{"id":449660,"date":"2025-07-04T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=449660"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:42:17","slug":"derek-willis-joins-paris-basketball-on-a-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/derek-willis-joins-paris-basketball-on-a-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Willis joins Paris Basketball on a two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1727\"><strong data-start=\"1510\" data-end=\"1526\">Derek Willis<\/strong> has officially joined <strong data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1569\">Paris Basketball<\/strong> on a two-year contract for the 2025\/2026 and 2026\/2027 seasons. The 2.06m American forward arrives after gaining EuroLeague experience with <strong data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1726\">Anadolu Efes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"1964\">Originally from Louisville and a product of the <strong data-start=\"1777\" data-end=\"1798\">Kentucky Wildcats<\/strong>, Willis brings size, outside shooting, and physical presence to Paris.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2151\">The arrival of <strong data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"1997\">Derek Willis<\/strong> underlines Paris Basketball\u2019s ambitions to solidify its EuroLeague presence. The club welcomed him warmly with a \u201cWelcome to the Paris Basketball Derek!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">WELCOME <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekxwillis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@derekxwillis<\/a> !<br \/>\nLe Paris Basketball est fier d\u2019annoncer l\u2019arriv\u00e9e de Derek Willis en provenance de l\u2019Efes Anadolu ! LET\u2019S GO \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zd63rKq8it\">pic.twitter.com\/zd63rKq8it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paris Basketball (@ParisBasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParisBasketball\/status\/1941076796474270207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 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>Paris Basketball signs Derek Willis for two seasons, adding EuroLeague experience to its roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":449659,"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":[237,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-449660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Capture-decran-2025-07-04-a-09.38.42.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449660","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=449660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449660"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=449660"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=449660"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=449660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}