{"id":506659,"date":"2026-07-20T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506659"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:03:35","slug":"thomas-walkup-and-olympiacos-at-odds-as-elpa-gets-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thomas-walkup-and-olympiacos-at-odds-as-elpa-gets-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Walkup and Olympiacos at odds as ELPA gets involved"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tensions between Thomas Walkup and Olympiacos continue to rise. According to SDNA<\/a>‘s Unknown Matters<\/em> show, the veteran guard and his representatives have contacted the EuroLeague Players Association (ELPA) to seek clarification regarding the buyout requested by the Greek club. Walkup, who still has one year remaining on his contract, has reportedly received a three-year, $9 million offer from Dubai Basketball.<\/p>\n

Olympiacos, however, is unwilling to release him without receiving substantial compensation, with reports suggesting a \u20ac3 million buyout request. Many around European basketball consider that figure excessive for a player earning approximately \u20ac1 million per season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The veteran guard is considering Dubai’s lucrative offer while the Greek club insists on a significant buyout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":312832,"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":[82,54],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-grecia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/COS_1831.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506659","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=506659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506659"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506659"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506659"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}