Liga Endesa begins for BAXI Manresa at home facing Unicaja
Yankuba Sima and Ryan Toolson are out for the first day in which a great team arrives in the Nou Congost, led by Luis Casimiro.
This Wednesday the Endesa League returns to the New Congost. Start of domestic competition with a great rival at home. Ryan Toolson, still taking on a competitive pace, and Yankuba Sima, with a knee injury on his right leg this week, will not be on the first day, where a great atmosphere is expected in the New Congost to receive one of the big ones of the competition.
BAXI Manresa begins with a complicated rival, but Manresa is keen to see basketball again after the great last season. New players, and many challenges ahead of a first day that will feature a special presentation before the game.
For his part, Unicaja has traveled this Tuesday to Bages, where tomorrow morning he will train before the match at 8:00 p.m. The team of Luis Casimiro has been reinforced with revelations such as Deon Thompson or Volymir Herun, and already had experienced men like Jaime Fernández, Alberto Díaz or Carlos Suárez.
** Yankuba Sima injury **
The pivot of the BAXI Manresa Yankuba Sima suffered a knee injury on Monday, which will force him to stay for a few weeks. Its evolution will set the recovery times.
Pedro Martínez, at the press conference prior to the first day, said that *** "we want to start, we have been 7 weeks of work but we want to play in our house; New players are very keen to live the first game in the New Congost; Unicaja is a team that has changed many players, it is now a team with a very good physical and athletic presence; They have signed high-level players, as they always do »***.