{"id":448186,"date":"2025-06-26T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448186"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:06:40","slug":"rj-cole-set-to-join-reyer-venezia-as-simpson-deal-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rj-cole-set-to-join-reyer-venezia-as-simpson-deal-falls-through\/","title":{"rendered":"RJ Cole Set to Join Reyer Venezia as Simpson Deal Falls Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"618\"><strong data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"249\">Reyer Venezia<\/strong> has made its choice: <strong data-start=\"271\" data-end=\"296\">Zavier Simpson is out<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"313\">RJ Cole<\/strong> is in. After a long negotiation that never resulted in a signed deal, the club has dropped Simpson and is now close to finalizing a deal with <strong data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"467\">RJ Cole<\/strong>, the 1999-born guard who impressed over two seasons with <strong data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"542\">Rytas Vilnius<\/strong>, recently battling in the Lithuanian league finals against Zalgiris Kaunas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"986\">Cole edged out <strong data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"650\">Skylar Mays<\/strong> (formerly of Fenerbahce) in the club\u2019s internal rankings. The former <strong data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"735\">Connecticut<\/strong> product averaged <strong data-start=\"753\" data-end=\"799\">11.8 points, 3.4 assists, and 1.5 rebounds<\/strong> in the Lithuanian league and <strong data-start=\"829\" data-end=\"857\">15.1 points, 3.9 assists<\/strong> in the Basketball Champions League. Professionally, Cole has already played in Greece and Germany before his stint in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fonte: La Nuova Venezia &#8211; Pep Malaguti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American point guard, formerly of Rytas Vilnius, is nearing an agreement with the Italian club. Only a shooting guard remains to complete the 2025\u201326 roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":448185,"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":[197,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/RJ-Cole.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448186","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=448186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448186"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448186"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448186"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}