{"id":489701,"date":"2026-03-25T12:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489701"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:16:26","slug":"unics-kazan-make-move-for-xavier-munford-to-strengthen-point-guard-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/unics-kazan-make-move-for-xavier-munford-to-strengthen-point-guard-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICS Kazan make move for Xavier Munford to strengthen point guard spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"2021\"><strong data-start=\"1710\" data-end=\"1725\">UNICS Kazan<\/strong> have targeted <strong data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1758\">Xavier Munford<\/strong> as they look to strengthen the point guard position following the departure of <strong data-start=\"1838\" data-end=\"1852\">C.J. Bryce<\/strong>, according to the sources you cited. Munford has recently left <strong data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"1934\">Hapoel Holon<\/strong> and is now drawing attention from several teams.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2374\">The American guard is a well-known and experienced profile in European basketball, with previous stops in Italy as well. This season he averaged <strong data-start=\"2170\" data-end=\"2185\">12.6 points<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"2193\" data-end=\"2210\">Winner League<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2215\" data-end=\"2230\">13.7 points<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"2238\" data-end=\"2269\">Basketball Champions League<\/strong> for Holon, numbers that help explain the current market interest. <em data-start=\"2336\" data-end=\"2374\">Source: sources provided by the user<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2376\" data-end=\"2584\">For Kazan, he would be an important addition at a time when the club is searching for new answers in the backcourt. It now remains to be seen whether UNICS\u2019 offer will be enough to win the race for Munford.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UNICS Kazan have made an offer to Xavier Munford, sources told me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/givati_tomer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@givati_tomer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Munford has just left Hapoel Holon and is drawing interest from multiple teams. The Kazan side is looking to strengthen the PG position following the departure of C.J. Bryce.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Artem Komarov (@art_basket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/art_basket\/status\/2036755578572206112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 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>The Russian club have made an offer to the American guard, who has just left Hapoel Holon and is attracting interest from multiple teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":424905,"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":[207],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vtb-league","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/01\/6GA1070.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489701","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=489701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489701"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489701"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489701"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}