Basketball

Splitter, 41, led the Portland Trail Blazers as interim coach in the 2025-2026 season and got his team into the play-offs. The former Brazilian Bulls player replaces Billy Donovan.

The Biscayan coach, who has won two Champions Leagues and played a King's Cup final at the head of the Canary Islands team, and nine at the ACB play offs, said that "in life you have to know when your time is coming to an end."

On Sunday, the Valencia Basket won the\u00A0ticket for the final of the Endesa League by also winning the third semi-final match (75-87) against the Asisa Joventut in Badalona, with all the victories and the pass to the final, thus facing Barcelona.

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The New York franchise defeated the San Antonio Spurs in a match that ended with a score of 90-94.

Barça has qualified for the final of the Endesa League after winning the third semi-final match La Laguna Tenerife l (76-85). His opponent will emerge from the qualifying match between Valencia Basket and Asisa Joventut.

The Vitorian will replace Milan Tomic, the coach who took over the team at the end of May, and will have his first experience as a coach outside Spain.

Despite the fact that the Vitorian coach still has a year's contract in place, he leaves the Malaga club after becoming the most successful coach of recent years.

The Guipuzcoan team has announced the signing of the Catalan play, which Capel made a few days ago at the age of 24 and is 1.85.

The Catalan player arrives in Vitoria after playing for the Joventut.

Bilbao Basket player Melwin Pantzar says goodbye to the club after three seasons with men in black.

Kosner Baskonia coach Paolo Galbiati has acknowledged that after losing to Asisa Joventut in the Endesa League play-offs, it has been "the most difficult season" of his life.

Kosner Baskonia fell to the Asisa Joventut on Sunday (88-96) and was eliminated from the Endesa League play-offs.

The team he leads from Paolo Galbia has not been able to command at home, and with his second defeat he has been eliminated from the Endesa League play-offs.

Paolo Galbiati's team has made a bad start and paid for the rest of the game, so the playoff will be decided on Sunday at the Buesa Arena.

Paolo Galbiati's team, the King's Cup champion, has taken a step forward to reach the semi-finals and has the chance to get the ticket on Friday at the Olímpic Pavilion in Badalona. Important men like Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot have appeared at the key moment for the Alaveses.

Galbiati's men have achieved a 21-5 partial in the final leg of a very physical encounter in which the contribution of Eugene Omoruyi and Matteo Spagnolo has been key to overcoming the Joventut's defense.

The Surne Bilbao Basket has lost its first quarter-final match of the Endesa League against the Valencia Basket, as the Taronja team has gone back 13 points in just three minutes, despite the great match played by the men in black.