{"id":481031,"date":"2026-01-27T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481031"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:21:46","slug":"euroleague-ceo-race-paulius-motiejunas-future-set-to-be-decided-in-barcelona-on-jan-27-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-ceo-race-paulius-motiejunas-future-set-to-be-decided-in-barcelona-on-jan-27-28\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague CEO race: Paulius Motiej\u016bnas\u2019 future set to be decided in Barcelona on Jan. 27-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1702\"><strong data-start=\"1475\" data-end=\"1498\">Paulius Motiej\u016bnas\u2019<\/strong> position at the top of <strong data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1536\">EuroLeague<\/strong> could be clarified this week, as the ECA leadership is set to meet in <strong data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1663\">Barcelona on Tuesday, Jan. 27 and Wednesday, Jan. 28<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1704\" data-end=\"1968\">Reports indicate the replacement process is already deep into the final stage: after reviewing more than 30 candidates, the selection has reportedly been narrowed to <strong data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1883\">two names<\/strong> to be presented to clubs for a final decision.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"2220\">Among the names mentioned in the coverage is <strong data-start=\"2015\" data-end=\"2029\">Chus Bueno<\/strong>, while one key point raised is the desire for a CEO with no direct ties to any single club\u2014an issue linked to Motiej\u016bnas\u2019 past with <strong data-start=\"2162\" data-end=\"2181\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2222\" data-end=\"2312\">*Source: <em data-start=\"2231\" data-end=\"2259\">Krepsinis.net, Gazzetta.gr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek and Lithuanian reports say clubs are expected to pick his replacement during the ECA meeting, with the shortlist down to two finalists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440187,"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-481031","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\/05\/Paulius-Motiejunas.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481031","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=481031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481031"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481031"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481031"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}