{"id":450801,"date":"2025-07-11T11:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=450801"},"modified":"2025-07-11T11:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:41:53","slug":"adelman-valanciunas-will-be-our-point-center-behind-jokic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/adelman-valanciunas-will-be-our-point-center-behind-jokic\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelman: \u201cValanciunas will be our point center behind Jokic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1869\"><strong data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1597\">David Adelman<\/strong> shared his excitement about <strong data-start=\"1626\" data-end=\"1674\">Jonas Valanciunas joining the Denver Nuggets<\/strong>, calling him a \u201c<strong data-start=\"1691\" data-end=\"1707\">point center<\/strong>\u201d who expands offensive options behind <strong data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1762\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong>. \u201cYou can play combo guards without a true point guard and still run five-out offense,\u201d Adelman explained.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"2167\">\u201cHe can post up, play from the elbow, and he\u2019s such a skilled player,\u201d the coach added. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve had a backup with a similar skillset to Jokic since DeMarcus Cousins.\u201d Adelman emphasized that Valanciunas brings \u201cexperience and quality to raise the level in practices and games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2169\" data-end=\"2383\">Despite <strong data-start=\"2177\" data-end=\"2195\">Panathinaikos\u2019<\/strong> interest, the Nuggets are set to confirm the signing of the Lithuanian center, a veteran of 995 NBA games. \u201cWe are excited to add a player who can help us immediately,\u201d Adelman concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Adelman welcomes Jonas Valanciunas to the Nuggets: \u201cHe has Jokic-like skills, we can play five-out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":449570,"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":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-450801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Valanciunas.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450801","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=450801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450801"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=450801"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=450801"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=450801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}