{"id":476156,"date":"2025-12-28T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476156"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:36:13","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-the-franciscos-case-is-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-the-franciscos-case-is-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas, the Francisco&#8217;s case is closed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Following <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">Zalgiris Kaunas&#8217; victory<\/b> in the derby against <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"56\">Rytas Vilnius (90-81)<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"79\">Sylvain Francisco<\/b> sought to clarify the recent tensions with coach <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"146\">Tomas Masiulis<\/b>. 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