{"id":454897,"date":"2025-08-10T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=454897"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:07:28","slug":"virtus-bologna-close-to-signing-kai-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-close-to-signing-kai-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna close to signing Kai Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtus Bologna is close to penning a deal with Kai Jones, sources tell Sportando.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Virtus Bologna is close to sign Kai Jones, I am told.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamian big man played 12 NBA games with the Mavs and 28 with the Clippers last season. In the G League, he averaged 12.5 points and 7.3 rebounds in 15 games with San Diego. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGdvkziE9U\">pic.twitter.com\/qGdvkziE9U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alessandro Luigi Maggi (@AlessandroMagg4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlessandroMagg4\/status\/1954534376030564663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bahamian big man Kai Jones, a 2021 first-round pick, has resurrected his NBA journey after being waived by the Los Angeles Clippers in March 2025. He signed a two-way contract with the Dallas Mavericks on March 2, 2025. In his debut with Dallas the following day, Jones delivered an impressive performance: 21 points, 8 rebounds, and 1 block in just one game. <\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Mavericks, he\u2019s emerged as a bright spot in a season plagued by injuries, averaging 14.2 points and 8.6 rebounds. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, his NBA career included stints with the Charlotte Hornets, where he struggled to find his footing and was ultimately released in October 2023 following controversial social media activity and a public trade request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jones headed to Italy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":454896,"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":[82,26],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-454897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Kai_Jones_defends_RJ_Nembhard_cropped.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454897","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454897"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=454897"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=454897"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=454897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}