{"id":429243,"date":"2025-02-19T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429243"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:11:55","slug":"real-madrid-considering-patrick-beverley-as-dennis-smith-jr-s-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/real-madrid-considering-patrick-beverley-as-dennis-smith-jr-s-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid Considering Patrick Beverley as Dennis Smith Jr.&#8217;s Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1770\"><strong data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1416\">Real Madrid<\/strong> is reportedly targeting <strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1461\">Patrick Beverley<\/strong> to replace <strong data-start=\"1473\" data-end=\"1493\">Dennis Smith Jr.<\/strong>, who is no longer in the team\u2019s plans. The former NBA veteran, recently released by <strong data-start=\"1578\" data-end=\"1597\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> after a heated dispute with <strong data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1646\">Dimitris Itoudis<\/strong>, could provide an experienced presence in Madrid\u2019s backcourt. The club has until <strong data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1743\">February 27<\/strong> to finalize the signing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"2186\">After losing the <strong data-start=\"1789\" data-end=\"1811\">Copa del Rey final<\/strong>, Real Madrid sits at <strong data-start=\"1833\" data-end=\"1865\">11th place in the EuroLeague<\/strong>, struggling to secure a <strong data-start=\"1890\" data-end=\"1906\">play-in spot<\/strong> after a disappointing summer transfer window. <strong data-start=\"1953\" data-end=\"1966\">Smith Jr.<\/strong>, signed in January, has failed to make an impact, averaging just <strong data-start=\"2032\" data-end=\"2058\">4 points in EuroLeague<\/strong>. With rumors of an <strong data-start=\"2078\" data-end=\"2092\">NBA return<\/strong>, Madrid is now weighing whether Beverley is the <strong data-start=\"2141\" data-end=\"2157\">right gamble<\/strong> to turn the season around.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1146\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozzartsport.com\/kosarka\/vesti\/panicna-kupovina-ili-spas-sezone-real-vidi-beverlija-kao-zamenu-za-smita\/505276\"><em data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1144\">Source: Mozzart Sport<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Smith Jr.\u2019s struggles, the Spanish club is eyeing the ex-Hapoel guard for an urgent EuroLeague boost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429242,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Patrick-Beverley-Real-Madrid.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429243","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=429243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429243"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429243"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429243"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}