History

2017-18

Supercopa Endesa

 Champions



Copa del Rey

Quarterfinals

Turkish Airlines Euroleague

11th pos.

Liga Endesa

 Quarterfinals

The summer brought changes on the bench and on the court. Pedro Martínez's cycle came to an end, and Txus Vidorreta from Bilbao took over. On the court, Sikma, Oriola, Kravtsov, Tobey and Sato would leave the team.

In their place, Alberto Abalde would join after his loan to Joventut, Tibor Pleiss from Galatasaray, Latavious Williams from Unics Kazan, Erick Green from Olympiacos and Aaron Doornekamp from Iberostar Tenerife. Just before the start of the season, Belgian point guard Sam Van Rossom would return to the team. All to join Guillem Vives, Antoine Diot, Rafa Martinez, Joan Sastre, Fernando San Emeterio, Will Thomas and Bojan Dubljevic from the Endesa League champion team. During this start, Pedro Llompart would join the squad to palliate the absences.

The 2017-18 season began with very good news, the Supercopa Endesa would mean the sixth title in the taronja history. Two great games against Unicaja and Herbalife Gran Canaria, host, would allow the taronja to complete a 2017 to remember, with four finals 2 titles.

After this good start, a tough season began in which they had to combine the Endesa league with a very demanding Turkish Airlines Euroleague of 30 games and with a major plague of injuries. Vives, San Emeterio, Sastre, Dubljevic, Pleiss, Green, together with the long-term injuries of Williams and Diot, led the Taronja to move in the market, arriving first the Croatian Damjan Rudez, later the point guard Sergi Garcia and already facing the end of the season also Croatian Ivan Buva.

The Taronja squad managed to overcome adversity in the Endesa League, where it remained for most of the competition among the top four. Not so in the tough Euroleague, where despite giving the face, the positions that gave access to the PlayOff were moving away. The 2018 Copa del Rey, held in Gran Canaria, did not meet expectations, falling at the first hurdle against Iberostar Tenerife.

The final stretch of the Liga Endesa allowed to remain in the top half, while ending the Turkish Airlines Euroleague with a worthy balance of 12-18 in position 11 of 16, ahead of 3 teams with License A in the competition.

Despite fighting until the end for the second place in the Liga Endesa, Valencia Basket finishes fourth and is paired in the PlayOff against Herbalife Gran Canaria, in three tough games that end with a terrible outcome, an accumulation of misfortunes make the balance fall on the Canarian side in the third game, putting a bitter end to the season taronja, and denying the return to the highest European competition.