He had spent six seasons at the helm
Carles Duran dismissed as Joventut head coach
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Joventut Badalona announced on Monday that it has terminated the contract of head coach Carles Duran. The Spanish team had a quarterfinal exit to Paris Basketball in the 2023-24 BKT EuroCup Playoffs and finds itself 10th in the 18-team Spanish League after going 14-14 through the first 28 games.
Carles Duran's EuroCup record
The 48-year-old had been in charge of Joventut for the last six seasons, the last five of which were spent in the BKT EuroCup. In that time, Duran led Joventut to a 59-34 record and the team got as far as the semifinals, doing so in the 2022-23 campaign before falling to eventual champion Dreamland Gran Canaria.
This season, Joventut had a 10-8 regular-season record – good for fifth place in Group A – and beat ratiopharm Ulm in the eighthfinals, but a quarterfinal defeat to Paris ended its European adventure.
Over the years, Duran's side reached the Top 16 in 2019-20, the quarterfinals in 2020-21, the eighthfinals in 2021-22, the semifinals in 2022-23, and the quarterfinals in 2023-24.
Saving Joventut from relegation
Duran was appointed as Joventut head coach in February 2018 and helped the team avoid relegation from the Spanish League, with Nicolas Laprovittola – now of FC Barcelona – inspiring the team in the final weeks of the season.
"Club Joventut Badalona would like to thank Carles for everything he has done for our club," Joventut said in a statement.
"He has spent more than two decades defending the interests of La Penya, both in his first stint and in this second one, with the maximum involvement and professionalism, and always putting the interests of the team above all else. We are sure that soon he will be back competing in the place where he belongs: at the highest level."