{"id":506961,"date":"2026-07-22T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506961"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:18:54","slug":"hezonja-exit-hits-complication-as-real-madrid-holds-strong-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hezonja-exit-hits-complication-as-real-madrid-holds-strong-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezonja Exit Hits Complication as Real Madrid Holds Strong Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Mario Hezonja&#8217;s<\/strong> future remains one of the biggest storylines of the European basketball offseason. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/baloncesto\/acb\/2026\/07\/22\/salida-hezonja-real-madrid-apunta-culebron.html\"><strong>Marca<\/strong><\/a>, the Croatian forward&#8217;s departure from <strong>Real Madrid<\/strong> may not be as straightforward as initially expected. Although Hezonja informed the club before the contractual deadline of his intention to activate his NBA exit clause, he has reportedly neither presented an official NBA offer nor paid the required <strong>$1 million buyout<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marca<\/strong> reports that ACB regulations require the notification and payment of the buyout to be completed simultaneously. To resolve the situation, Hezonja&#8217;s representatives have reportedly offered to increase the amount paid to secure his release. As a result, Real Madrid is now believed to be in a strong negotiating position and could either demand higher compensation or even retain the player. Despite that, the club has already signed <strong>Mikael Jantunen<\/strong> as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NBA interest remains alive, although <strong>Marc Stein<\/strong> has reported that the offers received so far have been non-guaranteed deals. Should an NBA move fail, EuroLeague clubs such as <strong>Dubai Basketball<\/strong> and <strong>Olympiacos<\/strong> are expected to monitor the situation closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Marca, the Spanish club could block the Croatian forward&#8217;s NBA move after the buyout clause was reportedly not completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":492250,"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":[34,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Mario-Hezonja-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506961","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=506961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506961"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506961"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506961"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}