The pepper who go on with Jonas Valasūnas trades as a center considering the offer to play in Greece: relationship
Jonas Valasūnas may not back up Nikola Jokić’s backup after all. However, Denver’s Nugget are still determined to make it happen.
The Nuggets are going on an exchange for the Veterano Center, despite having considered an offer of the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, according to the journalist Marc Stein. Valasūnas is currently in Greece to meet Panathinaikos on the offer.
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To play in Greece, Valasūnas should negotiate a buyout of the remaining two years and $ 20.4 million remaining on his contract.
Just two days after the relationships emerged on an exchange of players agreed between the Nuggets and the kings who would have sent Avalačiūnas to Denver and the Big Man’s Veteran colleague Dario Šarić in Sacramento, the news broke the interest of Avalačiūnas to play abroad.
Donatas Urconas of Bankenews reported for the first time Thursday that Avalačiūs is thinking of leaving the NBA playing for the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens.
Stein confirmed Urbonas’ report according to which a return to Europe is tempting for Avalačiūs, a 33 -year -old center from Lithuania.
Although Denver and Sacramento have accepted the trade in Valasūnas -šarić, the exchange cannot be made official until Sunday.
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Trading for Avalačiūnas was part of an offseason restoration of Nuggets who started with the Michael Porter Jr. commercial franchise and an unprotected choice of the first round of 2032 at the Brooklyn networks for the striker Cameron Johnson. Denver also agreed a one-year agreement with the free-agent Bruce Brown wing, who played a key role for the Nuggets during a 2023 race to their first NBA title.
Avalačiūnas should have given Denver to the center behind Jokić, three times Mvp of the League.
The 6 feet-1-11 avalanches was drawn up no. 5 in total in 2011 by the Toronto Raptors, but did not make its debut at the NBA until the 2012-13 season. Before then, he played for the Pro Club Rytas Vilnius in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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A 13-year-old NBA veteran, Avalačiūs spent 2012-19 with the Raptors, except for the fact that it was exchanged in the middle of the 2018-19 campaign, which ended with the birds of prey led by Kawhi Leonard who won the NBA finals. Avalačiūnas was therefore sent to Memphis, where he played throughout the 2020-21 season. He was with New Orleans Pellicani in the following three seasons.
In 2024-25, he divided the time between the Washington Wizards and the kings. In 49 games and 12 departures, with magicians, Valasūnas scored on average 11.5 points and 8.2 rebounds in 20.1 minutes per game. In 32 games and nine he starts with the kings, he scored on average 8.7 points and 7 rebounds in 16.9 minutes per game.
While Avalačiūs started sparingly last season, he was part of the five games of his team in 848 of the 937 games he played during his career in the NBA. He made an average of a double double in each of the four seasons since 2019-23, a stretch that started with the Grizzlies and ended with the Pellicani.
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During his career, Valasūnas scored on average 13.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game while shooting 56% from the field and 34.1% from 3.