{"id":502011,"date":"2026-06-21T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=502011"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:35:53","slug":"matthew-strazel-reportedly-joining-anadolu-efes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/matthew-strazel-reportedly-joining-anadolu-efes\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Strazel chooses Efes on \u20ac4.5 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Matthew Strazel<\/strong> is set to continue his career in Turkey, choosing <strong>Anadolu Efes<\/strong> and ending one of Olimpia Milano\u2019s summer market tracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Matthew Strazel<\/strong> is heading to Anadolu Efes. According to <strong>RealOlimpiaMilano<\/strong>, the French guard has agreed to a <strong>\u20ac4.5 million deal<\/strong> with the Turkish club, while recent rumors about an agreement with Valencia are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Strazel had drawn interest from <strong>Olimpia Milano<\/strong>, Valencia and, in recent weeks, Zalgiris Kaunas. Efes has also reached an agreement with Monaco, where the player was under contract until 2028: the Turkish side will pay a <strong>\u20ac500,000 buyout<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco\u2019s financial issues reportedly played a decisive role in the deal, with the club potentially facing EuroLeague exclusion in the coming days. Strazel finished the last EuroLeague season averaging <strong>9.2 points<\/strong> and <strong>3.9 assists<\/strong> per game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Matthew Strazel has reached an agreement with Anadolu Efes.<\/p>\n<p>The French point guard will leave Monaco to sign a three-year, \u20ac4.5 million contract in Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>Efes will pay a 500k buyout to release the player from Monaco, with whom he has a contract through 2028. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nBATfpNwr5\">https:\/\/t.co\/nBATfpNwr5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZTbnfPi8S2\">pic.twitter.com\/ZTbnfPi8S2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alessandro Luigi Maggi (@AlessandroMagg4) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlessandroMagg4\/status\/2068727715243426059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 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>Matthew Strazel is set to continue his career in Turkey, choosing Anadolu Efes and ending one of Olimpia Milano\u2019s summer market tracks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":442912,"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":[315,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-502011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/P5A8426.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502011","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=502011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502018,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502011\/revisions\/502018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502011"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=502011"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=502011"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=502011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}