{"id":27389,"date":"2025-07-22T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27389\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:49:08","slug":"former-sixers-forward-chuma-okeke-to-sign-a-deal-with-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27389\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sixers forward Chuma Okeke to sign a deal with Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> needing bodies in an effort to get through the 2024-25 season amid all of the injuries, they gave former first-round pick Chuma Okeke a shot to keep things moving in the right direction for himself.<\/p>\n<p>Okeke was signed to a couple of different 10-day deals and played a total of seven games for the Sixers including three starts. In those games, he averaged 6.9 points and 6.1 rebounds while shooting 45.5% from deep. He was able to perform well enough to then earn an opportunity with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, Okeke will head overseas as he has reportedly agreed to a deal with Real Madrid. That will give his next chance to continue playing basketball at a professional level.<\/p>\n<p>Okeke has battled injuries in his career after being selected No. 16 overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Orlando Magic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Orlando Magic<\/a> back in 2019. It was good for him to get the opportunity with the Sixers as he now looks to build off what he did in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2025\/07\/21\/former-sixers-forward-chuma-okeke-to-sign-a-deal-with-real-madrid\/85309276007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Sixers forward Chuma Okeke to sign a deal with Real Madrid;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Sixers forward Chuma Okeke to sign a deal with Real Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Philadelphia 76ers needing bodies in an effort to get through the 2024-25 season amid all of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23702,8174,355,11950,2085,2113,4898,2112,99],"class_list":["post-27389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-chuma-okeke","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-nba","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-real-madrid","tag-sixers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}