Chosen the best for the VI Spanish basketball gala

Every summer, the end of the Club competitions Leave its passage to the Selections that, in different categories, they take over these months between league and league, to give the FEB More successes, more joys and more medals. And in between, the federación y MARK They are in charge of choosing and rewarding the best of the season you have just finished.

This summer will already be the VI Spanish Basketball Gala, a number that endorses the enormous health of collaboration between the Successful Feb y MARK. And after the jury meeting, which is the one who chooses the winners, the chosen ones are already known to star in. Among them, Darío Brizuela, Juancho Hernangómezthe MVP of the Queen Cup Aina Ayuso O Maite Cazorla their respective awards as the most prominent of 2024-25 will recount. And there will be a special prize for both Absolute selections of 3×3 and another 'very' special for SERGIO SCARIOLO.

The Spanish basketball gala It is an annual project designed and promoted by the Spanish Basketball Federation y MARK To reward, every season, the best in different categories of our basketball, and this year the Sixth edition. The Gala It will be held next Tuesday August 19 at the Hipodromo de Madrida privileged environment to gather the most pomegranate of national basketball that repeats as a scenario after the last year's success. In the Gala All levels of national basketball will be present, including the selection that two days later will play in Madrid ante Germany In the penultimate preparation party before Eurobasket.

As every year, the headquarters of the FEB He opened its doors to the jury that was commissioned with their votes, in some categories with tight decisions, choosing the best last season. This is the list of winners: Darío Brizuela (national player), Juancho Hernangome (National Player in International Competition), Sergio de Larrea (young player with the greatest projection), Aina Ayuso (national player), Love Cazorla (National Player in International Competition), WhomMartín (young player with greater progression), and 3×3 female absolute and female selections y SERGIO SCARIOLO (Special Prize).

The jury of these Awardsdesignated by the FEB y MARK For this Sixth edition of the Spanish Basketball Galathey formed it: Elisa Aguilar (President of the Feb), Juan Ignacio Gallardo (brand director), Santos Moraga (President of the Madrid Basketball Federation), Óscar Graefenhain (General director of the Feb), Antonio Martín (President of the ACB), José Asensio (Association Clubs of the Endesa Women's League), Juan Luis Soto (CSD Cabinet Chief) Alfonso Reyes (President of the ABP), Lucila Easter (President of the AJUB), Luis Manuel Sancha (President of AEBA), Joan María Gavaldà (President of the AEEB), Jesús Sánchez (Brand) and Jorge Quiroga (Mark).

The winners

Best National Player

Darío Brizuela (Barcelona)

In a complicated year for his team for the many very important casualties he had, Darío Brizuela took much more than a step forward. It actually became one of its great leaders, of the referents in attack and defense, life insurance when things were worse. In the Euroleague, Brizuela played 36 games, none of them as a starter and still managed to achieve an average of 10 points per game, only behind Kevin Punter and Jabari Parker. In the Endesa League, Brizuela achieved 9.6 points, again among the most prolific in his team, and also one of the best national scorers. His role has been more important in his team and will also be the selection, where he will be one of the referents of the Scariolo team in the next Eurobasket.

Best National Player in International Competition

Juancho Hernangome (Panathinaikos)

Although collectively Juancho Hernangómez collected less joys than last year, especially in the Euroleague, personally for him has been a formidable year. After a complicated landing in a team like the Panathinaikos and with a coach like Ergin Ataman, Juancho has established himself as one of the struts of a team full of stars. In the maximum club competition, the Madrid has started in 27 of the 40 games he played achieving 10 points and 7 rebounds in the 27 minutes played per game. It was the third best scorer of the Pao, above Osman Yurtseven or Kostas Sloukas, and the leader in rebounds. With 15.3 average valuation it was only surpassed by Kendrick Nunn and Mathias Lessort. His best moment lived him against Anadolu Efes on April 22 with 20 points, 16 rebounds and 40 valuation. The improvement in numbers, performance and importance in the workforce compared to the previous year has been extraordinary.

Best National Player

Aina Ayuso (Hono Global Jairis)

She was the leader of one of the most wonderful miracles of Spanish (and world and world) basketball in recent years when the Jairis Global Hozono reached the glory winning the Queen's Cup against all prognosis. The Jairis was one by one to all the favorites, not only in each game, but to the title, such as Valencia, Girona and Avenida. Ayuso's performance in the three clashes was spectacular, with 6 points and 10 rebounds against Valencia, 21 points and 11 rebounds against Girona and 13 points and 9 rebounds in the final. His cup was simply sublime and earned him the MVP, which is also part of the story. Ayuso averaged 9.6 points and 5.4 rebounds in the regular league to help the Jairis be fifth in the regular league of the Endesa Women's League, and has put a touch of gold to his season winning the silver with the women's team in the Eurobasket 2025 with a star participation.

Best National Player in International Competition

Maite Cazorla (USK Praga)

The Palmas player has experienced enormous growth this season, being crucial in the Usk Prague team that was proclaimed Euroleague champion beating the favorite Fenerbahce in the semifinals and in the final to the Turkish Mersin. The Canarian finished the competition with 6.8 points and 4.6 assists per game. Cazorla was going to be one of those chosen by Miguel Méndez for the Eurobasket team but had to lose because of a problem in a knee.

Young player with the greatest progression

Sergio de Larrea (Valencia Basket)

Winning a hole in the talented Valencia template this year, it is already enough merit. Having shone in it to the point of having arranged more than 12 minutes per game and having become a regular in the rotation of the outer game of Pedro Martínez. Larrea finished the regular league with 5.6 points, 2.1 assists and 2.1 rebounds and played with her team the final of the Endesa League after having been in second position in the regular league.

Younger player with the greatest progression

IYANA MARTÍN (PERFUMERÍAS AVENIDA)

In a very talent discipline where to choose, Iyana Martín has shone with her own light in the perfumeries avenue. His great performance in the Women's Endesa League and in the Euroleague at the head of the Salamanca team, has earned him the prize for the greatest progression. But Iyana has shown that it is no longer a promise, but also a reality for the selection where it shone with its own light in the Eurobasket until a disease left it out of combat, reducing the options of the Spanish team. In the Euroleague, Martín signed 10.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists, an extraordinary performance for a player who premiered in this very high competition.

Special Awards

3×3 female team

Although the silver medal of the Paris Games belongs mid -2024, its impact was such that even today we are still talking about it. In addition, on the back of the Games, Vega Gimeno, Gracia Alonso de Armor, Sandra Ygueravide and Juana Camilión hung the gold in the European Cup of the category (the official European), in a grand finale against France. Glas four, and the work of the Feb, have become the best speaker for a specialty that gains more and more adherents in our country.

3×3 male selection

And precisely more followers will win with the triumph of the boys in the male World Cup, where there was still no medal for Spain, and since now it is gold. The boys starred in Mongolia one of the most incredible and almost impossible stories of sport winning a championship they were going to learn to compete in the elite and ended up dominating it. The team formed by Carlos Martínez, Iván Aurrecoechea, Guim Expósito and Diego de Blas demonstrated the winning DNA that the FEB instills to all its players to win a gold that is the history of Spanish basketball.

SERGIO SCARIOLO

The third special prize of the gala is taken by the coach, Sergio Scariolo, whose last service to the Feb be the Eurobasket. Scariolo recently announced his departure from the National Team to move to the Real Madrid bench. The march of the coach, which in its second stage has been since 2015, is a stick for a team that has led to the top with four golds and a bronze European, a silver and an Olympic bronze and a world gold.