{"id":93969,"date":"2024-09-02T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=93969"},"modified":"2024-09-02T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:15:00","slug":"euroleague-olympiacos-snatches-up-nba-free-agent-evan-fournier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/02\/euroleague-olympiacos-snatches-up-nba-free-agent-evan-fournier\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier EuroLeague Team Snatches Up NBA Free Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 12 seasons of NBA service under his belt, 31-year-old wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fournev01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Fournier<\/a> will sign a multi-year contract with the EuroLeague\u2019s Olympiacos, per multiple reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After 12 seasons, Evan Fournier is exiting the NBA and signing a two-year, $4 million-plus deal with Euroleague club Olympiacos, per sources. Fournier averaged nearly 10 points in France&#8217;s Silver Medal run at the Paris Olympics. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ErFKwEJl0W\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ErFKwEJl0W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1830640835546988684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There does seem to be some question about the length of his deal though. The Athletic\u2019s Shams Charania, a highly regarded NBA insider, reports that the deal is for two years. However, Eurohoops insider Aris Barkas \u2014who\u2019s more in-tune with international affairs \u2014says that it\u2019ll be a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Evan Fournier has informed Olympiacos that he is accepting their offer. The two sides are finalizing the exchange of paperwork making the deal official for a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>Fournier is returning to Europe after a decade for the Reds<\/p>\n<p>More at <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurohoopsnet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Eurohoopsnet<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurohoopsGR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EurohoopsGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aris Barkas (@arbarkas) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arbarkas\/status\/1830624466378093029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Barkas also makes note of Fournier\u2019s signing effects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/petrufi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Pertrusev<\/a>. Petrusev, who was taken with the 50th pick in 2021 NBA Draft, will extend his contract with Olympiacos. The team is then expected to move the Serbian big man, possibly to Crvena zvezda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">After the addition of Evan Fournier, Filip Petrusev is set to extend his contract with Olympiacos and loaned to another club for next season. It&#8217;s no secret that Crvena Zvezda has more than a strong interest in the player. More on <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurohoopsnet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Eurohoopsnet<\/a> and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurohoopsGR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EurohoopsGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aris Barkas (@arbarkas) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arbarkas\/status\/1830636133480304721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Olympiacos was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/02\/multiple-euroleague-teams-interested-signing-nba-veteran-evan-fournier\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">reported to have interest<\/a> in Fournier over Labor Day Weekend. Real Madrid and Olimpia Milano also had their eyes on the NBA veteran.<\/p>\n<h3>EuroLeague\u2019s Olympiacos Snatches Up Evan Fournier<\/h3>\n<p>The 20th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Fournier has scored 13.6 points per game on 37.4 percent shooting from 3 over the course of his career. However, he\u2019s had a dramatic drop in his play as of late. In the past two seasons, he\u2019s averaged just 6.5 points per game on 27.9 percent shooting from 3. Even in the Paris Olympics, Fournier showed that he\u2019s past his prime. Though he averaged 9.8 points in 20.6 minutes per game, he converted just 32.4 percent of his 3-point attempted.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the numbers, as Fournier\u2019s lost a step athletically. This has affected his on-ball defense and ability to score off-the-dribble. It may even be a factor in why he hasn\u2019t shot as well from deep if the Frenchman isn\u2019t getting enough lift.<\/p>\n<p>With that being said, many players who aren\u2019t considered explosive athletes excel in the EuroLeague. This, as well as the opportunity to play regular minutes with Olympiacos, could help Fournier get his basketball career off of life support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 12 seasons of NBA service under his belt, 31-year-old wing Evan Fournier will sign a multi-year contract with the EuroLeague\u2019s Olympiacos, per multiple reports. After 12 seasons, Evan Fournier is exiting the NBA and signing a two-year, $4 million-plus deal with Euroleague club Olympiacos, per sources. Fournier averaged nearly 10 points in France&#8217;s Silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":93982,"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":[62,1608,10,12,3,17],"tags":[1721,131,297],"class_list":["post-93969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-pistons","category-knicks","category-news","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\/93969","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=93969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}