{"id":208757,"date":"2021-04-03T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=208757"},"modified":"2021-04-03T17:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:55:55","slug":"mike-james-aiming-for-nba-return-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-aiming-for-nba-return-agency-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James aiming for NBA return, agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BDA Sports, the agency for EuroLeague star Mike James, confirmed the news that James has returned to the United States after being suspended indefinitely by CSKA Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNLdZBsB5hB\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also adds<\/a> that James &#8211; who is still under contract with CSKA &#8211; is aiming for an opportunity to make his return to the NBA this season. This was confirmed also by CSKA president Andrey Vatutin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;James has the chance to be in an NBA team this season, or find a team in the NBA next year,&#8221; Vatutin said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AravantinosDA\/status\/1378293892794224643\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dionysis Aravantinos<\/a>). &#8220;With this scenario, it will be easier for us to come to a mutually beneficial agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James averaged 19.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game in the EuroLeague this season before the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>He played in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns and New Orleans Pelicans in 2017-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James is still under contract with CSKA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":205671,"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":[82,92,86],"tags":[],"rumors":[134,135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-208757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","category-vtb-league","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/03\/2020Degaspari30Dicembre353.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208757","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\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208768,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208757\/revisions\/208768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208757"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=208757"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=208757"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=208757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}