{"id":516111,"date":"2026-09-16T21:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=516111"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:48:56","slug":"mike-james-explains-efes-move-well-have-a-chance-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-james-explains-efes-move-well-have-a-chance-to-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike James explains Efes move: &#8220;We\u2019ll have a chance to compete&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike James explained why he decided to leave Monaco after five seasons and join Anadolu Efes. The 36-year-old American highlighted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n_dAh249Sdo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n_dAh249Sdo\">Deniz Aksoy<\/a> the project being built by the Turkish club, which also added Dario Saric and Matthew Strazel during the offseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe conversations we had and just what they thought about the team this year and everything going on. The GM and Pablo,\u201d James said during EuroLeague Media Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust seeing what they had planned and what they envisioned for me, and just the team they were putting together. I just thought it was good and thought we would have a chance to compete. I still feel that way, so I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five seasons with Monaco, the EuroLeague\u2019s all-time leading scorer was convinced by Anadolu Efes\u2019 project and ambitions for the new season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":513780,"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":[315,199],"tags":[665,1310],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-516111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsl","category-euroleague","tag-anadolu-efes-istanbul-en","tag-mike-james-en","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Mike-James.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516111","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=516111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516112,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516111\/revisions\/516112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516111"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=516111"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=516111"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=516111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}