{"id":465561,"date":"2025-10-21T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465561"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:19:47","slug":"scariolo-drops-bruno-fernando-real-madrid-looking-for-a-new-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/scariolo-drops-bruno-fernando-real-madrid-looking-for-a-new-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Scariolo Drops Bruno Fernando, Real Madrid Looking for a New Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1273\"><strong data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1048\">Real Madrid<\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1074\">Sergio Scariolo<\/strong> has effectively ruled out <strong data-start=\"1101\" data-end=\"1119\">Bruno Fernando<\/strong> from his plans. The Angolan center didn\u2019t play against Burgos and won\u2019t be on the roster versus Maccabi, marking a clear split between player and club.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1479\">The team has been unhappy with his performance for weeks. Despite his $2 million salary, Madrid is exploring the market for a replacement, though quality options are limited at this stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1737\">Scariolo reportedly never wanted Fernando since taking over in July. With <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1591\">Tavares as the only true big man<\/strong> and Garuba and Almansa as backups, Madrid prefers a European or Cotonou player, but may consider paying a buyout for someone already in Europe.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"951\"><a href=\"https:\/\/encestando.es\/scariolo-ha-puesto-la-cruz-a-bruno-fernando-y-el-real-madrid-acelera-la-contratacion-de-un-pivot\/\"><em data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"899\">Source: Encestando.es<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid coach Sergio Scariolo has effectively ruled out Bruno Fernando from his plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":432833,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/STP04315.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465561","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=465561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465561"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465561"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465561"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}