{"id":509622,"date":"2026-08-12T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509622"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:21:29","slug":"official-valencia-signs-finnish-forward-elias-valtonen-through-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-valencia-signs-finnish-forward-elias-valtonen-through-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Valencia signs Finnish forward Elias Valtonen through 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2240\"><strong data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2073\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> has officially signed <strong data-start=\"2096\" data-end=\"2114\">Elias Valtonen<\/strong> on a <strong data-start=\"2120\" data-end=\"2147\">non-guaranteed contract<\/strong> that could keep the Finnish forward with the club through the end of the <strong data-start=\"2221\" data-end=\"2239\">2026-27 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2242\" data-end=\"2465\">The 27-year-old arrives as a free agent after three seasons with <strong data-start=\"2307\" data-end=\"2326\">Covir\u00e1n Granada<\/strong>, where he averaged <strong data-start=\"2346\" data-end=\"2390\">9.8 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists<\/strong>, while shooting <strong data-start=\"2407\" data-end=\"2436\">37.1% from beyond the arc<\/strong> during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2467\" data-end=\"2781\">Valtonen brings extensive <strong data-start=\"2493\" data-end=\"2508\">Liga Endesa<\/strong> experience, having played <strong data-start=\"2535\" data-end=\"2548\">118 games<\/strong> across five seasons with <strong data-start=\"2574\" data-end=\"2590\">Baxi Manresa<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2595\" data-end=\"2614\">Covir\u00e1n Granada<\/strong>. After developing in Finland and spending two years at <strong data-start=\"2670\" data-end=\"2687\">Arizona State<\/strong>, he began his professional career with <strong data-start=\"2727\" data-end=\"2746\">Tigers T\u00fcbingen<\/strong> in Germany before moving to Spain.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2783\" data-end=\"3042\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A regular member of the <strong data-start=\"2807\" data-end=\"2832\">Finnish national team<\/strong>, Valtonen has represented his country at <strong data-start=\"2874\" data-end=\"2893\">EuroBasket 2022<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"2899\" data-end=\"2922\">2023 FIBA World Cup<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"2928\" data-end=\"2947\">EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, where he helped Finland reach the semifinals while averaging <strong data-start=\"3010\" data-end=\"3041\">7.7 points and 3.2 rebounds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Covir\u00e1n Granada forward joins Valencia on a non-guaranteed deal after five seasons and 118 Liga Endesa appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509621,"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":[134],"typology":[20,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/STJ00330.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509622","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509622"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509622"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509622"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}