{"id":759183,"date":"2026-07-12T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:19:15","slug":"nuggets-sign-euroleague-defender-of-the-year-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759183\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets sign EuroLeague Defender of the Year to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania says EuroLeague Defender of the Year, Alpha Diallo has signed a one-year deal with the Denver Nuggets worth $1.4 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe former Providence standout and Euro star makes the NBA jump at 29 years old on a guaranteed deal for the West contenders,\u201d Charania <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2076397365372866908\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2076397365372866908\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Diallo grew up in New York before moving to Denver later on, playing basketball for Denver West High School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He\u2019s an American\u2013born naturalized Guinean professional basketball player for AS Monaco of the French LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague. The forward is 6\u20327\u2033and should strengthen the Nuggets\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He played four years of college ball for the Providence Firars (2016-2020) where he averages 12.2 PPG over his career. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; ESPN Senior NBA Insider Shams Charania says EuroLeague Defender of the Year, Alpha&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-759183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759183","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=759183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}