{"id":501962,"date":"2026-06-21T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=501962"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:27:51","slug":"luka-doncic-expected-in-rome-on-june-25-for-nba-europe-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-expected-in-rome-on-june-25-for-nba-europe-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic expected in Rome on June 25 for NBA Europe project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Luka Doncic<\/strong> is expected in Rome on June 25. According to <em>Repubblica Roma<\/em>, the <strong>Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> star will meet mayor Roberto Gualtieri, attend a press conference at City Hall and take part in Nike events.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is seen as a strong statement by the <strong>NBA Europe<\/strong> project linked to the Donnie Nelson-Doncic group, which acquired the rights of Vanoli Cremona and aims to bring a team to the Italian capital. The team has been included in next season\u2019s EuroCup, but key questions remain, especially about the arena: PalaTiziano does not appear to meet European requirements, while PalaEur is already connected to the rival group.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side stands <strong>Paul Matiasic<\/strong>, who reportedly has a pre-agreement with Ettore Messina as coach, Zoran Savic as general manager and PalaEur as home arena. The sporting title is still missing, with Trieste again emerging as a possible option. Rome remains a two-front battle for the future of European basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic will be in Rome on June 25 for a series of meetings connected to the NBA Europe project, while the race between the Nelson-Doncic and Matiasic groups remains open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498568,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-501962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Roma-Doncic.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501962","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=501962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501962"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=501962"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=501962"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=501962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}