{"id":453332,"date":"2025-07-28T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=453332"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:48","slug":"lukas-lekavicius-officially-leaves-zalgiris-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lukas-lekavicius-officially-leaves-zalgiris-kaunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukas Lekavicius officially leaves Zalgiris Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lukas Lekavicius officially leaves Zalgiris Kaunas.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1994, Lekavicius came up through the Zalgiris youth system and has played for the first team since October 2015, with the exception of two seasons with Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">From a rising talent to one of the longest-serving Zalgiris players &#8211; Lukas Lekavicius is leaving the team. Thank you for your loyalty, consistency, and every moment in green-and-white. \ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H27GuPJ1Xj\">pic.twitter.com\/H27GuPJ1Xj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BC Zalgiris Kaunas (@bczalgiris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bczalgiris\/status\/1949825418363613561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 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>Born in 1994, Lekavicius came up through the Zalgiris youth system and has played for the first team since October 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":453331,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-453332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania","typology-official"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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