{"id":394933,"date":"2024-07-01T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=394933"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:13:00","slug":"sylvain-francisco-joins-zalgiris-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sylvain-francisco-joins-zalgiris-kaunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvain Francisco joins Zalgiris Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A point guard with EuroLeague experience will play for Zalgiris Kaunas in the upcoming season. Sylvain Francisco will come to Kaunas on a 1+1 contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old 185 cm tall Frenchman wore a Bayern Munich jersey last season and made his debut in the old continent\u2019s top tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great and I am happy to be here. I really wanted to play for Andrea Trinchieri. I knew<a href=\"https:\/\/zalgiris.lt\/en\/news\/bc-zalgiris\/126839\/\"> Zalgiris<\/a> was a good club. In fact, for me it is one of the best clubs in Europe. I felt that I had to be somewhere where I could get more responsibility and play in a great atmosphere,\u201d said Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco averaged 10.6 points, 1.7 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 19 minutes on the court during last EuroLeague season.<\/p>\n<p>In the German league, the new Zalgiris player averaged 12.7 points, 1.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSylvain adapted quickly to the EuroLeague and impressed our organization as a EuroLeague rookie with a solid debut season. It is very important for us to see the potential of our players and to show it, and in this situation there is a lot of room for that,\u201d said Zalgiris GM Gediminas Navickas.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco has also worn the jersey of the French national men\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>Before moving to the EuroLeague, he also played for Athens Peristeri (Greece), Manresa (Spain), Chorale Roane, Paris Basketball and Paris Metropolitans 92 (France).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old 185 cm tall Frenchman wore a Bayern Munich jersey last season and made his debut in the old continent\u2019s top tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":394928,"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-394933","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\/2024\/07\/GRaBBnjXYAAdLwx.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394933","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=394933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394933"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=394933"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=394933"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=394933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}