Jasiel Rivero and Javier Justiz two Cubans who shine in Spanish basketball

January 25, 2021

Jasiel Rivero and Javier Justiz contributed today to their teams' victories during day 21 of the Endesa League basketball tournament in Spain.

The Havana-born power forward Rivero contributed eight points and three rebounds in Hereda San Pablo Burgos's 14th success, 81-75 over UCAM Murcia, to solidify its position in fifth place of the best second-tier league of that sport in the world.

The Caribbean player did not start and only remained on the court at the Palacio de los Deportes de Murcia for 21:13 minutes, surely in accordance with his recovery process from bursitis in his left shoulder.

The Santiago-born center Justiz in just over 16 minutes on the court at Arena Bilbao scored four points and grabbed two rebounds in his team Casademont Zaragoza's victory 96-73 over RETAbet Bilbao.

For the Caribbean player it was his first game in the 2020-2021 league season with the Aragonese team. The Cuban player is gradually integrating after being absent for 11 months due to an injury and rejoining last December in a Basketball Champions League of Europe match.

Of other contracted Cubans, in Argentina the player from Espíritu Santo Yoanki Mensía has had greater participation in the recent outings of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia due to the absences of several of its regular players.

This Saturday he was his team's leading scorer with 14 points, in addition to getting nine rebounds although he could not prevent the 60-63 defeat against Platense, which reached its sixth consecutive victory at the Héctor Etchart stadium in Buenos Aires.

There, also Cuban, the player from Avilés Pedro Bombino, had no participation in the Gimnasia y Esgrima roster.

This Friday the 22nd in another European country, the also Havana-born Karel Guzmán had his best performance in the Romanian national tournament with his 14 points in U-Banca Transilvania Cluj Napoca's victory, which leads undefeated with a record of 10-0.

Guzmán with those points scored in the 93-78 smile against Pitesti reached an average of 10.3 per game.