{"id":562621,"date":"2026-11-10T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=562621"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:34:06","slug":"baskonia-in-advanced-talks-to-sign-rolands-smits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/baskonia-in-advanced-talks-to-sign-rolands-smits\/","title":{"rendered":"Baskonia in advanced talks to sign Rolands Smits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baskonia are closing in on a frontcourt addition, with Rolands Smits emerging as a concrete target. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cadenaser.com\/euskadi\/2026\/11\/10\/el-baskonia-avanza-en-el-fichaje-de-rolands-smits-para-reforzar-la-pintura-ser-vitoria\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cadenaser.com\/euskadi\/2026\/11\/10\/el-baskonia-avanza-en-el-fichaje-de-rolands-smits-para-reforzar-la-pintura-ser-vitoria\/\">SER Vitoria<\/a>, the Spanish club are in advanced negotiations with the Latvian big man, who is currently playing in China for the Ningbo Rockets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smits has appeared in eight games in the Chinese league and is negotiating an exit through either a contract termination or a transfer to return to Europe. Baskonia had already made contact with him several weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 31-year-old has 249 EuroLeague appearances to his name, having played for Barcelona, Zalgiris Kaunas and Anadolu Efes. Last season, he averaged 6.7 points and 3.1 rebounds in 35 EuroLeague games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latvian big man is close to leaving the Ningbo Rockets to return to Europe: Baskonia are closing in on a frontcourt addition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":312766,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-562621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/C48105A5-8C97-473B-8A14-CDCC83839834.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562621","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=562621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562622,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562621\/revisions\/562622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562621"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=562621"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=562621"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=562621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}