{"id":334871,"date":"2023-06-15T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=334871"},"modified":"2023-06-15T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:52:19","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-parts-ways-with-achille-polonara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-parts-ways-with-achille-polonara\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas parts ways with Achille Polonara"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"post-108649 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news team-bc-zalgiris\" data-push=\"true\">Lithuanian champion Zalgiris Kaunas has said goodbye to its first foreign player at the end of the 2022-2023 basketball season.<\/p>\n<p>Achille Polonara will not return to Kaunas next year after a season marked by making to EuroLeague playoffs, winning the King Mindaugas Cup and regaining the Betsafe-LKL championship title.<\/p>\n<p>After the season, Polonara\u2019s contract with the Green-and-Whites has ended and he will look for a new club.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian arrived in Kaunas at the beginning of January, but finished the season on the sidelines \u2013 he missed the Lithuanian league Finals series due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>While wearing the Zalgiris jersey, the Polonara spent 18 minutes on the court in the EuroLeague, averaging 4.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian was even more efficient in the domestic championship, scoring 6.7 points, grabbing 6.2 rebounds and making 1.9 assists in 19 minutes on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Zalgiris Kaunas thanks Polonara for his work and wishes him the best of luck in his future career.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"social-likes social-likes_visible social-likes_ready\" data-single-title=\"Share\" data-zeroes=\"yes\">\n<div class=\"social-likes__widget social-likes__widget_facebook\" title=\"Share link on Facebook\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian champion Zalgiris Kaunas has said goodbye to its first foreign player at the end of the 2022-2023 basketball season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":334872,"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":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-334871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/Fypve6KX0AEfTKk.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334871","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334871"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=334871"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=334871"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=334871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}