{"id":510468,"date":"2026-08-17T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510468"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:36:31","slug":"matt-morgan-spanoulis-tried-to-get-me-a-few-years-ago-at-another-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/matt-morgan-spanoulis-tried-to-get-me-a-few-years-ago-at-another-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Morgan: \u201cSpanoulis tried to get me a few years ago at another team&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Morgan has arrived in Thessaloniki to begin preseason with Aris. In his first comments, the new signing spoke about the welcome from the fans, the team&#8217;s ambitions and his relationship with Vassilis Spanoulis, who had previously tried to sign him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first impressions are about the team&#8217;s fans; they are incredible. They have already sent me a lot of photos. The city is amazing. Obviously, our team has big goals and ambitions. I\u2019m happy to be here and I can\u2019t wait to get started,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p>On his relationship with Spanoulis: \u201cI spoke with coach Spanoulis before I decided to come here. We have a good relationship, he tried to get me a few years ago at another team. I think the timing is right for both of us to work together. I can\u2019t wait to learn a lot from him and win for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Farisbc.gr%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02LTjyyPTmqWqiDuBR1UDEYSCJ9ETQoVmmYdidFZNb1nbUbuwK5Cb23hfpHMPDuDpwl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"612\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Aris signing has reached Thessaloniki and discussed his relationship with Vassilis Spanoulis and the team&#8217;s goals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":510470,"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":[197,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/778565366_1086800673866996_5168074162757045432_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510468","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510468"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510468"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510468"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}