Valencia Basket has reached an agreement with Nikola Mirotic for the 2026-27 season. The Montenegrin player, a national team player with Spain, arrives free after breaking his contract with AS Monaco and joins the team to strengthen the interior game of the orange team.
Mirótic is 35 years old and has played as a local development player in ACB competitions, a relevant condition to configure the squad. He was trained in the Real Madrid youth academy and, after his initial stage in Spanish basketball, developed part of his career in the NBA between 2014 and 2019. There he played for the Chicago Bulls, New Orleans and Milwaukee Bucks.
His return to Europe first took him to FC Barcelona and then to AC Milan and AS Monaco. With the Monegasque team he played in the last qualifying phase of the Euroleague and averaged 11 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 31 matches of the highest continental competition. He also participated in the achievement of four national titles during the season.
The signing will allow Mirotic to start his thirteenth campaign in the Euroleague. Throughout 307 matches in the tournament, he has averaged 14.4 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists. He was voted the most valuable player in the regular season in 2022 and has reached the Final Four six times.
The addition adds experience to a Valencia Basket that has extensively renewed its squad. The club faces the new season with nine new faces and keeps the market monitoring open. The sporting management has explained that it intends to sustain the growth of the project and advance in the negotiations to become the owner club of the Euroleague.
With Mirotic, the team meets the need to add a power forward and at the same time reinforces the national training quota. The agreement is confirmed for one season; sporting performance and their adaptation to the new group will be the aspects that determine the real effect of one of the most outstanding incorporations of the summer of the orange team.