{"id":511940,"date":"2026-08-27T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=511940"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:33:22","slug":"aleksej-pokusevski-an-nba-return-is-a-realistic-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/aleksej-pokusevski-an-nba-return-is-a-realistic-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksej Pokusevski: \u201cAn NBA return is a realistic goal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1766\">Aleksej Pokusevski does not believe the door to the NBA has closed. After spending two seasons with Partizan and joining Lokomotiv Kuban, the Serbian forward confirmed to <em data-start=\"1690\" data-end=\"1706\">Meridian Sport<\/em> that he is still considering a return to the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1768\" data-end=\"2055\">\u201cI don\u2019t like thinking about unrealistic things, but I believe an NBA return is realistic, especially considering my age,\u201d Pokusevski said. He stressed that his priority is reaching a level where he can play well and earn the right status, whether at Lokomotiv or with a EuroLeague club.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2308\">The 2001-born player also addressed the possibility of obtaining a Greek passport. Pokusevski, who lived in Greece between the ages of 13 and 18 and maintains strong personal ties to the country, described it as a logical step unrelated to basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lokomotiv Kuban\u2019s new signing also discussed obtaining a Greek passport: \u201cIt is connected to my life, not basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":509221,"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":[249,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-511940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/BC6_3024.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511940","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=511940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511940"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=511940"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=511940"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=511940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}