{"id":309748,"date":"2022-12-24T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=309748"},"modified":"2022-12-24T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T13:24:57","slug":"round-15-mvp-keenan-evans-zalgiris-kaunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/round-15-mvp-keenan-evans-zalgiris-kaunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 15 MVP: Keenan Evans, Zalgiris Kaunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keenan Evans of Zalgiris Kaunas put on a memorable performance to make off with the MVP honor for Round 15, his first as a Turkish Airlines EuroLeague player. Evans posted a PIR of 39, the third highest of the season, after dominating from start to finish in Zalgiris&#8217;s 75-67 win over FC Bayern Munich. His 32 points \u2013 he went 6-for-6 on two-point shooting, 5-for-9 from three-point range and 5-for-8 on free throws \u2013 were the most by a Zalgiris player since 2014. He also added 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals in 31 minutes while drawing 6 fouls and committing only 1 turnover. He had a PIR of 18 after just 8 minutes played, and his 21 points by intermission were the most in the first half of any game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Following Evans was another guard, Nicolas Laprovittola of FC Barcelona, as he had a PIR of 31 in an 84-83 road loss against Valencia Basket. Laprovittola matched his career-high with 28 points, seeing 6-of-11 three-pointers drop, while he also had 7 assists and 4 rebounds. Luca Vildoza of Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade had the third-highest PIR with 29, the second-best of his 118-game EuroLeague career. Vildoza led Zvezda in its 86-90 win at Olympiacos Piraeus, as he combined 22 points with 8 assists and 4 rebounds. Bryant Dunston of Anadolu Efes Istanbul came next with a 28 PIR, his best in more than two years, in an 88-69 home win against Panathinaikos Athens. He recorded 13 points with 8 rebounds, 3 assists and a block. Jarell Martin of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv completed the top performances in Round 15 with a PIR of 27 in a 70-83 win on ALBA Berlin&#8217;s court, as the EuroLeague newcomer scored 21 points, including 4-for-7 shooting from downtown, to go with 7 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SH2tCtgjnvs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalgiris guard crowned for his big offensive performance in win over Bayern Munich in Kaunas yesterday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":309747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-309748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/928a45b4-23c0-4156-a86a-4335cccea557.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309748"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=309748"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=309748"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=309748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}