{"id":492681,"date":"2026-04-13T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492681"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:13:44","slug":"hapoel-tel-aviv-reportedly-in-talks-with-chris-jones-over-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-tel-aviv-reportedly-in-talks-with-chris-jones-over-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel Tel Aviv reportedly in talks with Chris Jones over new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1681\"><strong data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1435\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> is reportedly in talks with <strong data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1479\">Chris Jones<\/strong> over a new contract. According to <em data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1528\">Israel Hayom<\/em>, the Israeli club has already started discussions with the player in order to extend his current deal and keep him with the team for the coming seasons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1683\" data-end=\"1913\">The club\u2019s plan is to remain competitive in the <strong data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1745\">EuroLeague<\/strong> over the next few years, with Jones seen as one of the core pieces of the roster. The American guard is considered an important pillar of the team\u2019s long-term project.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"2175\">This season in the <strong data-start=\"1934\" data-end=\"1948\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, Jones has averaged <strong data-start=\"1969\" data-end=\"2022\">9.5 points, 1.9 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 0.9 steals<\/strong> and an <strong data-start=\"2030\" data-end=\"2042\">11.1 PIR<\/strong> in 37 games, while playing just under 20 minutes per contest. Those numbers help explain why Hapoel wants to keep him in the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli club has reportedly already opened discussions with the American guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":490555,"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":[199,255],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Chris-Jones-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492681","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=492681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492681"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492681"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492681"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}