{"id":510601,"date":"2026-08-18T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=510601"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:21:13","slug":"olympiacos-thomas-walkup-its-over-point-guard-pushes-for-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-thomas-walkup-its-over-point-guard-pushes-for-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos-Thomas Walkup, It\u2019s Over: Point Guard Pushes for Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Walkup&#8217;s time with Olympiacos appears to be coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek club has announced that the point guard formally notified them of his decision to unilaterally terminate his contract, requesting his immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Reds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdna.gr\/mpasket\/1458861_polemos-oyokap-olympiakoy-katiggeile-ti-monomeri-ananeosi-toy-symbolaioy-o-texanos\">have no intention of<\/a> letting him leave before the expiration of his contract, which is set for June 2027.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe expect Walkup on August 20 for his medical examinations. Otherwise, the club reserves the right to take legal action to defend its rights.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 33-year-old point guard has spent five highly successful seasons with the Reds, but he now <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/olympiacos-walkup-e-rottura-nessun-contatto-dopo-lofferta-di-dubai\/\">appears determined<\/a> to join Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Walkup and Olympiacos Heading for a Bitter Split<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":276217,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-510601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/05\/006_2K_7566.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510601","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510601"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=510601"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=510601"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=510601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}