{"id":172730,"date":"2020-09-17T17:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=172730"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:39:23","slug":"donatas-motiejunas-joins-xinjiang-flying-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donatas-motiejunas-joins-xinjiang-flying-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donatas Motiejunas joins Xinjiang Flying Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donatas Motiejunas confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.15min.lt\/24sek\/naujiena\/lietuva\/nauja-kluba-pasirinkes-donatas-motiejunas-tai-laiminti-komanda-875-1378398\">15min.lt<\/a> that he has signed a one year contract with Xinjiang Flying Tigers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I signed a contract with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers Club because I know it&#8217;s a winning team,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.15min.lt\/24sek\/naujiena\/lietuva\/nauja-kluba-pasirinkes-donatas-motiejunas-tai-laiminti-komanda-875-1378398\"> Motiej\u016bnas said.<\/a> &#8211; The Flying Tigers have won the Chinese Championship and are also in the semi-finals on a regular basis, so it&#8217;s a winning team. And that&#8217;s exactly what I was looking for. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lithuanian big man spent last year in CBA with the Shanghai Dongfang. He averaged over 22 points, 15 rebounds and 3 assist per game.<\/p>\n<p>Motiejunas revealed that this summer he was also in talks with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus and other CBA team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donatas Motiejunas signing with Xinjiang Flying Tigers to a one year contract, the player confirmed in an interview to Ieva Dumbauskaite of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQyRmjQ5cW\">https:\/\/t.co\/lQyRmjQ5cW<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vBy0ss2zRq\">https:\/\/t.co\/vBy0ss2zRq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donatas Urbonas (@Urbodo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Urbodo\/status\/1306609105994428420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to Donatas Motiejunas, he was also in talks with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus and some other CBA teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donatas Urbonas (@Urbodo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Urbodo\/status\/1306609391676817408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 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>Motiejunas revealed that this summer he was also in talks with Maccabi Tel Aviv, Olympiacos Piraeus and some other CBA team<\/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":[351],"tags":[7034,3777],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-172730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-donatas-motiejunas-en","tag-xinjiang-flying-tigers","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"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\/172730","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=172730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172730"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=172730"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=172730"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=172730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}