Juan Carlos Navarro is back in Spain with his only and best team, Regal Barcelona this year. Last year he spent the year in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies. The season went well for Navarro personally but the team suffered and his best friend Pau Gasol was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. Jorge Garbajosa, is in Russia playing in the Superleague after spending his second season in the NBA where he suffered several injuries and was unable to play for most of the year.
Now Rudy Fernandez the most athletic and talked about Spanish rookie in the NBA has started preseason and doing well apart from fatigue of playing in the 2008 Summer Olympics and training during the summer.
With the marks of top Spanish National teams and figures such as Rafael Nadal who just won the Wimbledon after a 44 year drought for Spanish Players and the Spanish Soccer team who also won the Euro2008 after not winning in the 40s. The national teams for Spain both women and men are hoping to follow in those footsteps in Pekin during the Olympic Summer Basketball Games!