The tournament will be held for the first time next year at the Palau Municipal d’Esports between February 16 and 19
The Copa del Rey basketball already has a venue for its next edition in 2023. Badalona will host the tournament for the first time since it was held in a final eight format and will see even more of basketball permeate every corner of a city that has the sport is dedicated to the basket and Joventut, one of the most traditional clubs in Spain.
The Palau Municipal d’Esports will host the top seven teams at the end of the first round of the ACB League between February 16 and 19 next year, alongside the host, Joventut, who will fight for the crown that Barça won a few. months ago in Granada, after an exciting final against Madrid.
With a capacity of over 12,000 spectators, the Palau d’Esports de Badalona was designed and built as the venue for the 1992 Olympic Games basketball tournament, the tournament that left Michael Jordan’s legendary Dream Team of the United States for posterity, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird or Charles Barkley. Later it was also the scene of the Eurobasket 1997 and numerous concerts and all kinds of events.
Despite being one of the ACB’s classic pavilions, it had never been a cup venue. You have to go back to the 1984-85 season to find the latest precedent for a cup in Badalona. It was in what was then called the Pabellón de Ausiàs March, today renamed the Pabellón de los País Catalanes, the venue for the Joventut de Badalona matches until 1991. That edition was played in the last four format, with semi-finals and final, and final win for Real Madrid against the local team.
Source: La Verdad
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