{"id":813580,"date":"2026-07-21T03:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813580\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:55:16","slug":"mario-hezonja-is-leaving-real-madrid-and-going-to-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813580\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Hezonja is leaving Real Madrid and going to the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stefan Acevski<\/p>\n

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After four successful seasons in Madrid, Hezonja is returning to the NBA, where he has already played for three teams<\/p>\n

By Stefan Acevski \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Mario Hezonja has informed Real Madrid<\/a> that he will leave the club this summer and return to the NBA.<\/p>\n

This information was reported by journalist Chema de Lucas.<\/a><\/p>\n

The turbulent summer continues in Madrid. Real has changed its coach and a large number of players, and now they\u2019ve learned that they will also lose Hezonja, a key player from previous seasons.<\/p>\n

Although he had a contract until 2029, Hezonja had an NBA opt-out clause until July 20, which he decided to exercise.<\/p>\n

Mario has decided to return to the NBA, where he already played for the Orlando Magic<\/a> from 2015 to 2018, then for the New York Knicks<\/a> in the 2018-2019 season, as well as one year with the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Croatian forward played in Europe for Barcelona for three seasons, and after returning from the NBA, he played for Panathinaikos<\/a> and UNICS.<\/p>\n

He has been with Real Madrid<\/a> since 2022, winning one EuroLeague, two Endesa leagues, one Copa del Rey, and two Super Cups with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-20T21:41:53+00:00 2026-07-20T21:41:53+00:00 2026-07-20T22:17:07+00:00. Stefan Acevski 20\/Jul\/26 21:41 Eurohoops.net Stefan Acevski EuroleagueBasketball.net After four successful seasons in Madrid, Hezonja…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-813580","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\/813580","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=813580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}