{"id":493181,"date":"2026-04-17T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493181"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:29:32","slug":"olimpia-milano-dream-of-simone-fontecchio-deal-opens-only-if-nba-market-cools-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olimpia-milano-dream-of-simone-fontecchio-deal-opens-only-if-nba-market-cools-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia Milano dream of Simone Fontecchio: deal opens only if NBA market cools down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2403\" data-end=\"2842\"><strong data-start=\"2403\" data-end=\"2421\">Olimpia Milano<\/strong> are working on an ambitious market idea for next season: <strong data-start=\"2479\" data-end=\"2500\">Simone Fontecchio<\/strong>. According to <strong data-start=\"2515\" data-end=\"2542\">La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/strong>, the Italian forward is the club\u2019s biggest dream as it looks to raise the quality of the roster, but the move can only become realistic under one condition: that neither the <strong data-start=\"2717\" data-end=\"2725\">Heat<\/strong> nor other NBA teams make him an offer strong enough to keep him in the league.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2844\" data-end=\"3408\">Fontecchio has just finished the season with <strong data-start=\"2889\" data-end=\"2898\">Miami<\/strong> and will enter <strong data-start=\"2914\" data-end=\"2929\">free agency<\/strong> this summer. Reports say his priority is still to remain in the NBA, with at least other franchises showing interest and his recent salary level \u2014 around <strong data-start=\"3084\" data-end=\"3113\">$8 million gross per year<\/strong> \u2014 still setting the benchmark. That is the key point: Milano cannot compete with the top NBA range, but they could become a real option if the U.S. market softens or if Fontecchio starts considering a different kind of choice, more personal than technical.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3410\" data-end=\"3873\">At the same time, Milano are also evaluating other targets. <strong data-start=\"3470\" data-end=\"3489\">Darius Thompson<\/strong> remains appreciated for the point guard role, while <strong data-start=\"3542\" data-end=\"3563\">Alessandro Pajola<\/strong> is another name mentioned, although he is officially under contract with <strong data-start=\"3637\" data-end=\"3668\">Virtus Bologna through 2026<\/strong>. The true dream, however, remains Fontecchio: a difficult path for now, not yet really open, but one Milano want to be ready to pursue if the picture changes in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another EuroLeague disappointment, Milano are looking ahead and keeping the top Italian target in mind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":466529,"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":[199,399,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/G4OmbLtXEAAM3IF.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493181","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=493181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493181"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493181"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493181"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}