{"id":409589,"date":"2024-10-19T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=409589"},"modified":"2024-10-19T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:16:11","slug":"euroleague-round-4-mvp-theo-maledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-4-mvp-theo-maledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 4 MVP: Theo Maledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep\">\n<div class=\"container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem\">\n<p class=\"article-summary_articleSummary__ACuY_\">A special performance in a come-from behind 76-69 win over Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz has seen LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/theo-maledon\/007027\/\">Theo Maledon<\/a>\u00a0secure MVP of the Round honors for the first time in his 24-game Turkish Airlines EuroLeague career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem side-gaps_sideGaps__n4UTm\">\n<div class=\"rich-text_richtext__1JT_V\">\n<p>The 23-year-old Maledon starred by posting a career-high 25 points in a low-scoring affair, making 1-of-3 two-point shots, sinking 5-of-10 triples and making all 8 of his free throws. He also pulled down 6 rebounds, had 3 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks, while drawing 7 fouls for a PIR of 36, the highest of any player in Round 4 and the joint highest in any game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Maledon are two Turkish Airlines EuroLeague veterans, each with a PIR of 30,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/shane-larkin\/007200\/\">Shane Larkin<\/a>\u00a0of Anadolu Efes Istanbul and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/kevin-punter\/009862\/\">Kevin Punter<\/a>\u00a0of FC Barcelona. Larkin led Efes in a 91-89 win over Olympiacos Piraeus with 24 points, making 5-of-7 two-pointers and 4-of-7 three-pointers, while also amassing 4 assists, 2 rebounds and 7 fouls drawn. Punter shined with 26 points on 10-for-13 field-goal shooting, in addition to posting 3 assists and 4 steals in a 94-98 overtime road win at Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade. Rounding out the list of Round 4&#8217;s top performers are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/mike-james\/005985\/\">Mike James<\/a>\u00a0of AS Monaco and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/shabazz-napier\/011224\/\">Shabazz Napier<\/a>\u00a0of FC Bayern Munich, each with a PIR of 29. James collected 19 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, 2 steals and drew 8 fouls in a 101-85 win over Virtus Segafredo Bologna, while Napier scored 27 points on 6-for-10 three-point shooting, with 5 assists, in a 109-107 win over Paris Basketball.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">25 PTS &amp; 6 REB and MVP of the Round after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LDLCASVEL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LDLCASVEL<\/a>&#8216;s comeback victory!\ud83d\udcab<\/p>\n<p>Theo Maledon delivered a career night in Round 4\ud83d\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>MVP of the Round I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaniniAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaniniAmerica<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NNbeSGC91\">pic.twitter.com\/7NNbeSGC91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1847608646034964951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 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>First MVP of the Round honor for the 23-year old guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":409590,"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-409589","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\/theo-maledon-euroleague-mvp.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409589","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=409589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409589"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=409589"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=409589"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=409589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}