{"id":429199,"date":"2025-02-19T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429199"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:57:55","slug":"dennis-smith-jr-leaves-real-madrid-after-just-35-minutes-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dennis-smith-jr-leaves-real-madrid-after-just-35-minutes-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Smith Jr. leaves Real Madrid after just 35 minutes on the court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1533\"><strong data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1193\">Dennis Smith Jr.<\/strong>&#8216;s stint with <strong data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1222\">Real Madrid<\/strong> lasted just <strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1249\">four games<\/strong>, totaling <strong data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1288\">35 minutes and 11 points<\/strong>. Signed on <strong data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1314\">January 16<\/strong>, he departs only <strong data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1349\">33 days later<\/strong>, having failed to reach the necessary fitness level or adapt to the team\u2019s system. According to <strong data-start=\"1446\" data-end=\"1462\">Chris Haynes<\/strong>, the guard is already looking to make a swift return to the <strong data-start=\"1523\" data-end=\"1530\">NBA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1828\">Smith Jr.&#8217;s short-lived tenure highlights Real Madrid\u2019s struggles in the transfer market. Desperate for a point guard, they ended up with an unfit and ill-prepared signing. Now, with the <strong data-start=\"1722\" data-end=\"1764\">EuroLeague transfer deadline next week<\/strong>, the club must decide quickly whether to seek a new addition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Veteran guard Dennis Smith Jr. is leaving Real Madrid and intends to make a return to the NBA this season, league sources tell me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8RS8wdd4Me\">pic.twitter.com\/8RS8wdd4Me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1892020220211908900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2025<\/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>The American point guard struggled to adapt to European basketball and now aims for an immediate NBA return<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429198,"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":[34,82,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Dennis-Smith-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429199","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=429199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429199"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429199"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429199"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}