Juan N\u00fa\u00f1ez has joined Bar\u00e7a from German club Ratiopharm Ulm. The 20-year-old guard (1.94 metres) is signing a three-year contract that takes him though to 30 June 2027 and took his medical and fitness tests on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Born in Madrid in 2004, he is a regular in the Spanish national team that recently qualified for the Paris Olympics. He may be young but he has excellent vision and is a very valuable addition to the side long with the two other signings already announced,\u00a0Kevin Punter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Justin Anderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n A product of the Real Madrid youth system, N\u00fa\u00f1ez was MVP of the Junior EuroLeague before moving up to the senior team in 2020-21, playing 15 games including the final against Bar\u00e7a. To get more playing time, he then left for Ratiopharm Ulm, his first foreign experience.<\/p>\n He ended his second season in Germany with an average of\u00a0 9.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.7 assists, and of 7.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4 assists in the playoffs. In the second tier Eurocup, he posted 10.8 points, 3.6 rebounds and 5.7 assists.<\/p>\n N\u00fa\u00f1ez has learned at Ratiopharm Ulm, and the German side has improved with him, winning the Bundesliga for the very first time by defeating Baskets Bonn in the final.<\/p>\n N\u00fa\u00f1ez also tried his fortune in the NBA Draft, where he was a number 36 pick for the Indiana Pacers, although his rights were eventually transferred to the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 20-year-old Spanish guard signs for three seasons through to 30 June 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":398675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-398674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/GTZ9ZevXgAACgQQ.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398674"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=398674"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=398674"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=398674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Positive experience in Germany<\/h2>\n