{"id":386284,"date":"2024-05-04T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=386284"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:31:32","slug":"euroleague-playoffs-game-4-mvp-kostas-sloukas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-playoffs-game-4-mvp-kostas-sloukas\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Playoffs Game 4 MVP: Kostas Sloukas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning individual performance in a do-or-die victory allowed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/kostas-sloukas\/001926\/\">Kostas Sloukas<\/a>\u00a0of Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens to earn Game 4 MVP honors in the 2023-24 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs with a PIR of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Sloukas led Panathinaikos to an 88-95 road victory over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, tying the best-of-five series and forcing a Game 5 at OAKA in the Greek capital next week. He netted 20 points on 5-of-9 two-pointers, 1-of-2 three-pointers and 7-of-7 free throws, in addition to adding 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 5 fouls drawn. Sloukas earned MVP of the Round honors for the third time this season and for the fifth time in his career, including last season&#8217;s Game 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/shaquielle-mckissic\/007853\/\">Shaquielle McKissic<\/a>\u00a0of Olympiacos Pireaus, Sloukas\u2019s former teammate, amassed a PIR of 28 in his team&#8217;s 92-58 triumph over FC Barcelona. McKissic had 21 points on 6-of-7 two-pointers, 2-of-4 three-pointers and 3-of-3 free throws, as well as 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 2 fouls drawn.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/kendrick-nunn\/012774\/\">Kendrick Nunn<\/a>\u00a0of Panathinaikos recorded a PIR of 27 against Maccabi, getting 27 points on 6-of-8 two-pointers, 3-of-7 from downtown and 6-of-6 free throws, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 fouls drawn.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/mathias-lessort\/003842\/\">Mathias Lessort<\/a>, also of Panathinaikos (26 PIR), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/georgios-papagiannis\/005844\/\">Georgios Papagiannis<\/a>\u00a0of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul (20) complete the top individual performances in Game 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In an elimination game, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kos_slou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kos_slou<\/a> was locked IN \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n<p>Helping <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paobcgr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@paobcgr<\/a> force a Game Five in Athens and in doing so claiming MVP of Game 4 of the Playoffs \ud83d\udc4f <\/p>\n<p>&#39;MVP of the Playoffs&#39; I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaniniAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaniniAmerica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YlmzsXzNO2\">pic.twitter.com\/YlmzsXzNO2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1786713600876306709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sloukas earned MVP of the Round honors for the third time this season and for the fifth time in his career, including last season&#8217;s Game 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":386283,"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-386284","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\/2024\/05\/6219bc52-b639-4230-97f2-09614a129610.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386284","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386284"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=386284"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=386284"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=386284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}