{"id":495760,"date":"2026-05-06T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495760"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:05:33","slug":"marcio-santos-leaves-maccabi-tel-aviv-to-join-lsu-in-ncaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/marcio-santos-leaves-maccabi-tel-aviv-to-join-lsu-in-ncaa\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e1rcio Santos leaves Maccabi Tel Aviv to join LSU in NCAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1350\"><strong data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1194\">M\u00e1rcio Santos<\/strong> will continue his career in the NCAA, as the South American player is leaving <strong data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1293\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong> and has officially committed to <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1333\">LSU<\/strong> for next season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1524\">The 23-year-old, 6-foot-9 forward stood out in EuroLeague with Maccabi, averaging 6.9 points in 14 minutes per game while shooting an impressive 40% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1737\">For coach <strong data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1549\">Will Wade<\/strong>, Santos represents a major addition in terms of talent and upside. LSU could also add <strong data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1652\">Saliou Niang<\/strong>, who has reportedly received a $7 million offer from the university for next season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEWS: Maccabi Tel Aviv&#8217;s M\u00e1rcio Santos has committed to LSU, Arturs Kalnitis and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ffgbasketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FFGBasketball<\/a> tell DraftExpress.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;9, 23-year-old Brazilian big averaged 6.9 points in 14 minutes in the Euroleague, shooting 40% from 3.<\/p>\n<p>Big addition for Will Wade and the Tigers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gf68ZNBuP0\">pic.twitter.com\/Gf68ZNBuP0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/2052012596836917461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South American talent moves from EuroLeague to college basketball, strengthening coach Will Wade\u2019s roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":495758,"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":[199,255,401],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-israel","category-ncaa","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/STP09644.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495760","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=495760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495760"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495760"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495760"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}