After a series of bad news in the form of injuries ahead of the European Basketball Championship that will start this Thursday, today (Saturday) we get some good news from one of the biggest stars in the championship, Vasilija Micic.
As you remember, the biggest star in Europe in the last two years who led Andolo Eps to two consecutive wins in the Euroleague injured his leg during the preparation match of the Serbian national team against Greece and had to be helped by the bench people in order to get off the floor when he was unable to step on his foot. The day after the injury, Micic’s national team coach, Svetislav Pesic, said that it was “very worrying”.
Now it has become clear that the big star will fly with his team to the game against Turkey in the World Cup qualifiers. An announcement regarding the diagnosis of the injury has not yet been released, but due to his inclusion in the trip to Istanbul, it can be assumed that the star avoided serious injury and there is a good chance that he will eventually play in the European Championship, where his team is in Group D along with Israel, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands and Finland.
As you may remember, during the World Championship qualifiers in the last few days, two serious injuries caused that two stars, the Spanish Sergio Yul and the Georgian Toko Shenglia, had to miss the championship. Another player who may eventually play in the tournament even though he was in doubt due to an injury is the German Daniel Theiss, who returned to the national team’s training.