{"id":563915,"date":"2026-11-13T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=563915"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:08:40","slug":"josh-hart-joins-napoli-basketball-ownership-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/josh-hart-joins-napoli-basketball-ownership-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hart joins Napoli Basketball ownership group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Josh Hart<\/strong>, reigning NBA champion with the New York Knicks, has joined the ownership group of <strong>Napoli Basketball<\/strong>. Hart enters the project alongside <strong>Matt Hillman<\/strong>, his business partner and co-host of the popular \u201cRoommates\u201d podcast. Hart will also join Napoli Basketball\u2019s board with a strategic role, with both expected to support the club\u2019s sporting, commercial and social growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNapoli is a great comeback story, and in many ways it reminds me of what we have built with the Knicks,\u201d Hart said. \u201cIt is a project built on hard work, big dreams and the incredible passion Napoli fans have for their team.\u201d Hart also highlighted the club\u2019s European ambitions: \u201cThe fact that this club is already making noise in EuroCup says a lot about its ambitions. The Napoli project is only in the \u2018first quarter\u2019, and I am very excited to be part of a program that will do something special in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ownership group is led by <strong>Underdog Global Partners<\/strong>, which acquired Napoli Basketball in 2025, with <strong>Predictive VC<\/strong> joining as a minority shareholder in 2026. The club also stated that in August 2026 it received an initial approval to become a new franchise as part of the EuroLeague expansion process. \u201cJosh Hart represents Napoli and the tens of millions of proud Neapolitans around the world,\u201d said Napoli Basketball president and UGP founder <strong>Matt Rizzetta<\/strong>. \u201cHis dedication, humility and toughness are the values on which the Napoli project is built.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning NBA champion Josh Hart of the New York Knicks has joined the ownership group of Napoli Basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":563912,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[197,199,399,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-563915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","category-euroleague","category-nba","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/11\/hart.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563915","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563919,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563915\/revisions\/563919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563915"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=563915"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=563915"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=563915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}