{"id":25581,"date":"2005-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/the-pacers-confirm-saras-will-play-for-us\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:17:11","slug":"the-pacers-confirm-saras-will-play-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/the-pacers-confirm-saras-will-play-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pacers confirm \u2013 Saras will play for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now it is official. Sarunas Jasikevicius will play for the Indiana Pacers in the next three seasons. President and CEO Donnie Walsh said today: &#8220;We made an agreement with him. We have a deal. Its&#8217;s big in Europe, there is no doubt about it. And I think that within the NBA, there are a lot of teams that have high regard for Sarunas&#8221;.<br \/> Walsh says that Saras is the number one European player. &#8220;He complements the players we have on the team now and he can be a great addition in a lot of areas \u2013 shooting, passing, competitiveness and professionalism. We were in a good position to compete for the championship before Sarunas. Now we are in an even better position&#8221;. <br \/> Saras is expected to travel to Indianapolis to sign wityh the pacers in the next 10 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-25581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493587,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25581\/revisions\/493587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25581"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=25581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}