{"id":476761,"date":"2026-01-01T22:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476761"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:20:55","slug":"panathinaikos-to-keep-omer-yurtseven-and-kenneth-faried-through-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-to-keep-omer-yurtseven-and-kenneth-faried-through-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos to Keep Omer Yurtseven and Kenneth Faried Through End of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"588\"><strong data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"294\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Panathinaikos Aktor Athens<\/span><\/span><\/strong> have decided to retain <strong data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"359\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Omer Yurtseven<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"405\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Kenneth Faried<\/span><\/span><\/strong> through the end of the current season, head coach <strong data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"497\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ergin Ataman<\/span><\/span><\/strong> confirmed on the eve of the Greek Derby against <strong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"587\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Olympiacos Piraeus<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"590\" data-end=\"778\">Faried initially joined Panathinaikos on a two-month contract that included an option to extend his stay for the remainder of the season. The club has now officially exercised that option.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"1013\">Yurtseven\u2019s situation was slightly more complex, as both the player and the club held clauses allowing either side to part ways once 2026 began. However, after recent performances, both parties agreed to continue their collaboration.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1260\">\u201cYurtseven will continue with us,\u201d Ataman said. \u201cHe has been very good in the last two or three games \u2014 not only in Kaunas, but also against Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maroussi. In the Greek League, he is one of our best players. He will stay with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1393\">Ataman also addressed Faried\u2019s impact, acknowledging fluctuations in performance while emphasizing his importance within the group.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1395\" data-end=\"1639\">\u201cFaried won the EuroLeague MVP award in the first month,\u201d Ataman explained. \u201cAfter that, he played below his potential, but we like him as a person. He\u2019s always very positive and he likes the team. We will keep him until the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos Aktor Athens have decided to retain Omer Yurtseven and Kenneth Faried through the end of the current season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":453792,"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-476761","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\/08\/Kenneth-Faried-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476761","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476761"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476761"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476761"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}