{"id":10599,"date":"2025-07-20T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10599\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:44:10","slug":"olympiacos-interested-in-jones-garcia-who-impressed-at-summer-league-and-awaits-nba-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10599\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos interested in Jones-Garc\u00eda, who impressed at Summer League and awaits NBA offers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stavros Barbarousis\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Dominican swingman David Jones-Garc\u00eda stood out the most to Giorgos Bartzokas during this year\u2019s NBA Summer League, which the coach followed closely in person.<\/p>\n

Greek tactitian had been scouting Jones-Garc\u00eda since winter but eventually chose to go with Saben Lee, who fits the point guard role better than the Dominican.<\/p>\n

Jones-Garc\u00eda is 23 years old, 1.98 meters tall, and possesses the athleticism, decisiveness with the ball, and scoring ability from mid and long range that Olympiacos<\/a>\u2019 coach values. However, the player wants to try his luck in the NBA, which complicates matters since there are reports he may secure a contract there this year.<\/p>\n

Overall, in the Summer League, Jones-Garc\u00eda averaged 21.3 points (shooting 51.6% from the field, 50% from three, and 90% from the free-throw line), 6.3 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1.5 steals per game.<\/p>\n

That said, he lacks experience in the EuroLeague or any other top-level competition, having only played in the G League and Mexico, and remains untested under the pressure of elite competition.<\/p>\n

Still, due to his strong attributes, he is one of the players Giorgos Bartzokas favors, and if he opts for a player with those characteristics, Jones-Garc\u00eda will be the one targeted. That is, unless developments in the NBA intervene.<\/p>\n

Of course, he is not the only player on the Greek coach\u2019s list, as Olympiacos<\/a> is exploring several options to fill the guard position and complete the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Stavros Barbarousis\/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Dominican swingman David Jones-Garc\u00eda stood out the most to Giorgos Bartzokas during this year\u2019s NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}