{"id":505373,"date":"2026-07-11T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=505373"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:20:01","slug":"official-la-laguna-tenerife-signs-ethan-happ-on-a-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-la-laguna-tenerife-signs-ethan-happ-on-a-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: La Laguna Tenerife signs Ethan Happ on a two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">La Laguna Tenerife has officially signed <strong>Ethan Happ<\/strong> on a two-year contract, adding the experienced American center to its roster for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Happ (Illinois, May 7, 1996) arrives from Recoletas San Pablo Burgos, where he averaged <strong>12.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 2.2 assists<\/strong> in 25 Liga Endesa games last season. He finished third in the league in rebounds, led the competition with <strong>1.9 steals per game<\/strong>, and ranked sixth overall in efficiency rating with <strong>17.3 PIR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The 2.08-meter center enjoyed an outstanding college career at <strong>Wisconsin<\/strong> from 2015 to 2019, averaging <strong>15.4 points and 8.4 rebounds<\/strong>. He became one of the few players in NCAA Division I history to record at least <strong>2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 400 assists<\/strong>. In his senior year, he won both the <strong>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award<\/strong> as the nation&#8217;s top center and the <strong>Pete Newell Big Man Award<\/strong>, while also earning <strong>Second Team All-American<\/strong> honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">After moving to Europe, Happ played for <strong>Olympiacos<\/strong>, <strong>Vanoli Cremona<\/strong>, <strong>Fortitudo Bologna<\/strong>, <strong>Dinamo Sassari<\/strong>, and <strong>MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg<\/strong>, helping the German club win the bronze medal in the 2021-22 Basketball Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">A North Macedonia international, Happ made his Liga Endesa debut with <strong>R\u00edo Breog\u00e1n<\/strong> in 2022-23, finishing as the league&#8217;s leading rebounder and third in MVP voting. He later played for <strong>Dreamland Gran Canaria<\/strong>, <strong>Valencia Basket<\/strong>, and <strong>San Pablo Burgos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Across <strong>100 Liga Endesa appearances<\/strong>, Happ has averaged <strong>12.0 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.9 steals<\/strong>, with an average <strong>15.8 performance index rating<\/strong>, making him one of the most productive big men in the Spanish league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experienced American center strengthens the Canarian club after an outstanding Liga Endesa season with San Pablo Burgos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":505371,"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":[305,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-505373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-eurocup","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/HM8knV5WkAAgPL9.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505373","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505373"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=505373"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=505373"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=505373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}