{"id":509632,"date":"2026-08-12T21:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509632"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:36:31","slug":"official-karsiyaka-signs-rashard-kelly-for-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/official-karsiyaka-signs-rashard-kelly-for-the-2026-27-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Kar\u015f\u0131yaka signs Rashard Kelly for the 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1466\"><strong data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1328\">Kar\u015f\u0131yaka<\/strong> has officially signed <strong data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1368\">Rashard Kelly<\/strong> for the <strong data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1395\">2026-27 season<\/strong>, adding an experienced forward with an extensive international r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">Visualizza questo post su Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Db5_MuNsDd5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Un post condiviso da Kars\u0327\u0131yaka (@kskbasket)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1703\">Kelly began his career at <strong data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1511\">Wichita State<\/strong> before playing professionally for <strong data-start=\"1546\" data-end=\"1555\">Parma<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1570\">JDA Dijon<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1572\" data-end=\"1585\">Gaziantep<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1605\">Wolves Vilnius<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1607\" data-end=\"1622\">BC Prometey<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1628\" data-end=\"1648\">ADA Blois Basket<\/strong>, establishing himself across several European leagues.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1705\" data-end=\"1878\">The American forward spent the <strong data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1754\">2025-26 season<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1780\">Aomori Watts<\/strong> in Japan and now returns to Europe to continue his career in the Turkish Basketball Super League.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"2026\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Kar\u015f\u0131yaka adds a versatile frontcourt player with experience, defensive versatility, and a proven ability to contribute on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experienced American forward joins the Turkish club after finishing last season with Japan&#8217;s Aomori Watts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":509631,"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":[31],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[20,15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","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\/Rashard-Kelly-FIBA.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509632","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=509632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509632"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509632"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509632"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}