{"id":516138,"date":"2026-09-16T21:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=516138"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:47:32","slug":"mark-anthony-ogden-jr-joins-zadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mark-anthony-ogden-jr-joins-zadar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Anthony Ogden Jr. joins Zadar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ko\u0161arka\u0161ki klub Zadar has announced the signing of <strong>Mark Anthony Ogden Jr.<\/strong>, a 31-year-old American center standing 208 centimeters tall. Ogden can play both power forward and center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ogden arrives from Italy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ogden spent last season with <strong>Dole Basket Rimini<\/strong> in Italy&#8217;s Serie A2, winning the Serie A2 Italian Cup in March 2026. He averaged <strong>12.2 points and 8 rebounds per game<\/strong> during the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extensive European experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zadar&#8217;s new big man has extensive experience in European basketball. During his career, he has played for <strong>BC GAU Tbilisi<\/strong> in Georgia, W\u00fcrzburg in Germany, Stal Ostr\u00f3w Wielkopolski in Poland, with whom he won the Polish championship, Hapoel Holon in Israel, Oradea in Romania, and Italian clubs <strong>Fortitudo Bologna and Brindisi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ogden is known as a mobile and athletic big man who can score from both inside and outside positions. He also brings physicality and rebounding ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contract through 2027<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ogden has signed a contract with Zadar through the end of the <strong>2026\/27 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With his arrival, Zadar has completed its roster ahead of the new competitive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Photo: FIBA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American big man has signed through the end of the 2026\/27 season and brings extensive European experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":516136,"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":[191,225],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-516138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aba-liga","category-croatia","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\/mark-ogden-fiba.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516138","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=516138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516141,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516138\/revisions\/516141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516138"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=516138"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=516138"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=516138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}