{"id":505997,"date":"2026-07-15T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=505997"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:16:03","slug":"nico-laprovittola-returns-to-joventut-badalona-on-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nico-laprovittola-returns-to-joventut-badalona-on-three-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Laprovittola Returns to Joventut Badalona on Three-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Laprovittola is returning to Joventut Badalona after agreeing to a three-year contract with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine point guard previously wore the Joventut jersey from 2017 to 2019, earning ACB MVP honors during his second season.<\/p>\n<p>Following that spell, Laprovittola spent two years with Real Madrid before joining Barcelona in the 2021-22 season. With the Blaugrana, he averaged 9.7 points and 3.7 assists per game across the ACB and EuroLeague in the latest campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Laprovittola is set for a highly anticipated return to Badalona, described by the club as a &#8220;historic&#8221; move and &#8220;one of the best pieces of news in the recent history of Joventut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He will form a high-level backcourt partnership with another elite point guard, Ricky Rubio, giving Joventut one of the most experienced guard duos in European basketball.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">\ud83d\udca3 Un retorn hist\u00f2ric: el geni de Mor\u00f3n es retroba amb l\u2019ASISA Joventut!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd1d Nico Laprovittola signa per tres temporades, un refor\u00e7 de luxe per a la Penya<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd El comunicat: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYUHho5vet\">https:\/\/t.co\/RYUHho5vet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udda4 Ben tornat a casa, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicolapro7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nicolapro7<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CityOfBadalona?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CityOfBadalona<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ASISAJoventut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ASISAJoventut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/JoHiSer%C3%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JoHiSer\u00e9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/alwvcBp1Fc\">pic.twitter.com\/alwvcBp1Fc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Club Joventut Badalona (@Penya1930) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Penya1930\/status\/2077457451633262999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 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>Laprovittola will form a high-level backcourt partnership with another elite point guard, Ricky Rubio, giving Joventut one of the most experienced guard duos in European basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":505996,"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":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-505997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-eurocup","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/HNSciHeXcAA1kWa.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505997","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=505997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505997"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=505997"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=505997"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=505997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}