{"id":254513,"date":"2021-05-20T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/luca-vildoza-joining-knicks-just-before-nba-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:41:03","slug":"luca-vildoza-joining-knicks-just-before-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luca-vildoza-joining-knicks-just-before-nba-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Luca Vildoza joining Knicks just before NBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Luca Vildoza joining Knicks just before NBA playoffs<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Knicks\u2019 newly signed combo guard Luca Vildoza is flying into New York Friday and will wear the number of an old Knicks icon when he arrives, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teamlucavildoza\/status\/1390778717690007554\">according to a\u00a0Spanish-language\u00a0Twitter account run by his press team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vildoza is slated to don \u201c17,\u2019\u2019 the number of former Knicks PG Jeremy Lin\u00a0\u2013 aka Linsanity. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Luca Vildoza is joining the Knicks after signing a four-year deal\" class=\"wp-image-18293888 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Luca Vildoza is joining the Knicks after signing a four-year deal<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Euroleague Basketball via Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whether Vildoza actually will wear it in a playoff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> this season is unclear. Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said Vildoza\u2019s signing is more of \u201ca summer thing.\u2019\u2019 Integrating him into the playing group might be too daunting a challenge on such short notice. <\/p>\n<p>The Knicks open the playoffs Sunday at 7 p.m. vs. the Hawks at the Garden. Game 2 is now set for Wednesday with Game 3 in Atlanta on Sunday. Everything is fluid but Thibodeau said recently, \u201cWe\u2019ll have time to evaluate him over the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/big-apple-buckets\/knicks-hawksplayoffpreview-predictionsfeat.dickbarnett?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Vildoza, 25, who played for Baskonia of the Spanish League, signed a four-year, $13.6 million deal earlier this month. The final three years aren\u2019t guaranteed. Vildoza\u2019s second season becomes guaranteed the day after the season opener, The Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>He will make $3.5 million this season \u2013 minus his Spanish buyout. The signing costs the Knicks players a bonus of $200,000 because the team no longer is under the salary-cap minimum. \u00a0\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Vildoza is slated to don \u201c17,\u2019\u2019 the number of former Knicks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/vildoza.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[106542,104925,70381,106181,72932],"class_list":["post-254513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-20-21","tag-luca-vildoza","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2021","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}