{"id":534880,"date":"2026-09-27T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=534880"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T07:57:20","slug":"paok-close-to-a-deal-with-donatas-motiejunas-to-strengthen-the-frontcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paok-close-to-a-deal-with-donatas-motiejunas-to-strengthen-the-frontcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"PAOK, close to a deal with Donatas Motiej\u016bnas to strengthen the frontcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PAOK are working to add a new player to their frontcourt, with Donatas Motiej\u016bnas among the profiles being considered most closely. The Lithuanian center, 36 years old and 2.13 meters tall, is reportedly close to reaching an agreement with the Thessaloniki side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motiej\u016bnas would be PAOK\u2019s first choice, although the club continues to evaluate other options on the market in order to identify the right profile. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport24.gr\/basket\/paok-konta-se-simfonia-me-motiegiounas-exetazontai-kai-alles-epiloges-apo-to-pano-rafi\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sport24.gr\/basket\/paok-konta-se-simfonia-me-motiegiounas-exetazontai-kai-alles-epiloges-apo-to-pano-rafi\/\">Sport24<\/a> reports that the Greek side is also monitoring other high-level players to complete the frontcourt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lithuanian brings extensive EuroLeague experience. Over the last five seasons, he played in the competition for four years with Monaco and one with Crvena Zvezda. Last season, he appeared in 27 games, averaging 6.1 points and 1.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lithuanian center would be the Thessaloniki side\u2019s first choice to strengthen its frontcourt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":340081,"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":[197],"tags":[7174,4407],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-534880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","tag-donatas-motiejunas-en-2","tag-paok-thessaloniki","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/07\/2022Degaspari23Dicembre023.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534880","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534883,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534880\/revisions\/534883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534880"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=534880"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=534880"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=534880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}