{"id":495946,"date":"2026-05-07T21:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495946"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:58:38","slug":"sylvain-francisco-reportedly-near-dubai-deal-with-nba-out-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sylvain-francisco-reportedly-near-dubai-deal-with-nba-out-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvain Francisco Reportedly Near Dubai Deal with NBA-Out Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jankunas-on-sylvain-francisco-the-first-call-came-in-mid-october\/\">previously reported<\/a>, Sylvain Francisco, the talented point guard currently playing for \u017dalgiris Kaunas, plans to pursue an NBA opportunity this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Should the attempt in the United States not work out, the 28-year-old French guard is expected to join the ambitious Dubai Basketball for next season.<\/p>\n<p>The news was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/sylvain-francisco-close-to-dubai\/\">Basketball Sphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco and Dubai are reportedly close to finalizing an agreement that would include an NBA-out clause in case the player receives an offer from the league.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, no further details of the deal have been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco plans to pursue an NBA opportunity this summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":483582,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-495946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/02\/Sylvain-Francisco-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495946","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495946"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495946"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495946"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}