{"id":477886,"date":"2026-01-08T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477886"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:08:15","slug":"olimpia-milan-vs-efes-returns-and-a-key-doubt-for-poeta-ahead-of-the-90th-anniversary-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olimpia-milan-vs-efes-returns-and-a-key-doubt-for-poeta-ahead-of-the-90th-anniversary-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia Milan vs Efes: returns and a key doubt for Poeta ahead of the 90th anniversary game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"2207\">Olimpia Milan will celebrate their <strong data-start=\"1956\" data-end=\"1976\">90th anniversary<\/strong> on the court at Allianz Cloud, hosting Anadolu Efes in EuroLeague action (8:30 pm). The game is framed as a must-win to build on the Athens upset and stay in the postseason race, against an Efes side in crisis but still dangerous.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2209\" data-end=\"2498\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"2220\" data-end=\"2235\">Peppe Poeta<\/strong> has one main doubt in the build-up: <strong data-start=\"2272\" data-end=\"2287\">Quinn Ellis<\/strong>, who missed the Panathinaikos game due to fatigue, must be assessed. On the positive side, <strong data-start=\"2379\" data-end=\"2397\">Shavon Shields<\/strong> returns for Thursday, and <strong data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2443\">Leandro Bolmaro<\/strong> is also set to be available after roughly a month out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2500\" data-end=\"2867\">However, <strong data-start=\"2509\" data-end=\"2526\">Stefano Tonut<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2528\" data-end=\"2544\">Ousmane Diop<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2549\" data-end=\"2565\">Nate Sestina<\/strong> remain sidelined with longer recovery timelines. Efes coach <strong data-start=\"2626\" data-end=\"2640\">Pablo Laso<\/strong> travels to Milan without several key players as well: <strong data-start=\"2695\" data-end=\"2714\">Vincent Poirier<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2719\" data-end=\"2743\">Georgios Papagiannis<\/strong> (knee), <strong data-start=\"2752\" data-end=\"2768\">Shane Larkin<\/strong> (groin) and <strong data-start=\"2781\" data-end=\"2803\">Burak Can Y\u0131ld\u0131zl\u0131<\/strong> (wrist), with Efes sitting bottom of the standings on six wins.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1492\"><a href=\"https:\/\/realolimpiamilano.com\/2026\/01\/08\/olimpia-milano-efes-9-gennaio-2026-ultime-notizie\/\"><em data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1443\">Fonte: REALOLIMPIAMILANO<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shavon Shields and Leandro Bolmaro are back, while Quinn Ellis remains a question mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465962,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/P5A2190.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477886","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=477886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477886"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477886"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477886"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}