{"id":509914,"date":"2026-08-14T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509914"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:43:38","slug":"trieste-demands-200k-buyout-for-markel-brown-as-napoli-offers-just-60-70k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/trieste-demands-200k-buyout-for-markel-brown-as-napoli-offers-just-60-70k\/","title":{"rendered":"Trieste demands $200K buyout for Markel Brown as Napoli offers just $60-70K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"540\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/markel-brown-wants-out-of-trieste-with-napoli-and-overseas-clubs-interested\/\"><strong data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"293\">Markel Brown&#8217;s<\/strong> future with <strong data-start=\"306\" data-end=\"331\">Pallacanestro Trieste<\/strong> appears increasingly uncertain<\/a>. According to <strong data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"393\">La Prealpina<\/strong>, the American guard has informed the club of his desire not to return for the 2026-27 season, despite being under contract on a <strong data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"539\">$280,000 deal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"797\">Among the teams showing interest is <strong data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"595\">Napoli Basket<\/strong>, but negotiations are currently stalled by a significant gap in the buyout valuation. Trieste is reportedly asking for around <strong data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"734\">$200,000<\/strong>, while Napoli is willing to offer only <strong data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"796\">$60,000 to $70,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"933\">Napoli is also prioritizing its budget for the signing of a starting foreign center, making an agreement even more difficult to reach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"1093\">As things stand, the most likely scenario is that <strong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1038\">Brown will not be playing for Trieste next season<\/strong>, although the two clubs still need to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1119\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1095\" data-end=\"1119\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Source: La Prealpina<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American guard reportedly wants to leave despite being under contract for the 2026-27 season, but the two clubs remain far apart in negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":476405,"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":[259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Markel-Brown-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509914","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=509914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509914"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509914"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509914"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}