Saliou Niang, forward for Virtus Bologna, spoke to Il Resto del Carlino. Here are some of his comments.<\/p>\n
ON VIRTUS AND THE NBA<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018If I ever go there, I know I’ll have to improve and grow. Virtus offers me all that, including the Euroleague. And then we’re talking about a club with history, tradition and ambition.\u2019<\/p>\n ON THE 3-POINT SHOT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018I don’t even try to shoot from three? That’s true too. I lack confidence. It’s a mental thing.\u2019<\/p>\n ON HIS CONTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018It’s a two-year contract, but I have the option to leave after one season, only for the NBA. But I’m happy here. I’m thinking about the present, not the future.\u2019<\/p>\n ON THE ITALIAN CUP<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Paolo Ronci gave me his word: if we win the Italian Cup, he’ll wear a black and white jersey. And it won’t be Virtus’s…\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saliou Niang, forward for Virtus Bologna, spoke to Il Resto del Carlino. Here are some of his comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":479275,"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":[199,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/DSC00773.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481274","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=481274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481274"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481274"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481274"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}