{"id":452365,"date":"2025-07-21T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452365"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:10:59","slug":"ricky-rubio-returns-to-joventut-badalona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ricky-rubio-returns-to-joventut-badalona\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Rubio returns to Joventut Badalona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"891\"><strong data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1108\">Ricky Rubio<\/strong> is returning to <strong data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1146\">Joventut Badalona<\/strong>, the team where he began his professional career in 2005. According to journalist <strong data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1249\">Xavi Ballesteros<\/strong>, the agreement was finalized on Friday during a dinner with sporting director <strong data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1343\">Jordi Mart\u00ed<\/strong>, head coach <strong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1370\">Dani Miret<\/strong>, and owner <strong data-start=\"1382\" data-end=\"1398\">Tom\u00e0s Dauder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"891\">After a year away from the game to focus on mental health, Rubio is ready to play again. He previously played four seasons with Badalona before moving to FC Barcelona in 2009 and then to the NBA in 2011. Now, he\u2019s back where it all started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran guard is set to make his comeback with the club where it all began 20 years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":392516,"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":[305,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-eurocup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/Ricky-Rubio.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452365","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=452365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452365"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452365"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452365"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}