{"id":507733,"date":"2026-07-28T21:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=507733"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:54:38","slug":"riga-adds-tony-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/riga-adds-tony-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Riga Adds Tony Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riga has strengthened its backcourt with the signing of Tony Perkins, who has agreed to a one-year contract with the Latvian club.<\/p>\n<p>The American guard spent his first professional season between the Czech league, a brief stint with Treviso, and the final part of the year in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for Kedainiai Nevezis in the LKL, Perkins averaged 17 points, 2.5 assists, and 1.1 steals per game, establishing himself as one of the team&#8217;s key offensive contributors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"lv\">\u201cR\u012bgas Ze\u013c\u013ci\u201d turpina komplekt\u0113t sast\u0101vu debijas sezonai Eirokaus\u0101, nosl\u0113dzot viena gada l\u012bgumu ar 24 gadus veco amerik\u0101\u0146u aizsargu Toniju P\u0113rkinsu.<\/p>\n<p>P\u0113rkinss aizvad\u012btaj\u0101 sezon\u0101 bija viens no Lietuvas basketbola l\u012bgas (LKL) rezultat\u012bv\u0101kajiem sp\u0113l\u0113t\u0101jiem.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/eurocup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eurocup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/rigaszelli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rigaszelli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6KfHKywSHo\">pic.twitter.com\/6KfHKywSHo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R\u012bgas Ze\u013c\u013ci (@RigasZelli) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RigasZelli\/status\/2081781515990536637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 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 guard signed a one-year deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":507732,"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":[197,269],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-507733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-latvia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/HOP5QKqWQAAjQdd.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507733","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=507733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507733"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=507733"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=507733"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=507733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}