{"id":263796,"date":"2022-02-26T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=263796"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T14:54:36","slug":"shabazz-napier-leaves-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shabazz-napier-leaves-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabazz Napier leaves Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Artem Komarov, Shabazz Napier left Zenit and Russia to return to the States.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the former UConn would have taken this decision in any case, regardless of the ongoing war, because he didn&#8217;t feel he was ready to play.<\/p>\n<p>Napier injured his ankle early in the season, but Zenit announced his debut for the game against Barcelona, which was scheduled yesterday before the postponement decided by Euroleague.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shabazz Napier has left Zenit, I\u2019m told by the source. But the reason behind it is not that obvious \u2013 he would\u2019ve left Russia anyway \u2018cause he didn\u2019t feel he was ready to play. That\u2019s why he was prepared to fly home.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Artem Komarov (@art_basket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/art_basket\/status\/1497564937178263564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2022<\/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>The former UConn pointguard injured his ankle early in the season<\/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":[82,86],"tags":[12937,2037],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-263796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euroleague","category-vtb-league","tag-shabazz-napier-en","tag-zenit-st-petersburg-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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