Huertas will be the second-oldest player in EuroLeague history

Dubai Basketball has signed Marcelinho Huertas, who left Tenerife. The 43-year-old Brazilian playmaker will return to EuroLeague after a seven-year gap and will reunite with his former coach Xavi Pascual. The two worked together at Barcelona from 2011 to 2015.

This season with Tenerife, Huertas played eight EuroCup games, averaging 18 minutes. In those games he recorded 8 points, 1.5 rebounds and 5 assists per game. In seven Spanish League games, he averaged 14.3 points, 1.3 rebounds and 3.9 assists.

Huertas was named Basketball Champions League season MVP in 2024 and 2025. In 2025, he also won the Spanish League MVP award.

When Huertas plays for Dubai in EuroLeague, he will be the second-oldest player in the competition's history. That record belongs to American-Italian big man Dan Gay. Gay played two EuroLeague games for Fortitudo Bologna in the 2006-07 season, and his last game came when he was 45 years, 6 months and 12 days old. Huertas cannot break this record this season. Even if Dubai reach the final on May 30, 2027, and Huertas plays in it, he will be 44 years and 5 days old that day. So Huertas will not be able to match the record of Dan Gay, which has stood for about 20 years.