Overview
- Baskonia confirmed the signing after initial reporting by Chema de Lucas, with the club announcement published and carried by Eurohoops on August 24–25, 2026.
- Faried, 36, arrives on a one-year contract after a 2025-26 season at Panathinaikos where he played 35 EuroLeague games and averaged 5.2 points and 3.7 rebounds.
- He earned EuroLeague MVP of the Month in November and was part of Panathinaikos’s Greek Cup-winning squad, though he did not play in the final and his role shrank late in the domestic season.
- Faried brings extensive experience from more than 450 NBA games, seven seasons with the Denver Nuggets, stints with the Nets and Rockets, and a prior EuroLeague season with CSKA Moscow in 2021–22.
- Baskonia gains immediate frontcourt depth in Vitoria-Gasteiz and may use Faried for physical defense and rebounding while the club evaluates longer-term rotation plans for the 2026-27 EuroLeague campaign.