{"id":175691,"date":"2025-07-17T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/175691\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T00:05:09","slug":"cavaliers-second-round-pick-saliou-niang-signs-with-virtus-bologna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/175691\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers Second-Round Pick Saliou Niang Signs With Virtus Bologna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-round Cavaliers draft pick <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/international\/players\/saliou-niang-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saliou Niang<\/a> has joined Italian EuroLeague squad Virtus Bologna, per a team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VirtusBo\/status\/1945504222050451878\" rel=\"nofollow\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20195\u2033 Senegalese swingman has been playing for Italian EuroLeague clubs since 2021\/22. Niang, 21, initially suited up for Fortitudo Bologna, but had been playing his trade with Trento since 2023\/24.<\/p>\n<p>The move had been previously <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/draft-notes-proctor-niang-markovic-grizzlies-olbrich-shulga.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expected<\/a>, now it\u2019s official. Niang will now get longer-term seasoning in the EuroLeague for at least one more year before he links up with Cleveland. The Cavaliers went 64-18 last season and are angling for deeper postseason success this year, and Niang would have faced an uphill battle to crack the club\u2019s rotation anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Across 30 Italian League games for Trento in 2024\/25, Niang averaged 8.1 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 1.4 APG and 0.6 SPG. He posted shooting splits of .532\/.333\/.712.<\/p>\n<p>Virtus Bologna is something of a powerhouse in the Italian League, having won it outright three times in the past four seasons, and having won the Italian Cup as recently as 2022\/23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-round Cavaliers draft pick Saliou Niang has joined Italian EuroLeague squad Virtus Bologna, per a team tweet. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,21720],"class_list":{"0":"post-175691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-saliou-niang"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114865656752507009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}