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Ilyasova probably out of Barcelona

2009-07-11 15:06

As reported by Spanish media, Barcelona takes for granted that, unlike David Andersen who is probably staying, the Turkish power forward Ersan Ilyasova will not continue with the club and will go to the NBA and the Milwaukee Bucks.

This forces club officials to be examining other options to replace the 22-year old Ilyasova in the power forward position and Terrence Morris seems to be the top candidate. Morris was released by CSKA some two weeks ago and was reported to have reached an agreement with Efes Pilsen before the Blaugrana got in the game.

In case the Terence Morris case doen't work out, Barcelona will probably target another player who competed with CSKA last year: Erazem Lorbek. The Slovenian center is not a free agent like Morris, but CSKA could agree to let him go (even if for some kind of compensation), since they plan to keep mostly Russian players and reduce the budget.