{"id":317550,"date":"2021-08-06T23:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-pick-rokas-jokubaitis-could-join-nba-sooner-than-expected\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T23:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:56:19","slug":"knicks-pick-rokas-jokubaitis-could-join-nba-sooner-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-pick-rokas-jokubaitis-could-join-nba-sooner-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks pick Rokas Jokubaitis could join NBA sooner than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks pick Rokas Jokubaitis could join NBA sooner than expected<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Maybe Lithuanian combo guard Rokas Jokubaitis won\u2019t turn into a European \u201cstash\u201d pick after all.<\/p>\n

After the Knicks\u2019 second Las Vegas summer-league practice, Jokubaitis, selected 34th<\/sup> in last Thursday\u2019s NBA draft, said it\u2019s still an \u201coption\u201d to come this season, though he\u2019d have to be bought out from his Spanish League team.<\/p>\n

That club, Barcelona, is allowing the lefty Lithuanian to play three summer-league game<\/a>s for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, there is an option,\u201d Jokubaitis said on a Zoom call Friday. \u201cBut it will be very, very intriguing thing. I\u2019m into Europe. But if something will go very well plans could be changed, would change. I don\u2019t know what to expect, but I\u2019m looking forward to summer league and we\u2019ll see how it will go. Right now the plan is to go to Europe, but you never know in basketball, because basketball is a sport where anything can happ<\/a>en.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Knicks draft pick Rokas Jokubaitis playing for Zalgiris Kaunas in February.<\/figcaption>
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It\u2019s been previously reported Jokubaitis is a sure thing to play in Barcelona. The Knicks added to their point-guard corps in signing Kemba Walker, but his knee is always a concern. Luca Vildoza, signed by the Knicks last May from the Spanish League, is also a combo guard and will arrive in Las Vegas in a few days from the Olympics, where he didn\u2019t excel. Vildoza has a non-guaranteed four-year deal.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Barcelona) said I can play three games but we\u2019ll see how it will go,\u201d Jokubaitis said. \u201cIt depends upon my performance, first of all. And I cannot tell you how it will be but I\u2019m looking forward to playing as good as I can and after this whole summer league we\u2019ll see how it will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

After two summer-league practices, Jokubaitis already sees the adjustment from Europe. He played in Lithuania the last two seasons and is set to join the tougher Spanish League for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest adjustment will be the aggressiveness, the contact level, like the speed of basketball is higher than Europe,\u2019\u2019 Jokubaitis said. \u201cIn this few practices, I saw that where I can be better because the tempo, I\u2019m not used to that. Playing in this system, I\u2019ll need some time. I think I\u2019d improve and will improve. We\u2019ll see in summer league what I need more to be in the top league in the world. I\u2019m not used to that speed and aggressiveness.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Knicks pick Rokas Jokubaitis could join NBA sooner than expected” Maybe Lithuanian combo guard Rokas Jokubaitis won\u2019t turn into a European \u201cstash\u201d pick after all. After the Knicks\u2019 second Las Vegas summer-league practice, Jokubaitis, selected 34th in last Thursday\u2019s NBA draft, said it\u2019s still an \u201coption\u201d to come this season, though he\u2019d have to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Knicks-Rokas-Jokubaitis.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113541,73675,81896,113635,72932,113636],"class_list":["post-317550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-6-21","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-2021","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-rokas-jokubaitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317550","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=317550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}