{"id":363835,"date":"2023-12-24T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=363835"},"modified":"2023-12-24T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T13:13:19","slug":"nico-mannion-scores-26-points-in-his-debut-with-varese-im-happy-to-be-back-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nico-mannion-scores-26-points-in-his-debut-with-varese-im-happy-to-be-back-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Mannion scores 26 points in his debut with Varese: I&#8217;m happy to be back in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Mannion marks his return in Italy with an excellent debut wearing the Openjobmetis Varese jersey.<br \/>\nMannion was the top scorer and leader in the clutch moments of the road win against Carpegna Prosciutto Pesaro.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian national team point guard scored 26 points with 4 rebounds and 5 fouls drawn:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a debut for Nico Mannion with Varese: <br \/>-26 PTS<br \/>-9\/17 FG<br \/>-4\/6 3PT<br \/>-1.040 PPP <br \/>-4 REB<br \/>-1 AST <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LBASerieA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LBASerieA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqEr86r9pI\">pic.twitter.com\/iqEr86r9pI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spel (@spel81) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spel81\/status\/1738678602013536610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before playing, I did only one practice with the team, but we worked well and the scouting prepared by the staff also helped me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to be in Varese and to be back in Italy. I want to thank everyone who gave me support-I really received a fantastic welcome. I&#8217;m just happy to be here playing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can I help the team? I will do whatever is needed and whatever the coach asks me to do. I&#8217;m not in the best shape now, especially in my legs but I want to get back to top form as soon as possible and be more present also on defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mannion recently returned to Italy after a brief stint with Baskonia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":363830,"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":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-363835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/12\/DBT_2006.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835","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=363835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=363835"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=363835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}