Abi Abass is playing a season at the highest level helping the Virtus Bologna race after race. With his contract expiring at the end of the season, the player is negotiating a renewal with the club, as Corriere di Bologna reported this morning: “the parties have been talking for a while but at the moment the white smoke doesn’t seem to be close”. There would be no shortage of sirens from abroad on the native of Como, whose contract expires at the end of the season: Abass closed the EuroLeague season with 4.4 points on average in 12.8 minutes, which increased to almost 18 minutes in the last seven games of the season. In LBA he is averaging 7.4 points and 2.1 rebounds in 18.2 minutes with 40.2% from three points so far.
Return to the national team. Meanwhile, his return to the Azzurri is official. This was announced by coach Gianmarco Pozzecco, who even before the news of the injuries of Spagnolo and Procida (and Fontecchio, at risk for the Pre-Olympic) had spoken of the real possibility of bringing Abass back to the national team. The confirmation came in the recent interview with Sky Sport, where the coach declared: «Having little time to train a national team, it is normal to put together a team, it is easier by assembling it once and continuing more or less with that. This doesn’t mean that we won’t see some surprises in June, on the contrary, there will be players who have never played in the national team. Abass will be there, he is a player I have known since he was a child, he was at the camp in Cervia with Pillastrini and I was there too. When I took over the national team he was injured, he had a crazy Euroleague and championship and it’s right to reward him.”
