{"id":492644,"date":"2026-04-13T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492644"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:48:37","slug":"dubai-basketball-reportedly-close-to-aleksander-sekulic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dubai-basketball-reportedly-close-to-aleksander-sekulic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Basketball reportedly close to Aleksander Sekulic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1572\" data-end=\"1826\"><strong data-start=\"1572\" data-end=\"1594\">Aleksander Sekulic<\/strong> is close to becoming the new head coach of <strong data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1658\">Dubai Basketball<\/strong>. According to BasketNews, the club is finalizing an agreement with the <strong data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1742\">Slovenia<\/strong> national team coach, who has worked closely with <strong data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"1807\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> for several years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1828\" data-end=\"2084\">The reported agreement would run through the end of the 2025-26 season, while allowing Dubai to keep its options open for a longer-term decision in the summer. Sekulic would step in as the successor to <strong data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2048\">Jurica Golemac<\/strong> during a key stretch of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2086\" data-end=\"2415\">Dubai is still fighting for a place in the <strong data-start=\"2129\" data-end=\"2143\">EuroLeague<\/strong> play-in. To get there, the club would need a win over <strong data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2217\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> in the final round and also a <strong data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2261\">Barcelona<\/strong> loss to <strong data-start=\"2270\" data-end=\"2287\">Bayern Munich<\/strong>. For Sekulic, it would mark a return to club basketball after previous VTB League experiences with <strong data-start=\"2387\" data-end=\"2396\">Zenit<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2401\" data-end=\"2414\">Lokomotiv<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenia head coach is reportedly close to joining Dubai for the remainder of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":478755,"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":[191,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","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\/Aleksandar-Sekulic.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492644","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=492644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492644"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492644"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492644"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}