{"id":2062801,"date":"2026-07-26T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2062801"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:14:39","slug":"after-missing-on-lebron-cavaliers-agree-to-deal-with-euroleague-star-mario-hezonja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2062801","title":{"rendered":"After missing on LeBron, Cavaliers agree to deal with EuroLeague star Mario Hezonja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a one-year, $2.8 million deal with 31-year-old Croatian forward Mario Hezonja, a team source confirmed Sunday to <em>The Athletic<\/em>. The source spoke under the condition of anonymity to discuss a contract that had not been formally announced.<\/p>\n<div id=\"top-league-content-root\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes just days after LeBron James chose to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers rather than return to Cleveland, which drafted him No. 1 in 2003.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hezonja was drafted No. 5 in the 2015 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic. He averaged 6.9 points per game across five seasons for the Magic, New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 forward has played for multiple teams in Europe since 2021, most recently for Real Madrid, where he averaged 17.5 points per game last season.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a one-year, $2.8 million deal with 31-year-old Croatian forward Mario Hezonja, a team source confirmed Sunday to The Athletic. The source spoke under the condition of anonymity to discuss a contract that had not been formally announced. {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;} The deal comes just days after LeBron James chose to sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2062801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}