{"id":486455,"date":"2026-03-04T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486455"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:59:41","slug":"fenerbahces-sarunas-jasikevicius-back-in-istanbul-after-being-stranded-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahces-sarunas-jasikevicius-back-in-istanbul-after-being-stranded-in-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce&#8217;s Sarunas Jasikevicius back in Istanbul after being stranded in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1545\"><strong data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1356\">Sarunas Jasikevicius<\/strong>, head coach of <strong data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1386\">Fenerbahce<\/strong>, has returned to <strong data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1416\">Istanbul<\/strong> a few days after being stranded in the <strong data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1480\">United Arab Emirates<\/strong>. The update comes from a video that surfaced from the airport.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1770\">Alongside the coach, <strong data-start=\"1568\" data-end=\"1578\">Bejkot<\/strong> (player), <strong data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1598\">Botha<\/strong> (physiotherapist) and <strong data-start=\"1621\" data-end=\"1630\">Sulak<\/strong> (sporting director) are also reported to have returned. They had been stuck in the UAE following wartime developments in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"1922\">The Lithuanian coach arrived in Istanbul on the night of <strong data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1845\">Tuesday, 3\/3<\/strong>. The circulating footage is presented as confirmation of the group\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">\u00d6ZEL G\u00d6R\u00dcNT\u00dc | Dubai\u2019de mahsur kalan Fenerbah\u00e7e Beko ko\u00e7u Sarunas Jasikevicius, \u0130stanbul\u2019a d\u00f6nd\u00fc.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keremkolukisa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@keremkolukisa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8bJewiLHQC\">pic.twitter.com\/8bJewiLHQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sports Digitale (@SportsDigitale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsDigitale\/status\/2028943910958186799?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>Airport footage shows the Lithuanian coach returning on Tuesday night, March 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486456,"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":[315,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/jasikevicius-1200x800-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486455","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=486455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486455"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486455"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486455"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}