{"id":486650,"date":"2026-03-05T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486650"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:14:48","slug":"monaco-and-yoan-makoundou-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/monaco-and-yoan-makoundou-part-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco and Yoan Makoundou part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1812\">Yoan <strong data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1615\">Makoundou<\/strong> is no longer with <strong data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1647\">AS Monaco<\/strong>, as the club officially announced a separation after the player asked to leave.<br data-start=\"1727\" data-end=\"1730\" \/>It closes a relationship that began in 2022 but never truly took off on the court.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"2068\">Makoundou described his return last summer as abrupt, saying \u201c<strong data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1907\">I found out on social media<\/strong>\u201d and that he had no direct contact beforehand.<br data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"1957\" \/>Two major injuries \u2014 <strong data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"1990\">shoulder<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2002\">hip<\/strong> \u2014 followed, limiting him to just <strong data-start=\"2036\" data-end=\"2067\">five EuroLeague appearances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2328\">After playing only <strong data-start=\"2089\" data-end=\"2114\">seven minutes in 2026<\/strong> (at Chalon on February 8), Makoundou decided to stop.<br data-start=\"2168\" data-end=\"2171\" \/>\u201c<strong data-start=\"2172\" data-end=\"2224\">He wanted to leave the team, and it\u2019s definitive<\/strong>,\u201d coach <strong data-start=\"2233\" data-end=\"2255\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong> said on February 15, and Monaco have now made the mutual split official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Monaco confirm a mutual separation with the French big man, who wanted to leave the team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486649,"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":[237,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/HCp9wD6XIAAIw6S.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486650","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=486650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486650"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486650"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486650"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}