{"id":441907,"date":"2025-05-13T10:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=441907"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T08:26:15","slug":"dubai-bc-reportedly-targets-mckinley-wright-and-kabengele-for-euroleague-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dubai-bc-reportedly-targets-mckinley-wright-and-kabengele-for-euroleague-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai BC reportedly targets McKinley Wright and Kabengele for EuroLeague debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Chema de Lucas, Dubai BC is making strong moves ahead of its anticipated EuroLeague debut, aiming to sign McKinley Wright, the current ABA League MVP, on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The club is also closing in on Mfiondu Kabengele, a former Real Madrid target. Adding the Canadian center would mark a major statement for the ambitious project in the Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Dubai is showing clear intent: it doesn\u2019t just want to participate in EuroLeague \u2014 it wants to compete right away at the top level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/stunning-report-from-serbia-dzanan-musa-already-set-to-join-dubai-basketball\/\">Recall that yesterday from Serbia they gave the agreement with Dzanan Musa as done<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\u00daLTIMA HORA. Dubai BC sigue perfilando su proyecto para entrar con fuerza en la pr\u00f3xima Euroliga: apunta al MVP de la Liga Adri\u00e1tica McKinley Wright, al que quiere firmar por dos temporadas, adem\u00e1s de atar al p\u00edvot Mfiondu Kabengele, al que se le relacion\u00f3 con el Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chema de Lucas (@chemadelucas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chemadelucas\/status\/1922059212521087292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 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>Dubai BC is building a competitive roster for EuroLeague. MVP McKinley Wright and big man Kabengele are top targets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":437884,"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":[191,199,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-441907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/Kabengele.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441907","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=441907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441907"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=441907"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=441907"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=441907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}