{"id":450420,"date":"2025-07-09T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450420"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:48:11","slug":"chris-jones-set-to-join-hapoel-tel-aviv-as-new-floor-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chris-jones-set-to-join-hapoel-tel-aviv-as-new-floor-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Jones set to join Hapoel Tel Aviv as new floor general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"730\"><strong data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"538\">Chris Jones<\/strong> is nearing a deal to become the new floor general for <strong data-start=\"593\" data-end=\"612\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-227612-hapoel-tel-aviv-nearing-deal-with-its-new-floor-general.html#google_vignette\">BasketNews<\/a>. The 32-year-old guard averaged 10.6 points and 4.5 assists in EuroCup action with Valencia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"942\">Jones played a key role for Valencia over three seasons, including a strong semifinal against Hapoel with 10.5 points and 5 assists. His passing ability will provide immediate leadership for Hapoel\u2019s backcourt.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1137\">The veteran has EuroLeague experience with Maccabi, ASVEL, and Valencia, averaging 11.1 points and 3.7 assists across his career. Jones&#8217; move signals Hapoel\u2019s ambitions for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran point guard Chris Jones is close to leaving Valencia for Hapoel Tel Aviv, strengthening the Israeli club&#8217;s backcourt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":384813,"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":[305,199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","category-israel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/2024Ponticelli29Febbraio145.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450420","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=450420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450420"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450420"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450420"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}