{"id":93925,"date":"2024-09-02T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=93925"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:54:54","slug":"multiple-euroleague-teams-interested-signing-nba-veteran-evan-fournier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/02\/multiple-euroleague-teams-interested-signing-nba-veteran-evan-fournier\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple EuroLeague Teams Interested In Signing NBA Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after displaying a sincere <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/08\/31\/nba-veteran-will-consider-europe-if-left-unsigned-in-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">interest in accepting an offer<\/a> from a EuroLeague team, NBA free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fournev01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Fournier<\/a> already has three suitors. Chief among them is Olympiacos, as \u201cthe Greek red-and-white side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1711662\/evan-fournier-olympiacos-euroleague-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has expressed their intention<\/a> of going after the two-time Olympic silver medalist,\u201d according to Eurohoops insider Stavros Barbarousis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo official proposals have been submitted yet,\u201d Barbarousis adds, \u201cbut (Olympiacos head coach) Georgios Bartzokas\u2019 team could be next in line. Real Madrid and Milan are also awaiting progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably, in 2022, Fournier posted a tweet that read: \u201cIf I ever had to go back to Europe and I had the choice to go where I wanted, I think I would go to Olympiacos. It&#8217;s still a hell of a club.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Si un jour je devais retourner en Europe et que j\u2019avais le choix daller ou je veux, je pense que j\u2019irais a l\u2019Olympiacos. Cest quand meme un sacr\u00e9 club <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F4GLORY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#F4GLORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Fournier (@EvanFourmizz) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanFourmizz\/status\/1528049808199532545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 12-year NBA veteran spent two seasons playing for the LNB Pro A\u2019s Poitiers Basket 86 before being drafted in 2012.<\/p>\n<h2>Multiple EuroLeague Teams Interested In Signing NBA Veteran Evan Fournier<\/h2>\n<p>If he has the option to make an NBA roster, Fournier might take the chance no matter what. As he turns 32 years old in October, he might hope to squeeze out the last vestige of his athleticism <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/07\/06\/12-year-vet-wants-to-continue-nba-play-despite-recent-struggles-evan-fournier\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">before giving into fate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Fournier wants to play meaningful and consistent minutes. In fact, he all but pushed himself off the New York Knicks in pursuit of regular playing time. Once traded to the Detroit Pistons, he got that, averaging 18.7 minutes per game. The problem was that the Pistons weren\u2019t and aren\u2019t considered a playoff-contender. From Detroit\u2019s side, Fournier isn\u2019t ideally suited to help them navigate through their rebuild. Especially not with their backcourt logjam and his desire to play.<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019ve let him walk in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, while Fournier makes more sense for a competitive team due to his age and experience, his decline makes him difficult to rely on. That\u2019s not what a contender \u2014playoff or championship\u2014 is looking for. To make matters worse, just being on a good team isn\u2019t good enough for him, as evidenced by how his time with the Knicks ended. Based on both his ability and his attitude, more teams than not will pass on him.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s led the former star to where he is today.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word On Evan Fournier<\/h3>\n<p>FIBA\u2019s rules may fit Fournier better. There\u2019s less distance to cover defensively. The 3-point line is closer in. Lastly, skill and basketball IQ carry more weight than athleticism.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Fournier didn\u2019t play particularly well in the Paris Olympics, which utilized FIBA rules. However, if his 15-point performance against Canada in the Paris Olympics proved anything, it\u2019s that he still has a bit left in the tank. His best days may be behind them, but there could still be many great days ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after displaying a sincere interest in accepting an offer from a EuroLeague team, NBA free agent Evan Fournier already has three suitors. Chief among them is Olympiacos, as \u201cthe Greek red-and-white side has expressed their intention of going after the two-time Olympic silver medalist,\u201d according to Eurohoops insider Stavros Barbarousis. \u201cNo official proposals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":93944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1608,10,12,17],"tags":[1721,131,297],"class_list":["post-93925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-pistons","category-knicks","category-magic","tag-euroleague","tag-evan-fournier","tag-nba-free-agency"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}