NBB: Franca delivers rings à la NBA in honor of the unpublished penta

Sesi Franca Basquete honored, with rings, the players who won the fifth consecutive championship unprecedented in NBB history. The ceremony took place on Monday, at Pedrocão, in Franca (SP), before the team's debut in the current season of the national championship against São José-SP.

The tribute, made for the first time by the club in Brazil, repeats a tradition that happens in the NBA and other sports in the United States. The idea of the pieces and the production were made by the goldsmiths of a jewelry company in Franca.

On Monday, all members of the technical and functional committee received the tribute. In the squad, four players who were in last season's historic campaign also won the rings: David Jackson, Rafa Mineiro, Vini Santos and Piá.

Also according to the board of Franca, the tribute will also be paid to the other players who were in the squad last season and are now in other clubs, such as the cases of Georginho and Lucas Dias, who went to Mogi, Bennett, who is at Bauru, Zu Júnior, who went to Brasília, in addition to Cristiano Felício, Nacho Laterza and Luís Rodriguez.

Franca informed that the club's former players will receive the rings before the start of the matches in which they are at Pedrocão throughout the season.

Franca has five NBB titles in history, all won consecutively in the following seasons: 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. Although he is not the greatest champion since the creation of the championship – Flamengo has won it seven times – no other club has ever won the competition five times in a row.

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