{"id":491596,"date":"2026-04-06T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491596"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:30:12","slug":"monaco-says-mike-james-is-nearing-team-return-ahead-of-key-euroleague-double-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/monaco-says-mike-james-is-nearing-team-return-ahead-of-key-euroleague-double-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco says Mike James is nearing team return ahead of key EuroLeague double week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"2094\"><strong data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1756\">AS Monaco Basket<\/strong> has announced an important step forward in <strong data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1815\">Mike James\u2019<\/strong> recovery, with the guard already back to individual on-court work.<br data-start=\"1882\" data-end=\"1885\" \/>If his progress stays on track, the Roca Team star is expected to return to full team practices, including contact, before this week\u2019s crucial <strong data-start=\"2028\" data-end=\"2042\">EuroLeague<\/strong> double round.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2096\" data-end=\"2434\">The Principality club said <strong data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2137\">Mike James<\/strong> has reached a major stage in his rehabilitation, with the recovery process going well after positive medical evaluations. Monaco added that James resumed individual on-court training last weekend, marking a significant development in his path back to action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2436\" data-end=\"2782\">According to the club statement, James could rejoin full team practices, including contact drills, before the decisive EuroLeague double week scheduled for this week. That is a major boost for the <strong data-start=\"2633\" data-end=\"2646\">Roca Team<\/strong> at a key point in the season, with important games set to shape its ambitions in the competition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2784\" data-end=\"3051\">James had been sidelined in mid-March with a <strong data-start=\"2829\" data-end=\"2849\">hamstring injury<\/strong>, and Monaco had then announced a recovery timeline of two to three weeks. The latest update suggests that timeline is holding as the team enters a pivotal stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019AS Monaco Basket ha annunciato progressi importanti nel recupero di Mike James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481003,"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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-491596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/Mike-James-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491596","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=491596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491596"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491596"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491596"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}