{"id":514696,"date":"2026-09-10T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=514696"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:44:31","slug":"jalen-adams-joins-sichuan-blue-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jalen-adams-joins-sichuan-blue-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Adams joins Sichuan Blue Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-section-id=\"1i2qswl\" data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1382\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1382\">Jalen Adams heads back to China<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1511\"><strong data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1399\">Jalen Adams<\/strong> has reached an agreement with the <strong data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1457\">Sichuan Blue Whales<\/strong>, returning to the <strong data-start=\"1476\" data-end=\"1510\">Chinese Basketball Association<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1513\" data-end=\"1726\">The move marks a return to China for Adams after previous CBA stints with <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1598\">Qingdao<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1603\" data-end=\"1615\">Liaoning<\/strong>. He played several games for the Liaoning Flying Leopards in March 2024.<\/p>\n<h2 data-section-id=\"1a4fjjr\" data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1754\"><span role=\"text\"><strong data-start=\"1731\" data-end=\"1754\">Another CBA chapter<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1756\" data-end=\"1854\">The 1995-born American guard has built an international career across Europe, Australia and China.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1856\" data-end=\"2042\">Adams also enjoyed a successful spell in the <strong data-start=\"1901\" data-end=\"1930\">NBL with the Sydney Kings<\/strong>, winning the Australian championship in 2022 before returning to the CBA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2044\" data-end=\"2158\">He previously played for Qingdao in China and later joined Liaoning in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2228\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Adams will now begin a new chapter with the <strong data-start=\"2204\" data-end=\"2227\">Sichuan Blue Whales<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American guard returns to the CBA after previous spells with Qingdao and Liaoning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":514695,"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":[351],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-514696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/IMG_9387.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514696","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=514696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514696"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=514696"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=514696"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=514696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}