{"id":456575,"date":"2025-08-25T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456575"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:20:56","slug":"pablo-laso-reflects-on-baskonia-exit-open-to-spain-nt-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pablo-laso-reflects-on-baskonia-exit-open-to-spain-nt-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Laso reflects on Baskonia exit, open to Spain NT role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"456\"><strong data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"181\">Pablo Laso<\/strong>, one of Europe\u2019s most respected coaches, shared his thoughts with <em data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"258\">Gigantes<\/em> about his recent departure from <strong data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"303\">Baskonia<\/strong> and his possible future with the <strong data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"362\">Spanish national team<\/strong>. \u201cI returned to Vitoria with great enthusiasm, but things didn\u2019t go as planned,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"743\">After leaving <strong data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"487\">Real Madrid<\/strong>, Laso led <strong data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"515\">Bayern Munich<\/strong> to a league and cup double before joining Baskonia for the 2024\u201325 season. \u201cThey told me in July I wouldn\u2019t continue, and I was sad. I believed in the project,\u201d said Laso, who exited after club talks with other coaches emerged.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"983\">On succeeding <strong data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"778\">Sergio Scariolo<\/strong> after EuroBasket 2025, Laso said, \u201cBeing considered for the national team is a reward for my career. I\u2019m proud.\u201d Spain will face <strong data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"953\">Italy, Greece, Georgia, Bosnia and Cyprus<\/strong> in Group C of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1030\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran coach looks back on his recent club experiences and addresses national team speculation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":407130,"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":[98,33],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-spagna"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/Pablo-Laso.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456575","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=456575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456575"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456575"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456575"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}