{"id":450767,"date":"2025-07-11T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450767"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:46:05","slug":"darius-thompson-reportedly-set-to-join-valencia-after-leaving-efes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/darius-thompson-reportedly-set-to-join-valencia-after-leaving-efes\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Thompson reportedly set to join Valencia after leaving Efes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1530\" data-end=\"1779\"><strong data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1564\">Darius Thompson<\/strong> is finalizing a deal with <strong data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"1610\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> after agreeing to a buyout with <strong data-start=\"1643\" data-end=\"1668\">Anadolu Efes Istanbul<\/strong>. The point guard, under contract through 2025-26, chose Valencia despite interest from other EuroLeague teams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1781\" data-end=\"2017\">Thompson averaged 9.5 points, 4.5 assists, and 11.7 PIR across 39 <strong data-start=\"1847\" data-end=\"1861\">EuroLeague<\/strong> games last season, with a standout 19-point, 6-assist game against Bayern Munich. He played a key role during Shane Larkin\u2019s absence earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2019\" data-end=\"2227\">After his breakout year with <strong data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2060\">Baskonia<\/strong>, Thompson confirmed his ability as a top playmaker in the EuroLeague with Efes. Now, he is set to continue his career with Valencia, aiming for another strong season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1246\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-227680-darius-thompson-set-to-sign-with-valencia.html\"><em data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1246\">Source: BasketNews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Thompson is close to signing with Valencia Basket after a buyout with Anadolu Efes, staying in the EuroLeague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":387889,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Darius-Thompson.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450767","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=450767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450767"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450767"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450767"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}