{"id":514137,"date":"2026-01-03T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514137\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:31:10","slug":"jonas-valanciunas-addresses-nba-future-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514137\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Valanciunas addresses NBA future in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-237988-jonas-valanciunas-nba-nuggets-future-euroleague-panathinaikos.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;My plan is to be here all season, my plan is to play for Denver. What happened happened, there were a lot of talks, but now I&#039;m here. I&#039;m proud to represent Denver, so that&#039;s all,&quot; Jonas Valanciunas told BasketNews after the game against the Raptors,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;My plan is to be here all season, my plan is to play for Denver. What happened happened, there were a lot of talks, but now I&#8217;m here. I&#8217;m proud to represent Denver, so that&#8217;s all,&#8221; Jonas Valanciunas told BasketNews after the game against the Raptors,<\/a> in which he exited late in the third quarter due to his calf injury. The 33-year-old did not want to expand much on his long-term future, which remains uncertain. The final year of his contract, the 2026-27 season, is not guaranteed and will only become fully guaranteed on July 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-237988-jonas-valanciunas-nba-nuggets-future-euroleague-panathinaikos.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BasketNews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BasketNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;My plan is to be here all season, my plan is to play for Denver. What happened happened,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,301,6890,6,6834],"class_list":{"0":"post-514137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-jonas-valanciunas","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-the-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115831890512600869","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514137","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=514137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}