{"id":452413,"date":"2025-07-21T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452413"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:07:05","slug":"tautvydas-sabonis-named-head-coach-of-london-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tautvydas-sabonis-named-head-coach-of-london-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tautvydas Sabonis named head coach of London Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1386\">The <strong data-start=\"1141\" data-end=\"1157\">London Lions<\/strong> have appointed <strong data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1194\">Tautvydas Sabonis<\/strong> as their new <strong data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1222\">head coach<\/strong> for the 2025\/26 season. At just 33, Sabonis comes from <strong data-start=\"1278\" data-end=\"1297\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong>, where he quickly climbed the coaching ranks after a solid playing career across Europe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1388\" data-end=\"1626\">Known for his sharp tactics and player development, Sabonis brings fresh vision and energy to the London-based club. \u201cIt\u2019s his first head coaching job, and he\u2019s doing it in the heart of London,\u201d the team proudly announced on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1628\" data-end=\"1759\">With Sabonis at the helm, the <strong data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1667\">Lions<\/strong> aim to raise their European profile and continue their upward path in the basketball world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re proud to announce Tautvydas Sabonis as the new Head Coach of the London Lions for the 25\/26 season. \ud83e\udd81<\/p>\n<p>At just 33 years old, Sabonis joins the Lions from Lithuanian giants \u017dalgiris Kaunas, where he quickly rose through the coaching ranks after a successful playing career\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b11Q9x4rrV\">pic.twitter.com\/b11Q9x4rrV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 London Lions Basketball (@LondonLions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonLions\/status\/1947250594432819576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 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>Former Zalgiris assistant takes over in his first top coaching role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":452412,"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":[84,69],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-regno-unito","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/07\/GwYGFHfWIAE4ceq.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452413","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=452413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452413"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452413"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452413"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}