{"id":330080,"date":"2023-05-09T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=330080"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:55:00","slug":"sam-dekker-and-josh-sharma-sign-multi-year-extensions-with-london-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sam-dekker-and-josh-sharma-sign-multi-year-extensions-with-london-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Dekker and Josh Sharma sign multi-year extensions with London Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London Lions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondonlions.com\/news\/sam-dekker-josh-sharma-sign-extensions-with-the-london-lions\">have agreed<\/a> to contract extensions with\u00a0<strong>Sam Dekker<\/strong>\u00a0through the\u00a0<strong>2026 season<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Josh Sharma<\/strong>\u00a0through the\u00a0<strong>2025 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Lions Captain Sam Dekker inked an extension following a stellar 2022-23 season, which saw the 6\u20199\u201d Forward lead the Club to a BBL Regular Season Championship, Cup Title, and a selection to the 7Days EuroCup Second Team.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin native averaged 17.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 steals during the BBL regular season. Dekker also finished his EuroCup campaign averaging 18.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists, all while finishing second in PPG and PIR.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma, recently named to the\u00a0<strong>BBL\u2019s Molten Defensive Team of the Year<\/strong>, finished the BBL regular season averaging 9.4 points, 1.9 blocks, and 5.3 rebounds whilst shooting 59.8% attempts from the floor. The 7-foot big man finished his 7Days EuroCup regular season campaign third in blocks per game. Sharma was selected to the\u00a0<strong>Molten BBL All-British Team<\/strong>\u00a0after debuting for the\u00a0<strong>Great Britain National Team<\/strong>\u00a0this past February.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DEKKER &amp; SHARMA LOCKED IN! \u270d\ufe0f\ud83e\udd81<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dekker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dekker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Josharma20?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Josharma20<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The London Lions have agreed to contract extensions with Sam Dekker through the 2026 season and Josh Sharma through the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9YSmcKMSq0\">https:\/\/t.co\/9YSmcKMSq0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wearelondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wearelondon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8educZywyb\">pic.twitter.com\/8educZywyb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; London Lions (@LondonLions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonLions\/status\/1655979612860448768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 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>Dekker was the second-best scorer in the Eurocup regular season with 18.2 points per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":330075,"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":[197,289],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-330080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-united-kingdom","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\/05\/Fvs4rasWIAUT5sr.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330080","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=330080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330080"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=330080"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=330080"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=330080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}