2024-07-07 13:29:39
If Alexander Vezenkov returns to “Olympiakos”, his dream to once again touch the strongest basketball championship – NBA, will be extinguished in a second. A number of Greek media dropped the bomb that the Bulgarian star has already agreed on his terms and will again wear the team of the giant from Piraeus from next season. Upon returning to Olympiakos, Vezenkov will become the highest paid basketball player in Europe. According to the media in our southern neighbor, the Bulgarian star’s contract is for 5 years. And with the bonuses, Vezenkov will earn 20 million euros. For the first three years of Sasha’s contract, no club can buy him, no matter what he is offered.
Vezenkov is currently 28 years old, which means that he can play in another team, even at the age of 31. Hardly any team, even from the NBA, would be afraid to take a Bulgarian of a similar age to their team. On top of that, he has already made it to the alien league once, but quickly gave up on playing alongside the best.
It was from Olympiakos that Vezenkov moved to Sacramento in 2023, when he signed a 3-year contract with the Kings.
At the beginning of the summer, the Bulgarian was transferred to another NBA team – “Toronto”, after he refused to fight for a place in the rotation of the coach of the Californians, Mike Brown. In the Canadian team that won the league title before 2019.
Vezenkov will certainly get a lot more playing time in “Toronto” – the thing that Bulgaria’s number 1 sportsman for the last 2 years wants. But by all accounts, it seems that the native star will not play a second season in the championship of the USA and Canada, although the team that holds his rights announced that no one from Olympiakos has spoken to them about the Vezenkov saga.
Georgi Glushkov, the first Bulgarian in the NBA, believes that the choice to return to Europe instead of continuing in America is wrong.
“If he goes to Olympiakos, he will regret it years later because he didn’t make the most of his opportunities. Vezenkov was put in very difficult conditions, but in order to fight for his place, he had to get a real chance”, said Glushkov.