{"id":514242,"date":"2026-09-08T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514242"},"modified":"2026-09-08T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:22:23","slug":"thomas-walkup-here-is-how-much-dubai-paid-for-the-olympiacos-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/thomas-walkup-here-is-how-much-dubai-paid-for-the-olympiacos-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Walkup: here is how much Dubai paid for the Olympiacos star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Walkup&#8217;s move from Olympiacos to Dubai Basketball came with a significant financial investment, although the figures appear to be lower than initially reported in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-255109-dubai-basketball-thomas-walkup-contract-deal-euroleague.html?utm_campaign=mrf-bn-twitter-BasketNews_com&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202609086a9fb4a7e084cc6209ce73d4\">BasketNews<\/a>, the buyout fee was around \u20ac1.55 million, with Walkup himself covering half of the amount. His new contract is reportedly worth approximately \u20ac2.15 million gross per year. Initial reports in Greece had placed the buyout at \u20ac2.3 million and his annual salary close to \u20ac3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Those are still superstar-level figures for a player whose value comes primarily from elite defense, leadership and his ability to make those around him better, rather than from being a go-to offensive star capable of changing games on his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buyout and salary are reportedly lower than the figures initially reported in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":312832,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/COS_1831.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514242","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514242"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514242"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514242"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}