{"id":533479,"date":"2026-09-22T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533479"},"modified":"2026-09-22T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:27:13","slug":"zalgiris-kaunas-sporting-director-navickas-the-euroleague-transfer-process-is-becoming-uncontrollable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zalgiris-kaunas-sporting-director-navickas-the-euroleague-transfer-process-is-becoming-uncontrollable\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalgiris Kaunas sporting director Navickas: &#8220;The EuroLeague transfer process is becoming uncontrollable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zalgiris Kaunas sporting director Gediminas Navickas believes the EuroLeague needs clearer transfer rules. He pointed to the Thomas Walkup-Dubai Basketball saga and Panathinaikos\u2019 interest in Nigel Williams-Goss as recent examples. \u201cWe do see a threat. The facts showed that, and the interest from Panathinaikos was definitely there,\u201d Navickas said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zalgiris ultimately kept Williams-Goss, who was considered a key part of the team. \u201cWe never considered or even named a price for which we could sell Nigel because he is an important part of the team.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navickas believes the issue requires broader action across the league. \u201cWe are raising this issue and will continue to do so, because we see that the process is becoming a little uncontrollable,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zalgiris Kaunas sporting director is calling for stronger protection for clubs against approaches to players who remain under contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":533477,"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":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/9luBtydd_400x400.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533479","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=533479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533480,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533479\/revisions\/533480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533479"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533479"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533479"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}