{"id":488779,"date":"2026-03-19T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488779"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:47:08","slug":"monaco-shorthanded-against-efes-okobo-returns-mike-james-and-mirotic-still-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/monaco-shorthanded-against-efes-okobo-returns-mike-james-and-mirotic-still-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco shorthanded against Efes: Okobo returns, Mike James and Mirotic still out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1608\"><strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1397\">AS Monaco<\/strong> will face <strong data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1424\">Anadolu Efes<\/strong> in Istanbul on Thursday in a key EuroLeague game, but they will do so with a very limited roster. The French side will have only nine professional players available for the road trip.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1825\">The positive news is the return of <strong data-start=\"1645\" data-end=\"1659\">Elie Okobo<\/strong>, who is back after his ankle injury. <strong data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1716\">Matthew Strazel<\/strong> will also be available, while <strong data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"1763\">Daniel Theis<\/strong>, who returned last week against Olympiacos, is ready as well.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"2061\">However, <strong data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"1850\">Mike James<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1855\" data-end=\"1873\">Nikola Mirotic<\/strong> are still sidelined and are not expected back before the end of March. Monaco will therefore need to rely on intensity, energy and collective effort to try to get a result on Efes\u2019 floor.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1034\" data-end=\"1051\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bebasket.fr\/monaco-a-neuf-chez-lanadolu-efes-elie-okobo-de-retour-toujours-sans-mike-james-ni-nikola-mirotic\"><em data-start=\"1034\" data-end=\"1051\">Fonte: BeBasket<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Monaco will travel to Istanbul with only nine professional players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":488778,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Nikola-Mirotic-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488779","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=488779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488779"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488779"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488779"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}