{"id":461609,"date":"2025-09-27T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=461609"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:43:15","slug":"speedy-smith-joins-merkezefendi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/speedy-smith-joins-merkezefendi\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedy Smith joins Merkezefendi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merkezefendi has officially signed point guard Speedy Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The former Louisiana Tech floor general is coming off a season split between Hapoel Jerusalem, where he averaged 7.8 points and 5.2 assists in EuroCup play, and Turk Telekom, posting 6.9 points and 4.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Yukatel Merkezefendi Belediyesi, ABD&#8217;li oyun kurucu Speedy Smith&#8217;i transfer etti<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye Sigorta Basketbol S\u00fcper Ligi ekiplerinden Yukatel Merkezefendi Belediyesi Basket, kadrosunu ABD\u2019li oyun kurucu Speedy Smith ile g\u00fc\u00e7lendirdi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NviUuJ6yGT\">pic.twitter.com\/NviUuJ6yGT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yukatel Merkezefendi Belediyesi (@merkezefendigsk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merkezefendigsk\/status\/1971136250796179871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 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>Smith will continue his career in BSL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":461608,"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":[31],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/G1rh-ODWoAAWnyy.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461609","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=461609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461609"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461609"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461609"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}