1989-90

Once the necessary year of adaptation to the new category is over, Pamesa Valencia bets again to make a better team and achieve promotion to the A1, where the best teams of the ACB are already.

To do this, the club makes a great effort, since the important figures of the previous year, adds players with a lot of cache in the basketball of the time. Brad Branson continued in the team, and along with him, another great signing from Real Madrid, the American power forward Johnny Rogers, who shortly before had won the European Cup Winners' Cup with the white club along with two legends such as Fernando Martín and Drazen Petrovic, joined the team. Over the years, Rogers would become one of the most important players in the club's history.

Along with Rogers, two more important players joined the team: Salva Díez and José Luis “Indio” Díaz. Salva Díez came from CajaCanarias, where he had earned his place as one of the most incipient point guards in the league, and where it was already evident that he would become one of the best Spanish point guards of his time. “Indio” arrived from CAI Zaragoza with the cache of being a solvent point guard in the ACB.

The fourth addition comes in the bench. Toni Ferrer changed the benches for the offices and José Antonio Figueroa, a Basque coach who would be entrusted with the mission of promoting the team to the A1.

Despite starting with two consecutive defeats, the team soon began to feel comfortable, with a core of Salva Díez, Indio Díez, Sergio Coterón, Johnny Rogers, Miguel Ángel Pou and Brad Branson, and with a rather short rotation, the team soon chained victories, and everything seemed to indicate that it was going in the right direction.

The investment made was reflected in the stands, where more and more people came to watch basketball. The Fonteta continued its continuous remodeling, and the preferential zone had more comfortable chairs. For the Fonteta paraded players of the quality of for example, Arvydas Sabonis, who arrived with the Forum of Valladolid.

The challenge of promotion to the A1 was posed against Pamesa Valencia with a final hurdle, the Basque team of CajaBilbao, led by the charismatic Juan Manuel López Iturriaga. The tie turned out to be a success for the Valencians, who won with a resounding 3-0 victory. The La Casilla pavilion witnessed the historic promotion to the category of the true greats, at the top of the Spanish basketball divisions. On May 10, 1990, Pamesa Valencia finally reached the A1. The last game would also mark Iturriaga's retirement from active basketball.