{"id":473576,"date":"2025-12-10T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=473576"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:11:03","slug":"olympiacos-close-to-monte-morris-deal-still-targeting-a-big-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-close-to-monte-morris-deal-still-targeting-a-big-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos close to Monte Morris deal, still targeting a big man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1271\" data-end=\"1575\"><strong data-start=\"1271\" data-end=\"1285\">Olympiacos<\/strong> are in <strong data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1311\">advanced talks<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"1317\" data-end=\"1333\">Monte Morris<\/strong>, 30, to round out their <strong data-start=\"1358\" data-end=\"1382\">point guard rotation<\/strong>. The American floor general has been a free agent after six games with the <strong data-start=\"1458\" data-end=\"1476\">Indiana Pacers<\/strong> from November 8 to 17, where he averaged 3 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 10.8 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1926\">Previously, Morris played for the <strong data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1663\">Nuggets, Wizards, Pistons, Timberwolves and Suns<\/strong>, putting together five strong NBA seasons at 10.5 points, 39% from three, 4 assists and just 0.8 turnovers in 25.8 minutes. A guard who can shoot from anywhere and get to the rim, his <strong data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"1871\">motivation and role<\/strong> are the main question marks after two quieter years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1928\" data-end=\"2277\">Olympiacos had already considered <strong data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"1972\">Morris<\/strong> a few months back and are also seeking a <strong data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2025\">big man<\/strong> to complement <strong data-start=\"2040\" data-end=\"2059\">Peters\u2013Vezenkov<\/strong> at the four and <strong data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2110\">Milutinov, Hall, Antetokounmpo<\/strong> at the five. At <strong data-start=\"2127\" data-end=\"2152\">8-5 in the EuroLeague<\/strong> (with one game in hand vs Fenerbahce), the Reds have clearly hit the gas for a <strong data-start=\"2232\" data-end=\"2256\">double quality boost<\/strong> heading into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympiacos are in advanced talks with Monte Morris, 30, to round out their point guard rotation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":473575,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-473576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Monte-Morris-Olympiacos.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473576","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=473576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473576"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=473576"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=473576"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=473576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}