The Endesa League faces its first matchday with a long list of affected players. From muscle injuries to ligament tears, the teams arrive at the kickoff with several questions regarding the availability of their key players.
The Ilerna Lleida faces a poor start to the season following the serious injury of Atoumane Diagne, which will keep him out of competition for the entire campaign. The club has quickly responded by signing Aziz Bandaogo, a 2.13-meter Senegalese center from the Turkish league, to fill the power forward position in the interior game.
The Endesa League 2026-27 kicks off in days and the clubs are finalizing their rosters through the termination of non-guaranteed contracts. A practice that offers financial flexibility to the entities but exposes players to losing opportunities without contractual protection, as happened with Elías Valtonen at Valencia Basket or Aurimas Majauskas at iLERNA Lleida.
The Unicaja faces the start of the Liga Endesa with shortcomings in its interior game and has set its sights on Yankuba Sima, a center currently with Valencia Basket. The return of the Senegalese player to Malaga is possible after Nikola Mirotic joined the taronja team, which has created an excess of national quota.
The League Endesa 26/27 significantly expands its offer of open matches. Three new regional channels (TVG, Aragón TV, and EITB) join the free basketball broadcasts, consolidating a trend of greater accessibility to the national championship.
Força Lleida and Aurimas Majauskas have reached a mutual separation agreement after barely a month at the club. The Lithuanian forward-center, who arrived on August 18 with a non-guaranteed contract, will not continue at iLERNA Lleida after participating in preseason and official competitions.
Galician basketball returns to the top category with a triple presence. Liga Endesa once again welcomes Río Breogán, Monbus Obradoiro, and Leyma Coruña, three decades after the last precedent of 1993-94, when Dyc Breogán, OAR Ferrol, and Coren Ourense competed.
The MoraBanc Andorra signs Georgian point guard Rati Andronikashvili for two months as a training player. The 25-year-old international, standing at 1.94 meters, brings experience in the Liga Endesa and Primera FEB to lighten the load in directing the tricolor team.
Badalona won the Supercopa de España 2026 after defeating Barcelona 101-87 in the final held on their court in front of 12,046 spectators. Nico Laprovítola was pivotal against his former team, scoring 31 points with a spectacular 9 of 13 in three-pointers.
Barça overcame Valencia Basket in a tense semifinal of the ACB Supercup, with a final score of 86-87. Justin Robinson led the azulgrana attack with 17 points, while Alexander Sekulic's team prevailed after more than two hours of intense play. Tomorrow at 19:00 hours, the final will take place at the Olímpic in Badalona.
Six months after Valencia won the ACB League with a 108-84 victory over Barça in the final, both teams will face off again this Saturday in Badalona. But little remains of those projects: the champion has lost its coach and key players, while the blue-and-red team has executed an almost total overhaul of its roster.
The Joventut faces the Supercopa Endesa with two historical curses against them: no host has ever won the tournament, and the Penya has not advanced past a semifinal since it stopped being played as a single match. The rebuilt squad from Badalona starts this Saturday against Baskonia, the current Copa del Rey champion.