Cuban basketball players continue scoring baskets with their clubs

December 11, 2021

Cuban players Jasiel Rivero and Yoanki Mensía returned to action with their clubs in foreign basketball leagues, which have a full schedule in the final month of 2021.

Rivero, a member of Valencia Basket in Spain, returned after the World Cup qualifying window for the Americas with games in the Liga Endesa of the Iberian nation and the Eurocup.

His reunion with the Spanish event tasted good after scoring 14 points and capturing five rebounds, a contribution that did not prevent the fifth loss for the Taronjas 87-88 when visiting Urbas Fuenlabrada.

According to JIT, the Havana power forward did not spend much time on the court in the 81-67 victory over the Italians from Umana Reyer Venecia. In 5:26 minutes at the Palasport Taliercio he only scored one point and grabbed two rebounds.

With that result the Valencia team has a 4-2 record and sits third in Group B of the European circuit.

Rivero and his team will continue their schedule on the 12th against Mombus Obradoiro on matchday 13 of the league, and before the end of the year they will play two more games in each of the tournaments.

Here in the Americas, the player from Sancti Spiritus Mensía with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia and the player from Avila Pedro Bombino with Unión de Santa Fe, likewise have a lot of activity in Argentina's National League.

Mensía stood out with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds in the 60-58 victory over his compatriot Bombino's franchise. The winners now sit fifth in the standings and the losers in 15th place.

Also in Europe, the Havana player Karel Guzmán integrated well with U Banca Transilvania Cluj Napoca, as the second best on offense, scoring 15 in the 107-75 victory over Rapid to maintain an undefeated record for nine games in Romania's National League.

Guzmán has two commitments remaining in December in the local competition and a couple in the Champions League of that continent, concluding the group stage in which they lead Group G with a 3-1 record.