{"id":510519,"date":"2026-08-18T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510519"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:44:12","slug":"yoan-makoundou-nearing-barcelona-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/yoan-makoundou-nearing-barcelona-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoan Makoundou nearing Barcelona move"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barcelona<\/strong> are finalizing an agreement to sign Yoan Makoundou<\/strong>, according to BasketNews<\/a> sources.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old French forward\/center stands 2.07 meters tall and had already been a Barcelona target last season, although the deal could not be completed at the time.<\/p>\n

This time, Makoundou is set to join Barcelona, with Gabriel Pantel-Jouve of BeBasket being the first to report the negotiations.<\/p>\n

A SEASON SPLIT BETWEEN CHINA AND MONACO<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Makoundou arrives after spending last season between China and AS Monaco.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

During his stint in China, Makoundou averaged 15.2 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.5 blocks and 0.6 steals<\/strong> per game, shooting 57% from two-point range<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He later returned to AS Monaco<\/strong>, where he averaged 10.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.1 blocks and 0.7 steals<\/strong> in 20 minutes per game in the French league.<\/p>\n

He was particularly efficient from the field, shooting 65% from two and 44% from three<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

FIVE EUROLEAGUE APPEARANCES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The French big man also made five EuroLeague appearances with Monaco.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Makoundou averaged 6.2 points and 1.8 rebounds<\/strong> in just eight minutes per game across his five EuroLeague appearances.<\/p>\n

His versatility and ability to contribute at both forward and center are among the qualities that have led Barcelona to return to a player they had already targeted last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Catalan powerhouse is finalizing an agreement with the versatile French big man, who was already on the club’s radar last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":510518,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/MAN_9343.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510519","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=510519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510519"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510519"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510519"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}