{"id":449403,"date":"2025-07-03T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=449403"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:00:03","slug":"chris-duarte-strengthens-unicajas-perimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chris-duarte-strengthens-unicajas-perimeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Duarte strengthens Unicaja\u2019s perimeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"4e07626c-f8c6-4ce7-bdd6-8cfb864e77bf\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light\">\n<p data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"1256\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"712\" data-end=\"730\">Unicaja Malaga<\/strong> has signed <strong data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"758\">Chris Duarte<\/strong> (6\u20195&#8243;, 28 years old) to a <strong data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"829\">two-year deal with an option for a third<\/strong>. Duarte joins from <strong data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"872\">Vaqueros de Bayam\u00f3n<\/strong>, where he averaged <strong data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"938\">19.5 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 4.8 assists<\/strong>, earning All-League First Team honors in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"1256\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Selected <strong data-start=\"1002\" data-end=\"1040\">13th overall in the 2021 NBA Draft<\/strong> by the Indiana Pacers, Duarte brings <strong data-start=\"1078\" data-end=\"1144\">NBA experience from his time with the Pacers, Kings, and Bulls<\/strong>, adding proven scoring, shooting range, and defensive aggression to Unicaja\u2019s backcourt for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\">\n<div class=\"touch:-me-2 touch:-ms-3.5 -ms-2.5 -me-1 flex flex-wrap items-center gap-y-4 p-1 select-none touch:w-[calc(100%+--spacing(3.5))] -mt-1 w-[calc(100%+--spacing(2.5))] duration-[1.5s] focus-within:transition-none hover:transition-none pointer-events-none [mask-image:linear-gradient(to_right,black_33%,transparent_66%)] [mask-size:300%_100%] [mask-position:100%_0%] motion-safe:transition-[mask-position] group-hover\/turn-messages:pointer-events-auto group-hover\/turn-messages:[mask-position:0_0] group-focus-within\/turn-messages:pointer-events-auto group-focus-within\/turn-messages:[mask-position:0_0] has-data-[state=open]:pointer-events-auto has-data-[state=open]:[mask-position:0_0]\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udea8FICHAJE\ud83d\udea8<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc0 Chris Duarte, talento y anotaci\u00f3n para el Unicaja<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udc9cBienvenido Chris<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UnicajaCB (@unicajaCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unicajaCB\/status\/1940675070797795551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 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>Unicaja Malaga has signed Chris Duarte (6\u20195&#8243;, 28 years old) to a two-year deal with an option for a third<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":449402,"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":[305,195],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-449403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-basketball-champions-league","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Gu6oKKMXYAAvIkO.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449403","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=449403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449403"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=449403"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=449403"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=449403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}