{"id":502322,"date":"2026-06-23T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=502322"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:40:56","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-secure-commitment-from-jonas-valanciunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-secure-commitment-from-jonas-valanciunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas secure commitment from Jonas Valanciunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris Kaunas are reportedly on the verge of completing a major signing, with Jonas Valanciunas set to return to Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>According<a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-250406-jonas-valanciunas-zalgiris-nba-future-euroleague.html\"> to Donatas Urbonas<\/a>, the veteran center has accepted the club&#8217;s two-year offer, although he has not yet resolved his contractual situation with the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Valanciunas is currently under contract with Denver for $10 million, but the deal remains fully non-guaranteed until July 8, 2026. The contract will become guaranteed only if he remains on the roster beyond that date. It is unclear whether this is merely a formality, though <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-considers-plan-b-as-nuggets-nba-pressure-valanciunas\/\">last summer&#8217;s events<\/a> serve as a reminder that situations like this can still change.<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian big man appears ready to leave the NBA after 14 seasons, during which he posted career averages of 12.8 points (56% FG, 79% FT), 9.0 rebounds, and 0.9 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Valanciunas would likely complete Zalgiris&#8217; roster for next season, following the already-agreed arrivals of Carsen Edwards and Sterling Brown, which are still awaiting official confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lithuanian big man appears ready to leave the NBA after 14 seasons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":459103,"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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[407,175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-502322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Jonas-Valanciunas-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502322","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=502322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502322"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=502322"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=502322"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=502322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}