{"id":142210,"date":"2020-04-03T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=142210"},"modified":"2020-04-03T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T18:22:05","slug":"we-could-end-the-season-without-us-players-it-wouldnt-be-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/we-could-end-the-season-without-us-players-it-wouldnt-be-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris, Motiejunas:\u201cWe could end the season without US players, it wouldn\u2019t be the same&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 30-minute interview with team\u2019s podcast, Zalgiris Kaunas general manager Paulius Motiejunas has discussed the suspension of the basketball season due to the Coronavirus and the will to continue the Euroleague season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanceling the season is a scenario, but we immediately stated that we\u2019re not considering it, and we\u2019re not even putting it up for a vote. We\u2019re looking for ways to finish the season. We could finish the season without US players, but it wouldn\u2019t be the same. You were putting together a team and you want to finish it like that. We finally found the chemistry, playing together after that bad run. We want to see how we\u2019d look later on. If you take away the American, what are you really doing it for? Next season? It\u2019s too early to discuss what might happen\u201d, Motiejunas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motiejunas has spoken about the current situation in a 30-minute interview with team\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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":[199,271],"tags":[611],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-142210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania","tag-zalgiris-kaunas"],"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\/142210","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142210"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=142210"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=142210"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=142210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}