{"id":450085,"date":"2025-07-07T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450085"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:35:35","slug":"virtus-bologna-signs-smailagic-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-signs-smailagic-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna signs Smailagic on two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1526\"><strong data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1370\">Alen Smailagic<\/strong>, 24, is set to become the new center for <strong data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1430\">Virtus Bologna<\/strong>. The Serbian big man has left Zalgiris and has started medicals at Isokinetic ahead of signing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1528\" data-end=\"1715\">Virtus quickly closed the deal, securing Smailagic on a two-year contract with an option for a third season. Last EuroLeague season, he averaged 8.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1717\" data-end=\"1900\">After his NBA stint with the <strong data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1771\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong>, Smailagic returned to Europe with Partizan and Zalgiris, proving himself as a high-impact player for <strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1892\">coach Ivanovic&#8217;s<\/strong> Virtus.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1117\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Basket\/07-07-2025\/virtus-preso-smailagic-centro-ex-golden-state.shtml\"><em data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1117\">Source: Gazzetta dello Sport<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtus Bologna lands Alen Smailagic, former Warriors and Zalgiris center, on a two-year contract with option<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":449876,"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":[199,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/MAN3654.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450085","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=450085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450085"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450085"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450085"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}