{"id":506930,"date":"2026-07-22T17:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506930"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:38:32","slug":"besiktas-matt-thomas-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/besiktas-matt-thomas-part-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Besiktas, Matt Thomas Part Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besiktas has officially announced the departure of Matt Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>The sharpshooting guard joined the Turkish club midway through last season after a strong start in Spain with Granada, where he averaged 14.6 points per game while shooting 46% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>With Besiktas, Thomas averaged 7.1 points in 14 minutes per game in the Turkish Basketball Super League, shooting an impressive 48% from beyond the arc. In the EuroCup, he recorded 4.8 points in 12 minutes per game, with a three-point percentage of 32%.<\/p>\n<p>The former NBA player now becomes a free agent after a short stint in Turkey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Te\u015fekk\u00fcrler Matt Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Erkek Basketbol Tak\u0131m\u0131m\u0131z\u0131n sporcusu Matt Thomas ile kar\u015f\u0131l\u0131kl\u0131 anla\u015farak yollar\u0131m\u0131z\u0131 ay\u0131rm\u0131\u015f bulunmaktay\u0131z.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Thomas\u2019a emekleri i\u00e7in te\u015fekk\u00fcr eder, bundan sonraki kariyerinde ba\u015far\u0131lar dileriz. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6AFcdj4KLr\">pic.twitter.com\/6AFcdj4KLr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Be\u015fikta\u015f Basketbol (@BJK_Basketbol) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BJK_Basketbol\/status\/2079941527514574951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 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>The former NBA player now becomes a free agent after a short stint in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":506929,"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":[315,197],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","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\/HN1vydaWAAApFcR.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506930","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=506930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506930"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506930"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506930"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}