{"id":408425,"date":"2024-10-12T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=408425"},"modified":"2024-10-12T19:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T17:16:52","slug":"euroleague-round-2-co-mvps-neal-sako-and-sasha-vezenkov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-2-co-mvps-neal-sako-and-sasha-vezenkov\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 2 co-MVPs: Neal Sako and Sasha Vezenkov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round 2 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season has already seen two players share MVP of the Round honors, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/neal-sako\/010545\/\">Neal Sako<\/a>\u00a0of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sasha-vezenkov\/003469\/\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/a>\u00a0of Olympiacos Piraeus each had a PIR 30 in their respective teams&#8217; victories.<\/p>\n<p>In just his second EuroLeague appearance, ASVEL big man Sako enjoyed a stellar performance in an 87-85 win over Virtus Segafredo Bologna. Sako was a thorn in Virtus\u2019s side all night long, scoring 19 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, making 2 steals and recording 2 blocks en route to a joint round-high 30 PIR. He shot 9 for 11 on two-pointers and went 1 for 2 from the free-throw line, while 5 of his 11 rebounds came on the offensive end. Sako is the first ASVEL player to be the MVP of the Round since William Howard in Round 12 of the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vezenkov earned his 10th MVP of the Round honor as Olympiacos defeated Zalgiris Kaunas 74-68, with the forward collecting 17 points and 11 rebounds. Vezenkov was 3 for 4 on two-pointers and 11 for 13 from the foul line, while he also had 1 assist, 1 steal and drew 7 fouls in fewer than 25 minutes on the floor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You cannot seperate them \ud83e\udd1d In Round Two, we have Co-MVPs \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Sasha Vezenkov dominated on his first home game back with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympiacos_BC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Olympiacos_BC<\/a> while Neal Sako had an INSANE Stat-Line for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LDLCASVEL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LDLCASVEL<\/a> \ud83e\udd76<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;MVP of the Round&#8217; I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaniniAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaniniAmerica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kQE5PDqN0n\">pic.twitter.com\/kQE5PDqN0n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1845072424502473146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 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>In just his second EuroLeague appearance, ASVEL big man Sako enjoyed a stellar performance in an 87-85 win over Virtus Segafredo Bologna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":408424,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-408425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/2035a62f-2673-4214-afc2-5f1b1788bc89.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408425","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=408425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408425"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=408425"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=408425"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=408425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}