{"id":451698,"date":"2025-07-16T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=451698"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:34:55","slug":"official-saliou-niang-joins-virtus-bologna-on-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-saliou-niang-joins-virtus-bologna-on-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Saliou Niang joins Virtus Bologna on multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna S.p.A. announced the arrival of Saliou Niang on a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"278\">The talented forward was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 58th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"280\" data-end=\"427\">Niang spent last season with Dolomiti Energia Trento, averaging 7.9 points and 5.2 rebounds in 20 minutes per game across both the LBA and EuroCup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"623\"><strong data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"472\">Niang\u2019s first words as a Virtus player:<\/strong><br data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"475\" \/>&#8220;I\u2019m very happy to join Bologna and a club like Virtus. Starting this new chapter means a lot to me, and I can\u2019t wait to share it with my new fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc12 \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc16 \u2728<br \/>\nSaliou Niang \u00e8 un nuovo giocatore dei Campioni d\u2019Italia \ud83d\udcaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cK8lYx5wkn\">pic.twitter.com\/cK8lYx5wkn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virtus Bologna (@VirtusBo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VirtusBo\/status\/1945504222050451878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talented forward was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 58th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":451693,"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":[82,26],"tags":[],"rumors":[134,135],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-451698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/Gv_JDO4XoAAoC98.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451698","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=451698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451698"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=451698"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=451698"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=451698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}