{"id":14383,"date":"2025-07-22T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14383\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:43:07","slug":"maodo-lo-joins-zalgiris-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14383\/","title":{"rendered":"Maodo Lo joins Zalgiris Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1850341\/maodo-lo-joins-zalgiris-kaunas\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/zalgiris-kaunas\/?lang=en\" title=\"Zalgiris\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zalgiris<\/a> Kaunas has signed veteran German guard Maodo Lo to a one-year deal, strengthening its backcourt for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old joins the Lithuanian champions with a strong EuroLeague resume and a FIBA World Cup gold medal won with Germany in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/zalgiris-kaunas\/?lang=en\" title=\"Zalgiris\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zalgiris<\/a> organization,\u201d said Lo. \u201cThe rich history and basketball tradition of this club have always stood out to me. Every time I played against Zalgiris, I could feel the incredible passion of its fans. I can\u2019t wait to be part of that amazing atmosphere!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Lo played for Paris Basketball, helping the team win the French league and cup titles. In EuroLeague play, he averaged 10 points, 2.1 assists, and shot nearly 58% on two-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaodo can both create for himself and get others involved,\u201d said Zalgiris sporting director Gediminas Navickas. \u201cHe\u2019s motivated, knows his role, and wants to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lo has played 249 EuroLeague games with teams like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/brose-bamberg\/?lang=en\" title=\"Brose Bamberg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brose Bamberg<\/a>, Bayern Munich, ALBA Berlin, Milan, and Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Zalgiris Kaunas has signed veteran German guard Maodo Lo to a one-year deal, strengthening its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-14383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}