{"id":498487,"date":"2026-05-26T16:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498487"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:17:20","slug":"mike-james-threatens-to-boycott-game-2-against-bourg-en-bresse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-threatens-to-boycott-game-2-against-bourg-en-bresse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James threatens to boycott Game 2 against Bourg-en-Bresse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1531\">More tension around <strong data-start=\"1343\" data-end=\"1356\">AS Monaco<\/strong>. According to <strong data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1383\">L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1385\" data-end=\"1399\">Mike James<\/strong> has planned not to travel with the team for Game 2 of the quarterfinal series against <strong data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1505\">Bourg-en-Bresse<\/strong>, scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1751\">The American guard, who had served his suspension and was expected to return, has reportedly decided not to play for financial reasons, following a similar situation involving <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1723\">\u00c9lie Okobo<\/strong> late in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1952\">According to the French newspaper, Monaco were still trying on Tuesday at midday to persuade James to change his stance and travel with the group to Bourg-en-Bresse for the second game of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to L\u2019\u00c9quipe, the AS Monaco star has decided not to travel with the team for financial reasons, while the club is still trying to convince him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":495041,"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":[37,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betclic-elite","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Follia-Mike-James.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498487","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=498487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498487"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498487"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498487"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}