{"id":8407,"date":"2025-07-19T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8407\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:59:08","slug":"celtics-fan-favorite-center-in-high-demand-for-european-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/8407\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; fan favorite center in high demand for European contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Theis was a favorite of Boston Celtics during his five years wearing the green.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s turned into a basketball journeyman, though. He spent NBA time with the Bulls, Rockets, Pacers, Clippers and Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans traded Theis to the Thunder in February, but he was immediately released. From there, he signed with AS Monaco to finish off the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it sounds like Theis is staying in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozzartsport.com\/kosarka\/vesti\/partizan-se-raspitao-za-danijela-tajsa-potraga-za-centrom-i-dalje-traje\/518148\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mozzart Sport;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mozzart Sport<\/a> writes that Theis is most likely to stay with Monaco this season, but he has interest from at least two other big clubs, Parizan Belgrade and Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers\/news\/damian-lillard-portland-trail-blazers-legacy-officially-secure-contract-decision\/9d92a444fd44b8f0d0090a38\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Damian Lillard&#039;s Portland legacy is officially secure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Damian Lillard&#8217;s Portland legacy is officially secure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theis is 33 years old now. The big German may have decided this is the best path forward with his hoops career.<\/p>\n<p>With Monaco in eight EuroLeague games, Theis averaged 13.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game. He also made 41.7% of his 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It definitely seems like a partnership that worked, so Theis heading back to Monaco seems like a solid move.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Theis was a favorite of Boston Celtics during his five years wearing the green. He&#8217;s turned into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[8839,1222,49,48,8840,3557,8837,8838,459,2694,8842,8841,82],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-as-monaco","tag-boston-celtics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clippers","tag-damian-lillard","tag-daniel-theis","tag-mozzart-sport","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-pacers","tag-pelicans","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","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=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}