{"id":501880,"date":"2026-06-20T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=501880"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:17:06","slug":"marius-grigonis-returns-to-zalgiris-kaunas-after-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/marius-grigonis-returns-to-zalgiris-kaunas-after-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Marius Grigonis returns to Zalgiris Kaunas after five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five seasons away, <strong>Marius Grigonis<\/strong> is back with <strong>Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong>. The 32-year-old, 198 cm guard returns to Lithuania following four seasons with Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<p>With the Greek powerhouse, Grigonis won the <strong>2023-2024 EuroLeague<\/strong>, one Greek League title and two Greek Cups. His best EuroLeague campaign with Panathinaikos came during the championship season, when he averaged 9.1 points and 8.7 PIR over 41 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is home, I know everything here. We have a long history with Zalgiris,\u201d Grigonis said in his first interview after the move. Club president <strong>Paulius Jankunas<\/strong> praised his mentality: \u201cMarius is ambitious and hungry for basketball. First of all, he wants to prove to himself that he can still play at that level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas has officially announced the return of Marius Grigonis, with the EuroLeague champion signing a one-year deal through the end of the 2026-2027 season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":501879,"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":[199,271],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-501880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-lithuania","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/HLQSfd8WYAEdSXJ.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880","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=501880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=501880"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=501880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}