{"id":500317,"date":"2026-06-09T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=500317"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:12:48","slug":"anadolu-efes-exercises-pablo-laso-option-luca-banchi-return-no-longer-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/anadolu-efes-exercises-pablo-laso-option-luca-banchi-return-no-longer-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Anadolu Efes Exercises Pablo Laso Option, Luca Banchi Return No Longer Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed that only the official announcement was missing for Luca Banchi&#8217;s return to the Anadolu Efes bench, but the plans of the Italian national team head coach have apparently changed.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-249328-unexpected-turnaround-changes-anadolu-efes-coaching-plans.html\"> BasketNews<\/a>, the Turkish club, recently eliminated from the BSL playoffs, decided to activate the 2026-27 option in Pablo Laso&#8217;s contract after learning about the latest developments regarding Banchi&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Efes has already started reshaping its roster for next season. The club officially announced today the departures of Saben Lee and Cole Swider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">2025-2026 sezonunda formam\u0131z\u0131 giyen Cole Swider\u2019a emekleri i\u00e7in te\u015fekk\u00fcr eder, kariyerinin bundan sonraki b\u00f6l\u00fcm\u00fcnde ba\u015far\u0131lar dileriz.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Cole! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oMAMlhtkvp\">pic.twitter.com\/oMAMlhtkvp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anadolu Efes SK (@AnadoluEfesSK) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnadoluEfesSK\/status\/2064361992161222818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efes announced the departures of Saben Lee and Cole Swider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":486591,"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":[31,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-500317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Shane-Larkin-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500317","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=500317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500317"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=500317"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=500317"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=500317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}