{"id":447133,"date":"2025-06-19T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447133"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:21:02","slug":"alba-berlin-yanni-wetzell-bids-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/alba-berlin-yanni-wetzell-bids-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Alba Berlin: Yanni Wetzell bids farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alba Berlin has announced the departure of Yanni Wetzell, a New Zealand player who spent the last three seasons with the German club.<\/p>\n<p>During the last EuroLeague season, Wetzell stood out with impressive averages of: 11.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 0.8 steals per game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">Goodbye Yanni! \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>Nach drei Saisons im ALBA-Trikot zieht es Yanni Wetzell in die japanische erste Liga. Der Center wechselt mit Ablauf seines Vertrags zu den Akita Northern Happinets.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for everything and good luck for your next step! \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 Tilo Wiedensohler <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RWyILYgo6w\">pic.twitter.com\/RWyILYgo6w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ALBA BERLIN (@albaberlin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albaberlin\/status\/1935608933529395580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 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 German club bids farewell to the New Zealander, who has spent the last three seasons with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":350322,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,83],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","category-basketball-champions-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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