{"id":455025,"date":"2025-08-11T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=455025"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:21:39","slug":"virtus-bologna-reportedly-reach-verbal-agreement-with-kai-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-reportedly-reach-verbal-agreement-with-kai-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Bologna Reportedly Reach Verbal Agreement with Kai Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Andrea__Calzoni\/status\/1954919868614287596\">Andrea Calzoni<\/a>, Virtus Bologna reached a verbal agreement with Kai Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The player has been granted a few more days to pursue opportunities in the NBA, but there is optimism within the \u201cV-Nere\u201d\u00a0 about his arrival in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/virtus-bologna-close-to-signing-kai-jones\/\">we first reported<\/a> on the ongoing negotiations between Bologna and the former NBA first-round pick. Jones finished last season with the Dallas Mavericks, making the most of a series of frontcourt injuries to produce 11.4 points and 6.6 rebounds in 21 minutes per game, shooting an outstanding 83% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>An elite-level athlete by European standards, coach Dusko Ivanovic could be the right person to put to rest any off-court concerns surrounding him.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, Jones&#8217; best dunks in G League:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kai Jones showed NO MERCY for the rim! \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n<p>The former NBA first round pick was a nightly dunking machine while on Two-Way contracts with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAClippers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@laclippers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dallasmavs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dallasmavs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jPhBNxSQC2\">pic.twitter.com\/jPhBNxSQC2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA G League (@nbagleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbagleague\/status\/1929565679709012212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 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>An elite-level athlete by European standards, coach Dusko Ivanovic could be the right person to put to rest any off-court concerns surrounding him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":455024,"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":[134,135],"typology":[21,19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-455025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/kai-jones-photo-fiba.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455025","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=455025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=455025"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=455025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}