{"id":486382,"date":"2026-03-03T19:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486382"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:22:03","slug":"chimezie-metu-joins-dreamland-gran-canaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chimezie-metu-joins-dreamland-gran-canaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimezie Metu Joins Dreamland Gran Canaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chimezie Metu is a new player of Dreamland Gran Canaria, as officially announced by the Spanish club.<\/p>\n<p>The former USC Trojans power forward has signed a deal through the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Metu made his European debut last year with Barcelona, where he averaged 11.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>A serious Achilles tendon injury forced him to cut his stint with the Blaugrana short, but the forward has now fully recovered and is ready to help head coach Jaka Lakovi\u010d and his team in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udd10 El Dreamland Gran Canaria suma potencia y talento con Chimezie Metu.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa El ala-p\u00edvot americano refuerza el juego interior del equipo amarillo con su polivalencia.<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7CDwySXZyS\">https:\/\/t.co\/7CDwySXZyS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v9MGobgbws\">pic.twitter.com\/v9MGobgbws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dreamland Gran Canaria (@GranCanariaCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GranCanariaCB\/status\/2028887304593461575?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 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>Metu made his European debut last year with Barcelona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":486381,"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":[34,83],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-basketball-champions-league","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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