{"id":51819,"date":"2025-08-08T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51819\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:17:06","slug":"international-notes-skapintsev-white-wiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51819\/","title":{"rendered":"International Notes: Skapintsev, White, Wiley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/skapidm01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dmytro Skapintsev<\/a> has signed a one-year contract with Hapoel Jerusalem, the Israeli team announced in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hapoel.co.il\/news?NewsId=62586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press release<\/a> (hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dmytro-skapintsev-joins-hapoel-jerusalem-on-11-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sportando<\/a>). Skapintsev\u2019s deal also features an option for year two, though it\u2019s unclear whether it\u2019s a team, player or mutual option.<\/p>\n<p>Skapintsev, who was briefly on a two-way contract with the Knicks in 2023\/24 and appeared in two NBA games with New York, has spent the past three years in the G League. The 27-year-old spent two seasons with the Westchester Knicks prior to inking an Exhibit 10 deal with Boston last fall for training camp (he was cut before \u201924\/25 began).<\/p>\n<p>In 44 total games with the Maine Celtics and Rip City Remix (Blazers\u2019 affiliate) in \u201924\/25, the 7\u20191\u2033 Ukrainian averaged 8.8 points, 7.8 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 blocks in 23.8 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple more items of interest from overseas:<\/p>\n<p>Free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/whiteja03.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack White<\/a> has signed with Mesin MSK for the upcoming season, the Turkish team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mersin_msk\/status\/1953521830053978226\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Twitter<\/a>; hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/1953566789167985006\" rel=\"nofollow\">Olgun Uluc of ESPN<\/a>). The 28-year-old holds two years of NBA experience, having played for Denver in 2022\/23 and Memphis in 2023\/24. He suited up for Melbourne United in his native Australia last season and then finished out \u201924\/25 with Bayern Munich, winning a domestic championship with the German club. White, who played for the Hawks\u2019 Summer League team last month, averaged 13.8 PPG and 9.4 RPG on .513\/.326\/.659 shooting in 27 games (26.1 MPG) with Melbourne in \u201924\/25.<br \/>\nForward Jacob Wiley is finalizing a contract with Lithuanian club Rytas Vilnius, sources tell Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.com (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Urbodo\/status\/1953537920599830893\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 30-year-old, who spent part of the 2017\/18 season on a two-way deal with Brooklyn, has enjoyed a long international career, playing for teams in Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Spain and New Zealand over the past several years. Wiley suited up for Spanish club Granada the past two seasons.<br \/>\nIn case you missed it, all of the latest international developments \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diallha01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hamidou Diallo<\/a>\u2018s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/08\/hamidou-diallo-signs-two-year-deal-with-baskonia.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-year deal<\/a> with Baskonia \u2014 can be found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent center Dmytro Skapintsev has signed a one-year contract with Hapoel Jerusalem, the Israeli team announced in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,43530,43531,43532,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-51819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-dmytro-skapintsev","12":"tag-jack-white","13":"tag-jacob-wiley","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819","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=51819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}