{"id":489415,"date":"2026-03-23T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489415"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:17:55","slug":"fenerbahce-close-to-extending-nicolo-mellis-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahce-close-to-extending-nicolo-mellis-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce close to extending Nicol\u00f2 Melli’s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fenerbahce is reportedly close to reaching an agreement to extend Nicol\u00f2 Melli\u2019s contract. The Italian big man is currently sidelined with an injury, but he has been a crucial piece in coach Sarunas Jasikevicius\u2019 system throughout the season.<\/p>\n

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After reports from Sportando and Eurodevotion, confirmation has also arrived from BasketNews<\/a>, with the two sides now reportedly very close to finalizing a deal that would keep Melli at Fenerbahce for the coming years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

So far in this EuroLeague season, Melli has averaged 6.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game, providing a strong impact, especially on the defensive end of the floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Italian forward remains a key piece for Jasikevicius despite injury setback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":480185,"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":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/BC6_6167.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489415","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489415"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489415"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489415"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}