2016-17 LIGA ENDESA

22/07/2019

A season of such a level kept to the end the biggest surprise of all. The team manages to remake the great stick of the Eurocup and faces the PlayOff with third place finish in Regular League. A tough quarter-final between Barça Lassa will be resolved in the final seconds of the third and final in the Fonteta. The pass to the semifinals was a fact, the fourth consecutive.

 

Baskonia waited us in the semifinals without the home advantage. A tought first game in Vitoria manages to advance us with a sensational San Emeterio. Although the locals will match one in the second, the Fonteta comes up and gets the two home games to stay home to the local delirium. Bojan Dubljevic grabs the microphone in the celebration on track, Valencia Basket returned to the end of the Endesa League 14 years later. As if it were not enough, in parallel, Real Madrid is imposed on Unicaja, granting the Euroleague place for the season 17-18 to Valencia Basket.

 

And the final, with two initial matches in Madrid tremendously matched. The locals would advance in the first, but in the second, Valencia Basket would take a match that will be remembered by an acrobatic basket of Bojan Dubljevic that would be definitive in the fate of the final. The series traveled to Valencia with 1-1 and with two matches to dream. In the third, after overcoming a bad start, Valencia Basket made a great second part beating by 17 points. Everything was ready for a marked day in the calendar, on June 16, 2017, fourth game of the final. In a Fonteta where a soul could not fit, the second quarter marked the way, getting rents higher than 20 points. Despite Madrid's push, Valencia Basket closes the game and the league, and begins the great celebration, invasion of track and party until the wee hours of the morning to celebrate the most important day in 30 years of club history.


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