{"id":440077,"date":"2023-07-19T02:20:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T06:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=440077"},"modified":"2023-07-19T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:26:07","slug":"kings-officially-announces-vezenkov-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kings-officially-announces-vezenkov-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings officially announce Vezenkov deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings have officially announced that the team has signed Alexander Vezenkov. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Vezenkov was named the 2022\/23 EuroLeague MVP after averaging 17.6 points (55.3 FG%, 38.3 3pt%, 84.0 FT%), 6.9 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game in 40 games (39 starter) for Olympiakos. He also received the Alphonso Ford Trophy for the EuroLeague&#8217;s top scorer and was named to the All-EuroLeague All-Star Team for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n<p>Vezenkov began his career in the Greek Basketball League with Aris, spending four seasons with the team from 2011-15. He joined Barcelona where he spent the next three years (2015-18) before joining Olympiakos before the 2018\/19 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Sacramento Kings Sign Sasha Vezenkov<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdd\u23e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jnMb1EdATd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/jnMb1EdATd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MW57IgfXh9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MW57IgfXh9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SacramentoKings\/status\/1681457831361544193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Vezenkov was originally drafted with the 57th overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/brooklyn-nets\/\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>. Sacramento acquired his draft rights in a trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> during the 2022 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings have officially announced that the team has signed Alexander Vezenkov. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":440084,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19972,16941],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19973,17839],"acf":{"announce":"Last season's Euroleague MVP signed 2-year contract ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/440077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440077"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=440077"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=440077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}