{"id":464970,"date":"2025-10-17T14:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464970"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:51:18","slug":"from-nba-chaos-to-euroleague-calm-kai-jones-finds-footing-at-efes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/from-nba-chaos-to-euroleague-calm-kai-jones-finds-footing-at-efes\/","title":{"rendered":"From NBA chaos to EuroLeague calm: Kai Jones finds footing at Efes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1069\" data-end=\"1279\">In Efes\u2019 win at <strong data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1099\">Olympiacos<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1101\" data-end=\"1114\">Kai Jones<\/strong> impacted beyond the box score: <strong data-start=\"1146\" data-end=\"1160\">7 rebounds<\/strong>, 1 block, two dunks and <strong data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1195\">PIR 13<\/strong>. He became the <strong data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1255\">first Bahamian to play in the EuroLeague<\/strong>, a marker of renewal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1483\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1302\">It\u2019s going well\u2026<\/strong> I\u2019m glad I chose to come here,\u201d he told <strong data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1357\">BasketNews<\/strong>. After <strong data-start=\"1365\" data-end=\"1402\">Charlotte, Los Angeles and Dallas<\/strong>, he rebuilt around routine, team bonds and a game that\u2019s more than highlights.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1656\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1513\">It\u2019s really groupy ball<\/strong>,\u201d Jones said. From public turmoil with the Hornets to Istanbul\u2019s structure, his mission now is simple: <strong data-start=\"1617\" data-end=\"1653\">represent the Bahamas with pride<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1708\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1678\">Source: BasketNews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamian big embraces Anadolu Efes stability and a new identity after turbulent NBA years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":460115,"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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/94844131-328f-4c24-8866-038ee7eb0527.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464970","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=464970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464970"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464970"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464970"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}