{"id":454165,"date":"2025-08-04T10:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=454165"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:46:36","slug":"official-lonnie-walker-iv-joins-maccabi-tel-aviv-on-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-lonnie-walker-iv-joins-maccabi-tel-aviv-on-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Lonnie Walker IV joins Maccabi Tel Aviv on Multi-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Tel Aviv has officially announced the signing of <strong>Lonnie Walker IV<\/strong>, marking the guard\u2019s return to European basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>26-year-old<\/strong> has inked a <strong>three-year contract<\/strong> with the Israeli powerhouse after splitting last season between <strong>\u017dalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> and the <strong>Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> in the NBA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are very proud to welcome Lonnie Walker to our family,\u201d said Maccabi general manager <strong>Claudio Coldebella<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u201cBringing a talent of this level to Tel Aviv \u2014 a player who has been selected and tested in the NBA \u2014 is a strong and clear statement about our ambitions to compete at the highest levels and excite our fans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLonnie\u2019s arrival is not an isolated move but an important piece that perfectly fits into the mosaic we are building here with vision and strategy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are building a team with a clear identity, based on talent, character, and ambition,\u201d Coldebella continued.<br \/>\n\u201cThe resilience he has demonstrated throughout his career blends perfectly with the work ethic and determination that are the pillars of the yellow-and-blue club. His dedication guarantees that he is never satisfied, always striving to achieve his goals, improve personally, and help the team grow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Heeeeeere&#8217;s Lonnie! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lonniewalker_4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lonniewalker_4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kzlz9yoV1v\">pic.twitter.com\/Kzlz9yoV1v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv BC \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\u200b (@MaccabiTLVBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaccabiTLVBC\/status\/1952288608767127685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Time to pick up \ud83d\udd3c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ua1IwtyA2I\">pic.twitter.com\/ua1IwtyA2I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv BC \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1\u200b (@MaccabiTLVBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaccabiTLVBC\/status\/1952284741862113336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 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>Coldebella: \u201cLonnie\u2019s arrival is not an isolated move but an important piece that perfectly fits into the mosaic we are building here with vision and strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":454164,"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":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[407,175],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-454165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/GxfrVqtWIAEFfk6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454165","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=454165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454165"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=454165"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=454165"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=454165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}