{"id":438758,"date":"2025-04-20T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438758"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:11:10","slug":"growing-doubts-around-donte-divincenzo-italy-reignites-interest-in-darius-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/growing-doubts-around-donte-divincenzo-italy-reignites-interest-in-darius-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Doubts Around Donte DiVincenzo, Italy Reignites Interest in Darius Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Basketball Federation (FIP) is still pushing for Donte DiVincenzo\u2019s presence at EuroBasket 2025, but pessimism is growing. Bureaucratic hurdles remain, and as of today, the New York Knicks guard\u2019s participation is hanging by a thread.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 The Italian Basketball Federation continues to work on the Donte DiVincenzo front, but in recent days there has been growing pessimism: the player&#8217;s presence at Eurobasket 2025 is increasingly in doubt. Darius Thompson in an option (Alessandro Luigi Maggi) \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rzR5UM5CMY\">https:\/\/t.co\/rzR5UM5CMY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportando (@Sportando) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportando\/status\/1913845915766469091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite a verbal commitment from DiVincenzo during a meeting earlier this month, delays in passport processing are putting everything at risk. \u201cThe issue is the passport. Without it, we can\u2019t move forward,\u201d said Gigi Datome on April 7. Coach Gianmarco Pozzecco echoed the same sentiment days later: \u201cThe Federation has done everything. Now it\u2019s up to the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With no breakthroughs in sight and time running out, Sportando has learned that talks with Darius Thompson have reopened. The Anadolu Efes guard, Italian through marriage, has held a valid passport for over a year. After early discussions in 2022 stalled, the idea is now back on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Italy continues to work behind the scenes to build the strongest possible roster. If DiVincenzo can&#8217;t make it, could Darius Thompson be the surprise addition for EuroBasket 2025?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Basketball Federation (FIP) is still pushing for Donte DiVincenzo\u2019s presence at EuroBasket 2025, but pessimism is growing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":438756,"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":[131],"tags":[1290],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italbasket","tag-sportando-scoop-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/Italbasket-DiVincenzo-Thompson.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438758","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=438758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438758"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438758"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438758"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}