{"id":452791,"date":"2025-07-24T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452791"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:39:08","slug":"skylar-mays-reportedly-nearing-deal-with-buducnost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/skylar-mays-reportedly-nearing-deal-with-buducnost\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar Mays reportedly nearing deal with Budu\u0107nost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"461\">Following a strong run in the <strong data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"246\">AdmiralBet ABA League<\/strong>\u2014finishing first in the regular season and reaching the finals\u2014<strong data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"332\">Budu\u0107nost Podgorica<\/strong> is aiming even higher. According to sources close to the club, <strong data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"411\">Skylar Mays<\/strong> is on the verge of becoming their new lead guard.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"746\">The <strong data-start=\"467\" data-end=\"492\">28-year-old playmaker<\/strong>, who has NBA experience, reportedly received a positive response to his contract demands from the Montenegrin team. His addition would be a major step in reshaping the roster of coach <strong data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"694\">Andrej \u017dakelj<\/strong>, especially after the departure of McKinley Wright.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"1040\">So far this summer, Budu\u0107nost has added <strong data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"809\">Oleksandr Kovliar<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"829\">Axel Bouteille<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"854\">Jerry Boutsiele<\/strong>. The next priority is to strengthen the roster with a strong point guard and a reliable center. If finalized, the Mays signing would make headlines across the regional basketball scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1101\"><a href=\"https:\/\/telesport.rs\/2025\/07\/24\/saznajemo-buducnost-blizu-pojacanja-ozbiljne-biografije\/\"><strong>Source Telesport<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1159\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a standout ABA League season, Budu\u0107nost is close to landing a high-profile floor general<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":410913,"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":[191,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-eurocup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/Skylar-Mays-Fenerbahce-e1730041732762.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452791","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=452791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452791"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452791"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452791"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}