{"id":504204,"date":"2026-07-04T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=504204"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:14:17","slug":"ucla-reportedly-offers-serbian-prospect-nikola-kusturica-12m-nil-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ucla-reportedly-offers-serbian-prospect-nikola-kusturica-12m-nil-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA Reportedly Offers Serbian Prospect Nikola Kusturica $12M NIL Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

17-year-old Serbian prospect Nikola Kusturica could leave Barcelona to join a big college basketball program.<\/p>\n

According to Meridian Sport<\/a>, UCLA offered Kusturica a two-year NIL deal worth a reported $12 million.<\/p>\n

The Serbian talent\u00a0 is currently competing at the FIBA U17 World Cup, where he is averaging 22.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.4 steals, and 2.0 blocks per game. After a solid group stage, Kusturica starred in Serbia’s victories over New Zealand and Lithuania.<\/p>\n

He is set to take the court with Serbia in the U17 World Cup semifinal against host nation Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Serbian talent\u00a0 is currently competing at the FIBA U17 World Cup, where he is averaging 22.0 points, 6.8 rebounds, 2.4 steals, and 2.0 blocks per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":504203,"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":[305,401],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-504204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/Nikola-Kusturica-photo-fiba-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504204","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=504204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504204"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=504204"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=504204"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=504204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}