{"id":295040,"date":"2022-09-23T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=295040"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T13:42:08","slug":"sam-presti-says-thunder-were-pretty-close-to-a-deal-with-vasilije-micic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sam-presti-says-thunder-were-pretty-close-to-a-deal-with-vasilije-micic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Presti says Thunder were &#8216;pretty close&#8217; to a deal with Vasilije Micic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9_rBVLnCDgA\">spoke to the media<\/a> on the eve of the team&#8217;s 15th season after moving from Seattle. Among the many topics discussed, the possible arrival of Vasilije Micic in NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder acquired his rights from Philadelphia as part of the trade for Al Horford.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, only rumors about a possible move to the NBA, but in the end the Serbian star continues to play -and win-with Anadolu Efes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s really taken off since the time in which we acquired his rights,&#8230;All I can tell you is that I thought we were pretty close to a deal at one point. He has a contract and is committed (to his team in Europe). But I wouldn&#8217;t rule anything out. It&#8217;s probably a year to year thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These statements seem to rule out a trade of the player&#8217;s rights, a <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/vasilije-micic-reportedly-on-the-radar-ov-several-nba-teams\/\">solution supported<\/a> by the back to back MVP of the Euroleague Final Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micic will remain with reigning Euroleague champions Anadolu Efes next season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":291028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-295040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/08\/Micic.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295040","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=295040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295040"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=295040"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=295040"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=295040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}