{"id":448995,"date":"2025-07-01T09:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448995"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:27:45","slug":"fenerbahce-receives-buyout-as-nigel-hayes-davis-moves-to-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahce-receives-buyout-as-nigel-hayes-davis-moves-to-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce receives buyout as Nigel Hayes-Davis moves to NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1900\"><strong data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1682\">Fenerbahce<\/strong> will receive a buyout after <strong data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1732\">Nigel Hayes-Davis<\/strong> activated a \u20ac1 million NBA clause to sign with the Phoenix Suns, BasketNews reports. The move ends Hayes-Davis\u2019 run with Fenerbahce, where he was a cornerstone player.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1902\" data-end=\"2161\">Hayes-Davis averaged 16.7 points and 5.3 rebounds last season, leading <strong data-start=\"1973\" data-end=\"2011\">Fenerbahce to the EuroLeague title<\/strong> and earning Final Four MVP honors with 23 points and 9 rebounds in the final. He was named to the All-EuroLeague First Team for two straight seasons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2163\" data-end=\"2385\">The buyout clears around \u20ac3 million in payroll for Fenerbahce, which plans to pursue a top-level replacement. Hayes-Davis departs after also setting the EuroLeague single-game scoring record with 50 points two seasons ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fenerbahce&#8217;s Nigel Hayes-Davis \u2013 the 2025 Euroleague champion and finals MVP as well as Turkish Cup champion and MVP \u2013 has agreed to a fully guaranteed one-year contract with the Phoenix Suns, sources tell ESPN. The two-time Euroleague first-teamer returns to the States and NBA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4f75izENgM\">pic.twitter.com\/4f75izENgM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939844900217930173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 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>Nigel Hayes-Davis leaves Fenerbahce for the NBA, activating a \u20ac1M clause. The Turkish club will now seek a high-profile replacement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":414790,"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":[315,199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[407,175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/11\/STP05675.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448995","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=448995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448995"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448995"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448995"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}