injuries to serve as an excuse for today's meeting: “Surely we have five players to compete and with what we have we will give our maximum. There is little desire to talk about those who are not. The casualties are not an excuse,” he said. “We have been training with illusion, wanting to play a good role. We will try to win and I think we are going to win,” MartÃnez said in a message of the most optimistic addressed to his players and his hobby.
For his part Ibon Navarro, Unicaja technician, does not trust Valencia Basket, which he sees as a very powerful set despite the absences: “Valencia arrives as a rocket today are one of the two best templates in the league and has a way of playing, with those hallmarks that make the players can look even more. It has been the most coral and brilliant team of the preseason.”
These lighted compliments to the rival are a message to theirs so that they leave plugged and cautious, because Ibon Navarro blindly trusts in their team: “We lack basketball level to compete with them, but ours is a group that when the competition arrives takes out an extra, that gene that the team has been developing these three seasons and we grab us at that. At the level of basis. party, a competition. “
