{"id":491609,"date":"2026-04-06T23:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491609"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:17:40","slug":"gran-canaria-ends-jaka-lakovic-era-with-che-garcia-expected-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gran-canaria-ends-jaka-lakovic-era-with-che-garcia-expected-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran Canaria ends Jaka Lakovic era, with Che Garc\u00eda expected next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1691\" data-end=\"1992\"><strong data-start=\"1691\" data-end=\"1723\">Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria<\/strong> informed <strong data-start=\"1733\" data-end=\"1749\">Jaka Lakovic<\/strong> in the last few hours that the partnership between the two sides is over, following the 95-109 defeat against <strong data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1880\">San Pablo Burgos<\/strong>. The Canary Islands club has therefore chosen to make a coaching change at a very delicate stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2274\">Lakovic ends his spell after four seasons, having coached <strong data-start=\"2052\" data-end=\"2069\">129 ACB games<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2086\">62 wins<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2104\">67 losses<\/strong>. The Slovenian coach still leaves behind an important legacy, highlighted by one <strong data-start=\"2186\" data-end=\"2203\">EuroCup title<\/strong>, one final in the same competition and one <strong data-start=\"2247\" data-end=\"2263\">Copa del Rey<\/strong> semifinal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2560\">Even though Lakovic had said after the last game that he still felt \u201cstrong\u201d and \u201csupported,\u201d the club decided to move in a different direction with a <strong data-start=\"2427\" data-end=\"2435\">7-18<\/strong> record and nine rounds left to play. All signs now point to <strong data-start=\"2496\" data-end=\"2517\">N\u00e9stor Che Garc\u00eda<\/strong> as the main option to take over the bench.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2562\" data-end=\"2583\"><em data-start=\"2562\" data-end=\"2581\">Source: Canarias7<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CB Gran Canaria has decided to part ways with Jaka Lakovic after the heavy loss to San Pablo Burgos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":489467,"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-491609","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\/Jaka-Lakovic.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491609","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=491609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491609"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491609"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491609"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}