Simone Fontecchio, who is currently in Trento with Italbasket awaiting their away game in Tuzla, spoke with Beppe Nigro of *La Gazzetta dello Sport*.<\/p>\n
On His NBA Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMy intention was to stay in the NBA, preferably in Miami. The team\u2019s decisions were clear as they made a major move to sign a Hall of Famer like Antetokounmpo. It\u2019s an opportunity for the organization, the city, and the team to achieve something even greater. For me, it\u2019s a chance to play for a team that truly has championship aspirations. For my part, I\u2019m really excited and curious to get to know him and see what it\u2019s like to play with him. The fact that they wanted me so badly even before free agency reassured me and made me want to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n On the Europe option<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t even consider the idea of returning to Europe this summer. So I don\u2019t even know\u2014we didn\u2019t go looking for any offers. When this opportunity in Miami came along, I just accepted it. What are my plans? In all honesty, I\u2019m simply trying to enjoy what\u2019s right in front of me: these two games with the national team, then a super exciting year professionally. I\u2019m happy that my family can stay in the same place for two years in a row\u2014the place where I want to be and where I feel wanted and appreciated. I\u2019m not thinking about next year at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simone Fontecchio, who is currently in Trento with Italbasket awaiting their away game in Tuzla, spoke with Beppe Nigro of *La Gazzetta dello Sport*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":511360,"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":[379,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italbasket","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/Simone-Fontecchio-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511370","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511370"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511370"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511370"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}