{"id":533897,"date":"2026-09-23T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533897"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:28:27","slug":"mac-mcclung-turned-down-more-than-10-euroleague-offers-i-didnt-want-to-chase-the-most-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mac-mcclung-turned-down-more-than-10-euroleague-offers-i-didnt-want-to-chase-the-most-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac McClung turned down more than 10 EuroLeague offers: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to chase the most money&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mac McClung had plenty of options, but ultimately chose FIATC Girona by following his instincts. Over the past two years, the American guard received more than 10 offers from EuroLeague clubs, yet money was not the deciding factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told my agent, \u2018I don\u2019t want to chase the most money. It doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019\u201d McClung told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andreucollcarbo\/status\/2102820287108862406\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andreucollcarbo\/status\/2102820287108862406\">Andreu Coll<\/a>. Conversations with Moncho Fern\u00e1ndez, Fernando San Emeterio and Marc Gasol quickly convinced him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy agent and I agreed on following our hearts. When I talked to them, I think this feels like home,\u201d McClung said. He added that his priority was finding \u201csomewhere that kind of felt like home away from home.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American guard chose FIATC Girona despite receiving numerous offers over the past two years, prioritizing the right environment over financial incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":508700,"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":true,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/mac-mcclung.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533897","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=533897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533899,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533897\/revisions\/533899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533897"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533897"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533897"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}