{"id":139646,"date":"2020-03-14T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=139646"},"modified":"2020-03-14T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T20:00:28","slug":"rick-pitino-to-join-iona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rick-pitino-to-join-iona\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Pitino to join Iona?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ian O&#8217;Connor, Rick Pitino is telling people that he has a deal in place to be the next coach of the Iona Gaels.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/former-louisville-coach-rick-pitino-planning-to-return-to-college-basketball\/\">another report from CBS Sports<\/a>, Pitino informed his Panathinaikos players that &#8216;He will return to coach college basketball this year but will finish out the Euroleague season if and when it resumes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pitino left Greece to be with his family in the United States after\u00a0<a href=\"\/?p=139273\">Esake suspended until further notice the league due to the coronavirus outbreak in Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Rick Pitino is now telling people he believes he has a deal in place to coach Iona. Next 24 hours should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian O&#8217;Connor (@Ian_OConnor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ian_OConnor\/status\/1238908430427066369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: College hoops insider Jeff Goodman confirmed the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Iona is expected to hire Rick Pitino to replace Tim Cluess, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/1238913867943739393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Pitino about to return to the College Basketball world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-139646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139646"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=139646"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=139646"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=139646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}