{"id":495731,"date":"2026-05-06T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495731"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:17:08","slug":"mike-james-denies-barcelona-commitment-i-aint-committed-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-denies-barcelona-commitment-i-aint-committed-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James denies Barcelona commitment: \u201cI ain\u2019t committed nowhere\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1731\"><strong data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1548\">Mike James<\/strong> has closed his European chapter with <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1599\">AS Monaco<\/strong> after a 3-0 playoff sweep against Olympiacos, but he denied having already committed to <strong data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1701\">Barcelona<\/strong> or any other EuroLeague team.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1733\" data-end=\"1973\">Speaking to <strong data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1759\">BasketNews<\/strong>, James said: \u201cI ain\u2019t committed nowhere.\u201d He admitted that anything is possible as he enters free agency, but described the Barcelona and <strong data-start=\"1898\" data-end=\"1914\">Xavi Pascual<\/strong> rumors as an easy connection rather than a finalized deal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1975\" data-end=\"2335\">James also defended his Monaco legacy: five seasons, five playoff appearances, two Final Fours and one championship game. \u201cI don\u2019t know if anybody else could have come here and done what I did here,\u201d he said. On legacy, he added: \u201cI think legacy is stupid. I think people put too much stock in it.\u201d For his future, James said he mainly wants \u201ca chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his final EuroLeague game with Monaco, the American guard addressed his future, Barcelona rumors and his legacy in the Principality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":481003,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/Mike-James-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495731","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=495731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495731"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495731"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495731"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}