Hugo González has ceased to be a Real Madrid player, according to a statement issued Monday by the club. The canterano leaves the Celtics, who last week selected him in the 28th place of the Draft. That will be precisely the dorsal that carries in the most laureate franchise in the history of the NBA.
The 19-year-old eaves and 1.98 meters arrived at the White Club in the 2017-18 season and has passed through all the teams of the quarry, of which it was emblem and greater promise becoming champion of Adidas Next Generation Tournament of the Euroleague in 2023 and 2024 and winning the MVP in the second of those editions.
His conditions and his physique took him to the first team, with which he debuted in 2022 and with which he conquered the last two Endesa leagues, a Copa del Rey and an Endesa Super Cup. This campaign, already as a member of the first template to all purposes, averaged 1.9 points (33.3% in triples), 1.3 rebounds and 1.2 valuation in the Euroleague and 4.5 points (25.0% in triples), 2.2 rebounds and 4.2 of valuation in the Endesa League, in which it was part of the best quintet of young people.
The Celtics want Hugo for now and they see chances. Brad Stevens, general manager of the franchise, acknowledged after the Draft that he had already talked to him and showed himself as a follower of the Spanish eaves: “He has been on everyone's radar for a long time, and we have analyzed him more closely in these last seasons with Real Madrid. winner “.
González has demonstrated in his minutes in Madrid that he can make differences in defense thanks to his instinct, his intensity and a powerful physicist. Instead, you will have to polish aspects in attack, the one that most, the outer shot. Especially since it will arrive in the team that launches the most triple throughout the NBA. “Like any player of his age, he will continue to improve in several aspects, but in the competitive he is already at a very high level. He is a young man with a veteran soul. It has been playing surrounded by adults for a while, and he is doing it in a team full of experience, with players with Past NBA and others of the highest level,” said a hopeful Stevens.
The Spanish eaves crosses the Atlantic this summer but could already do it in the past. It is one of the few young players that the NCAA put on the table a seven -digit contract and preferred to stay in Europe. Hugo decided to continue growing in Madrid this season, but the time has come to leave. The NBA, specifically the Celtics, are something else. It can be tested with the best in the world and embolism more than 14 million dollars for four years according to the draft salary scale. The last great prodigy of the Madrid quarry will wear green.
