{"id":464667,"date":"2025-10-15T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464667"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:53:23","slug":"sportando-exclusive-anadolu-efes-sporting-director-denies-rumours-about-rolands-smits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sportando-exclusive-anadolu-efes-sporting-director-denies-rumours-about-rolands-smits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportando exclusive &#8211; Anadolu Efes sporting director denies rumours about Rolands Smits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolands Smits is not leaving Istanbul. Anadolu Efes sporting director Ismail \u015eenol has denied rumours of the Latvian forward&#8217;s departure in an exclusive interview with Sportando.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abRolands Smits is an integral and highly valued member of our team, both on and off the court. He is under contract with Anadolu Efes, and we have absolutely no intention of parting ways with him\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian forward has averaged 4.5 points and 6 rebounds in the BSL and 5 points and 2.3 rebounds in the EuroLeague so far this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd25 EXCLUSIVE &#8211; Anadolu Efes Sport Director Ismail \u015eenol denies rumours of a possible transfer of Latvian forward Rolands Smits.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f \u00abRolands Smits is an integral and highly valued member of our team, both on and off the court. He is under contract with Anadolu Efes, and we have\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NgA6V4fzCk\">pic.twitter.com\/NgA6V4fzCk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alessandro Luigi Maggi (@AlessandroMagg4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlessandroMagg4\/status\/1978477801498931262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 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>Rolands Smits is not leaving Istanbul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":464653,"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":[315,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Rolands-Smits.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464667","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=464667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464667"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464667"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464667"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}