{"id":486232,"date":"2026-03-02T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486232"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:00:05","slug":"dubai-basketball-extends-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dubai-basketball-extends-klemen-prepelic-davis-bertans-and-nemanja-dangubic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Basketball extends Klemen Prepeli\u010d, Davis Bertans and Nemanja Dangubi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1631\" data-end=\"1935\">Dubai Basketball has confirmed contract extensions for three cornerstone players from its inaugural roster: <strong data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1758\">Klemen Prepeli\u010d<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1760\" data-end=\"1777\">Davis Bertans<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1802\">Nemanja Dangubi\u0107<\/strong>. All three joined ahead of the club\u2019s debut 2024\/25 campaign and will stay on as Dubai keeps competing across European competitions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1937\" data-end=\"2278\">Team captain <strong data-start=\"1950\" data-end=\"1962\">Prepeli\u010d<\/strong> has been a defining figure since day one, totaling <strong data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2032\">73 appearances<\/strong> since his debut and providing leadership through the franchise\u2019s rapid rise. <strong data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2121\">Bertans<\/strong>, who arrived after his NBA stint with the <strong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2185\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong>, has made <strong data-start=\"2196\" data-end=\"2214\">56 appearances<\/strong> and was named vice-captain for his on- and off-court influence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2280\" data-end=\"2637\">The trio is completed by Serbian forward <strong data-start=\"2321\" data-end=\"2333\">Dangubi\u0107<\/strong>, a EuroLeague veteran with more than a decade at the top level, who has played <strong data-start=\"2413\" data-end=\"2425\">60 games<\/strong> in Dubai colours. The club framed the extensions as a signal of continuity for the \u201cfounding era\u201d, highlighting milestones such as an <strong data-start=\"2560\" data-end=\"2584\">ABA League semifinal<\/strong> run and the first steps on the <strong data-start=\"2616\" data-end=\"2630\">EuroLeague<\/strong> stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captain, the \u201cLatvian Laser\u201d and the EuroLeague veteran remain key pieces as the club continues its European journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486231,"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":[191,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-02-alle-18.57.39.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486232","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=486232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486232"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486232"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486232"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}