{"id":487437,"date":"2026-03-10T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487437"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:19:48","slug":"baskonia-sign-jesse-edwards-to-bolster-the-frontcourt-for-the-rest-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/baskonia-sign-jesse-edwards-to-bolster-the-frontcourt-for-the-rest-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Baskonia sign Jesse Edwards to bolster the frontcourt for the rest of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1455\"><strong data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1243\">Kosner Baskonia<\/strong> have announced the signing of <strong data-start=\"1274\" data-end=\"1291\">Jesse Edwards<\/strong> through the end of the season. The <strong data-start=\"1327\" data-end=\"1336\">2.13m<\/strong> Dutch big man is set to arrive in <strong data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1390\">Vitoria-Gasteiz<\/strong> \u201cin the coming days\u201d to link up with <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1448\">Paolo Galbiati\u2019s<\/strong> squad.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1751\">Edwards (Amsterdam, 2000) comes from <strong data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1514\">Melbourne United<\/strong> in Australia\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1530\" data-end=\"1537\">NBL<\/strong>, where he averaged <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1572\">13.5 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1574\" data-end=\"1590\">8.5 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1607\">18.2 PIR<\/strong> across <strong data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1621\">32<\/strong> games this season. Last year he played for the <strong data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1684\">Iowa Wolves<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"1692\" data-end=\"1704\">G League<\/strong>, after developing at <strong data-start=\"1726\" data-end=\"1738\">Syracuse<\/strong> in the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1926\">With the move, Baskonia add size and physicality to their interior rotation for the final stretch of the campaign. \u201cOngi etorri, Jesse!\u201d, the club wrote in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1926\">The player&#8217;s agent, Wasserman&#8217;s Vice President of International Basketball Sead Galijasevic, also announced the transfer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-487445\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-10-alle-14.16.47-172x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2.13m Dutch center joins from Melbourne United and is expected in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the coming days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":487436,"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":[305],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/HDCoNm3WcAE-apO.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487437","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=487437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487437"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487437"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487437"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}