{"id":493189,"date":"2026-04-17T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493189"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:41:50","slug":"zalgiris-close-to-bringing-back-marek-blazevic-major-center-move-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-close-to-bringing-back-marek-blazevic-major-center-move-for-2026-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris close to bringing back Marek Blazevic: major center move for 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2359\"><strong data-start=\"1997\" data-end=\"2016\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> are reportedly close to signing <strong data-start=\"2049\" data-end=\"2067\">Marek Blazevic<\/strong>, the 24-year-old Lithuanian center currently playing for <strong data-start=\"2125\" data-end=\"2140\">Tofas Bursa<\/strong>. The report comes from <strong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2178\">BasketNews<\/strong>, which notes that the story was first reported by <strong data-start=\"2229\" data-end=\"2262\">Jonas Leksas of Krepsinis.net<\/strong>, as Zalgiris continues shaping its roster for next season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2361\" data-end=\"2714\">Blazevic has stood out this season both in the <strong data-start=\"2408\" data-end=\"2439\">Basketball Champions League<\/strong> and in the Turkish domestic league. In the BCL he is averaging <strong data-start=\"2503\" data-end=\"2535\">15.6 points and 6.6 rebounds<\/strong>, leading Tofas in points, rebounds and efficiency, while his Turkish league numbers are also close to <strong data-start=\"2638\" data-end=\"2666\">15 points and 7 rebounds<\/strong> per game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2716\" data-end=\"3072\">What makes the possible move even more intriguing is his production against EuroLeague-level teams. According to BasketNews, he posted <strong data-start=\"2851\" data-end=\"2888\">21-point games against Fenerbahce<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2893\" data-end=\"2909\">Anadolu Efes<\/strong> this season. For Zalgiris, that would mean adding a player with proven form, upside, and previous familiarity with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BasketNews, the Lithuanian club is set to re-sign one of the most productive big men of the season across the BCL and the Turkish league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493188,"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":[315,199,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","category-lithuania"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Marek-Blazevic.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493189","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=493189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493189"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493189"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493189"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}