![]() ![]() Some were simple progressions of history, other were product of structural development that has sometimes clashed with common projects.īut we have grown. The journey to arrive to what basketball is today has been long and not without complications. ![]() For many months they filled Spain with basketball while our clubs were also key to international competitions and the NBA took the first steps towards expansion, with the first drafts of European players and the organization, shortly after, of the historic Open McDonald's. I’d like to give special mention to the many magazines that told the best stories, many of them around Mundobasket 1986. The space dedicated to Basketball in the media, radio and television multiplied. The “Primera B” league and the Women’s League lived in those days some historical competition seasons. We had recognizable clubs and sponsors that identified themselves with teams and cities These fast developments managed to capture the rest of the competitions and the media. A new competition system, the fact that our league was very similar to the Italian league that was the best European league on those days, and the arrival of foreign players that became role models together with our players, led to the explosion of our sport. Those first achievements of our National Team that had just started competing against the greatest teams worldwide, were the best foundation for the revolution that started with the ACB league and with the first steps in the organization of a new league. All of them together with the unmatched Antonio Díaz Miguel, won the fourth place in the 1982 World Championships, the silver medal in the Eurobasket in 1983 and the silver medal in the Olympic Games in 1984 that set the foundation of our sport and captivated a whole country so support a sport and a team with faces like in the collectible cards. ![]() and had a new generation of players that later became stars (Fernando Martín, Epi, Romay, Solozábal, López Iturriaga, Jiménez, Arcega …). We had players that were already recognized internationally like Corbalán, Brabender, Margall, etc. It was everybody’s boom and thanks to it, basketball became a model in sport but also in our society.Īt the beginning of the eighties our National Team started to rise. It was not the only magazine that we could choose from, being those the years in which we referred to our sport as the Spanish “basketball boom”. Probably, we all remember the first time that we went to the news stand to buy the first issue of the “Gigantes” magazine. 30 years are many years … or not, depending on how you look at it. ![]()
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