{"id":311568,"date":"2023-01-06T19:57:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=311568"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:57:23","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-adds-isaiah-taylor-to-its-backcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-adds-isaiah-taylor-to-its-backcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas adds Isaiah Taylor to its backcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injury-struck <a href=\"https:\/\/zalgiris.lt\/en\/news\/bc-zalgiris\/105082\/\">Zalgiris<\/a> will add Isaiah Taylor, a 28-year-old 191 cm tall point guard with NBA and EuroLeague experience, to its roster. The American has signed a deal that will keep him in Kaunas until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Zalgiris had to look for reinforcements in their backcourt after Keenan Evans ruptured his Achilles tendon in Thursday\u2019s game against Fenerbahce. Evans will have to miss 6-8 months of basketball after the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor started this season with Anadolu Efes Istanbul. However, he didn\u2019t get many chances to make a name for himself with the EuroLeague champions, scoring 2.6 points and 1.6 efficiency points in 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>His star shone brighter last season, as he averaged 15.2 points per game for UCAM Murcia, who finished fourth in the Spanish league.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor started his European career in Israel in the 2020-2021 season with Maccabi Rishon Lezion, where he put up 17 points, 4.4 assists and 1.2 steals averages.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Europe, Taylor also played for the Houston Rockets and Atlanta Hawks in the NBA. Taylor played 66 games with the Hawks in the 2017-2018 season, collecting 6.7 points and 3.1 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The newest Zalgiris player will wear #22 jersey and will be arriving in Lithuania soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome aboard! Zalgiris has found its man for the backcourt with the signing of Isaiah Taylor. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8covPrqjo\">https:\/\/t.co\/o8covPrqjo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9YObPZoo6N\">pic.twitter.com\/9YObPZoo6N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bczalgiris\/status\/1611430695380963328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas product will replace the injured Keenan Evans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":311567,"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":[199,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-311568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/Flzx_5bXEA0Fj_D.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311568","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=311568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311568"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=311568"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=311568"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=311568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}