{"id":200478,"date":"2025-07-29T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/200478\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:58:11","slug":"and-ones-spagnolo-storylines-offseason-grades-givony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/200478\/","title":{"rendered":"And-Ones: Spagnolo, Storylines, Offseason Grades, Givony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/spagnma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matteo Spagnolo<\/a>, whose NBA rights are held by the Timberwolves, is expected to continue his EuroLeague career by signing a multi-year deal with Spain\u2019s Baskonia, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-228509-timberwolves-draft-pick-close-to-joining-baskonia.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BasketNews\u2019 Donatas Urbonas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota selected Spagnolo with the 50th overall pick of the 2022 draft. The point guard\u2019s contract with Baskonia includes NBA exit clauses.<\/p>\n<p>He is coming off a second EuroLeague season with ALBA Berlin, for which he averaged 9.6 points, 2 rebounds, and 3.8 assists in 21 minutes per game. Spagnolo played for the Timberwolves\u2019 Summer League team the year he was drafted but since hasn\u2019t participated in any NBA contest.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more from around the international basketball world:<\/p>\n<p>What are the big storylines still hovering over the NBA this offseason? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45813852\/nba-free-agency-unresolved-storylines-kuminga-giddey-luka-extension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Tim Bontemps and Bobby Marks<\/a> examine that topic, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuminjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Kuminga<\/a>\u2018s restricted free agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/doncilu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luka Doncic<\/a>\u2018s extension talks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbru01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russell Westbrook<\/a>\u2018s free agency among the issues that have yet to be resolved.<br \/>\nThe Hawks, Nuggets, Rockets get the highest marks from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45836861\/nba-offseason-grades-2025-26-season-boston-celtics-oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN\u2019s Kevin Pelton<\/a> for their offseason moves. Pelton hands out grades for every team in the league, with the Pelicans receiving an F for their transactions.<br \/>\nDraft expert Jonathan Givony has left ESPN after an eight-year stint with the network, he announced on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1948479142913343872\" rel=\"nofollow\">his Twitter page<\/a>. ESPN offered him extension but Givony declined, stating \u201cwe were unable to find alignment on my value to the company.\u201d He will continue to analyze the draft as well as college, high school, and international basketball for the company he founded, DraftExpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matteo Spagnolo, whose NBA rights are held by the Timberwolves, is expected to continue his EuroLeague career by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,2573,867,368,35509,307,152,3954,6,254,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-200478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-marks","10":"tag-jonathan-kuminga","11":"tag-luka-doncic","12":"tag-matteo-spagnolo","13":"tag-minnesota","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-russell-westbrook","18":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200478","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=200478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}