{"id":477756,"date":"2026-01-07T21:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477756"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:51:07","slug":"cedevita-olimpija-sign-matthew-hurt-through-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cedevita-olimpija-sign-matthew-hurt-through-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedevita Olimpija sign Matthew Hurt through the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cedevita Olimpija announced the signing of Matthew Hurt on a deal running through the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old power forward officially leaves Trapani Shark after 18 games, during which he averaged 8.8 points and 3.3 rebounds in LBA, along with 12.5 points on 63% shooting from the field and 4.5 rebounds per game in the Basketball Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Hurt had initially been expected to join Tofas Bursa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to become part of Cedevita Olimpija,\u201d Hurt said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard nothing but great things about the team and the city. I can\u2019t wait to contribute to such a strong team and I\u2019m looking forward to meeting the fans soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"sl\">Med Zmaje prihaja okrepitev na polo\u017eaju krilnega centra!<\/p>\n<p>Cedeviti Olimpiji se bo pridru\u017eil 25-letni, 206 cm visoki Matthew Hurt, ki je sezono za\u010del pri italijanskem Trapaniju, zdaj pa bo zaigral v Ljubljani.<\/p>\n<p>Matt, dobrodo\u0161el med Zmaji! \ud83d\udc9a\ud83e\udde1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ZmajevaDruzina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ZmajevaDruzina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XVGx6wvq0f\">pic.twitter.com\/XVGx6wvq0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (@KKCedOL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KKCedOL\/status\/2008886356467151352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurt will continue the season in Eurocup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":467628,"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":[191,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-eurocup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/Matthew-Hurt.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477756","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477756"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477756"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477756"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}