{"id":411486,"date":"2024-10-31T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=411486"},"modified":"2024-10-31T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T06:57:04","slug":"big-market-coup-for-zalgiris-kaunas-official-signing-of-lonnie-walker-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/big-market-coup-for-zalgiris-kaunas-official-signing-of-lonnie-walker-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Big market coup for Zalgiris Kaunas: official signing of Lonnie Walker IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas has pulled off an NBA coup: here comes Lonnie Walker IV, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shamscharania\/status\/1851750015632330817\">Shams Charania<\/a> on his X account. The player leaves the United States for the moment and lands in the EuroLeague, where the team of coach Andrea Trinchieri, currently in first place, is ready to welcome him.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian club confirmed that the deal is valid until the end of the current season, while Charania reports that there is an NBA buyout clause in the contract that can be exercised until February 18, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikeascotto\/status\/1851754124888391869\">Michael Scotto<\/a> of Hoopshype adds that the NBA buyout is $450,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zalgiris Kaunas adds a player with significant NBA experience, as the club signed 25-year-old Lonnie Walker IV until the end of the season. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Kaunas, Loonie! \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cLj8KoFyGB\">pic.twitter.com\/cLj8KoFyGB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bczalgiris\/status\/1851758052090749254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Trinchieri&#8217;s Zalgiris Kaunas has made a big market move: it&#8217;s done for the arrival of Lonnie Walker IV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":409958,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-411486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/walkerUntitled-11.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411486","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411486"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=411486"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=411486"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=411486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}