{"id":498492,"date":"2026-05-26T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498492"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:46:01","slug":"zalgiris-breakout-star-azuolas-tubelis-nearing-record-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-breakout-star-azuolas-tubelis-nearing-record-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris breakout star Azuolas Tubelis nearing record extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1692\"><strong data-start=\"1406\" data-end=\"1425\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> are close to securing <strong data-start=\"1448\" data-end=\"1467\">Azuolas Tubelis<\/strong> on a new contract through 2029. According to <strong data-start=\"1513\" data-end=\"1527\">BasketNews<\/strong>, the three-year agreement would prevent him from moving to another EuroLeague club at least until 2028, while still including NBA exit opportunities in the summers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1918\">Tubelis is coming off a strong debut EuroLeague season, averaging 12.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 12.7 PIR per game. Several EuroLeague powerhouses reportedly showed major interest and were prepared to pay a \u20ac1 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1920\" data-end=\"2198\">The new deal is expected to make Tubelis the highest-paid player in Zalgiris history. The Lithuanian club are also working on <strong data-start=\"2046\" data-end=\"2069\">Sylvain Francisco\u2019s<\/strong> extension, continue to pursue <strong data-start=\"2100\" data-end=\"2121\">Jonas Valanciunas<\/strong>, and are nearing agreements with <strong data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2174\">Marius Grigonis<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2179\" data-end=\"2197\">Marek Blazevic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2200\" data-end=\"2327\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to BasketNews, the Lithuanian forward is expected to stay in Kaunas through 2029 on a record-breaking deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498491,"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":[82,60],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lituania","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Azuolas-Tubelis-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498492","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=498492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498492"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498492"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498492"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}