{"id":449902,"date":"2025-07-06T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=449902"},"modified":"2025-07-06T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:40:45","slug":"nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/b>The door remains open for Jonas Valanciunas\u2019 potential return to the EuroLeague, with the Lithuanian center hoping to sign a lucrative three-year deal with Panathinaikos<\/a>. However, there’s a significant roadblock: Valanciunas still has two years left on his contract with the Denver Nuggets \u2014 the second year being non-guaranteed \u2014 and cannot join another club without the Nuggets\u2019 approval.<\/p>\n

According to Marc Stein<\/a>, the Nuggets are determined to keep the Lithuanian big man. Denver had been targeting Valanciunas for some time. It\u2019s worth noting that the deal with Sacramento wouldn’t have been possible if the Nuggets hadn\u2019t previously traded Michael Porter Jr. to the Brooklyn Nets to create the necessary space.<\/p>\n

This situation is as unusual as it is complex. It\u2019s really rare for a player on a contending NBA team to seek a return to Europe. In Sasha Vezenkov\u2019s case, a similar move was made possible thanks to the Raptors\u2019 willingness to let him go. Denver, on the other hand, has no intention of parting with Valanciunas.<\/p>\n

After being eliminated by the eventual champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round of the playoffs, Nikola Jokic reportedly urged Denver\u2019s front office to improve the 2nd unit \u2014 following the blueprint of the teams that reached the NBA Finals. The acquisitions of Valanciunas, Bruce Brown, and Tim Hardaway Jr. align with that strategy, with Denver placing much of its limited resources into securing Valanciunas.<\/p>\n

While the Nuggets\u2019 stance is more than justifiable, a standoff would be counterproductive for all involved. The trade is expected to be officially completed today, but it remains to be seen who \u2014 the player or the franchise \u2014 will blink first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nuggets have acquired the Lithuanian big man from the Kings in exchange for Dario Saric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":449901,"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":[199,249,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-449902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"yoast_head":"\nNuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nuggets have acquired the Lithuanian big man from the Kings in exchange for Dario Saric\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sportando\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"455\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dario Skerletic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dario Skerletic\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dario Skerletic\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0\"},\"headline\":\"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"EuroLeague\",\"Greece\",\"NBA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/\",\"name\":\"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png\",\"width\":556,\"height\":455,\"caption\":\"jonas valanciunas nuggets\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/\",\"name\":\"Sportando\",\"description\":\"Risultati di basket, notizie di pallacanestro, classifiche, Basket mercato, statistiche, roster, rumors NBA e tanto altro sul mondo della Pallacanestro\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0\",\"name\":\"Dario Skerletic\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dario Skerletic\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sportando.basketball\\\/en\\\/author\\\/darioskerletic\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando","og_description":"The Nuggets have acquired the Lithuanian big man from the Kings in exchange for Dario Saric","og_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/","og_site_name":"Sportando","article_published_time":"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":556,"height":455,"url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dario Skerletic","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dario Skerletic","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/"},"author":{"name":"Dario Skerletic","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0"},"headline":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas","datePublished":"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/"},"wordCount":285,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","articleSection":["EuroLeague","Greece","NBA"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/","name":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas - Sportando","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","datePublished":"2025-07-06T08:40:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","width":556,"height":455,"caption":"jonas valanciunas nuggets"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nuggets-reportedly-determined-to-keep-jonas-valanciunas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nuggets reportedly determined to keep Jonas Valanciunas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/","name":"Sportando","description":"Risultati di basket, notizie di pallacanestro, classifiche, Basket mercato, statistiche, roster, rumors NBA e tanto altro sul mondo della Pallacanestro","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/#\/schema\/person\/8fc170d2dd59254ef27b20a20b728cd0","name":"Dario Skerletic","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/68195eea3df2f4cc1c992acb5d182d4e87c305c1a8bb6948975543c0b63f651f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dario Skerletic"},"url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/author\/darioskerletic\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/jonas-valanciunas-nuggets.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449902","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449902"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=449902"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=449902"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=449902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}