{"id":476540,"date":"2025-12-30T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476540"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:35:12","slug":"fenerbahce-closing-in-on-chris-silva-deal-after-dominant-bcl-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahce-closing-in-on-chris-silva-deal-after-dominant-bcl-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce closing in on Chris Silva deal after dominant BCL run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1850\"><strong data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1624\">Fenerbahce Istanbul<\/strong> is nearing the signing of <strong data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1666\">Chris Silva<\/strong>, with BasketNews sources confirming the deal is being finalized and the <strong data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1753\">AEK Athens<\/strong> center has committed. <strong data-start=\"1776\" data-end=\"1797\">Yagiz Sabuncuoglu<\/strong> of Sports Digitale was first to report the transfer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1852\" data-end=\"2185\">Silva has delivered a standout <strong data-start=\"1883\" data-end=\"1914\">Basketball Champions League<\/strong> season: <strong data-start=\"1923\" data-end=\"1938\">14.8 points<\/strong> on 70% two-point shooting, <strong data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"1982\">8.0 rebounds<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1984\" data-end=\"1998\">1.6 steals<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2003\" data-end=\"2017\">1.0 blocks<\/strong>, plus a <strong data-start=\"2026\" data-end=\"2032\">21<\/strong> efficiency rating. He was named <strong data-start=\"2065\" data-end=\"2088\">BCL group phase MVP<\/strong>, ranked third in efficiency, and recently posted a 33-efficiency performance vs Patrioti Levice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2440\">In Greece, he also produced a notable December game vs <strong data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2256\">Olympiakos<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"2262\" data-end=\"2275\">31 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2277\" data-end=\"2291\">9 rebounds<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2304\">39<\/strong> efficiency score in a 7-point loss. Drafted in 2019 with <strong data-start=\"2362\" data-end=\"2378\">70 NBA games<\/strong> on his resume, Silva is now set for his <strong data-start=\"2419\" data-end=\"2439\">EuroLeague debut<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BasketNews reports Fenerbahce Istanbul is finalizing a deal for Chris Silva from AEK Athens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":476541,"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":[315,195,199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-basketball-champions-league","category-euroleague","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Chris-Silva.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476540","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=476540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476540"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476540"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476540"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}