{"id":430750,"date":"2025-03-01T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=430750"},"modified":"2025-03-01T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:11:54","slug":"euroleague-round-27-co-mvps-sylvain-francisco-and-carlik-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-27-co-mvps-sylvain-francisco-and-carlik-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 27 co-MVPs: Sylvain Francisco and Carlik Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep\">\n<div class=\"container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem\">\n<p class=\"article-summary_articleSummary__ACuY_\">A pair of excellent individual performances in key wins on back-to-back nights at the same venue, Belgrade Arena, has seen Zalgiris Kaunas guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sylvain-francisco\/007975\/\">Sylvain Francisco<\/a>\u00a0and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade guard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/carlik-jones\/013369\/\">Carlik Jones\u00a0<\/a>secure Round 27 co-MVP honors. Both players accumulated a 31 PIR, the highest in this round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep container_container__8OqXW side-gaps_sideGaps__n4UTm\">\n<div class=\"rich-text_richtext__1JT_V\">\n<p>Francisco netted 25 points, the most he has scored in a road game in 60 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague appearances, as Zalgiris beat Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade 80-86 on Thursday. Those 25 points came after Francisco made 1-of-2 two-pointers, 6-of-9 three-pointers and 5-of-5 free throws. He also tied his career high with 6 rebounds, dished 4 assists, made 1 steal, had 1 block and drew 4 fouls. His +10 in the plus-minus column was the best of any Zalgiris player against Zvezda. This is Francisco\u2019s first MVP of the Round award in his second season in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Jones matched Francisco in Partizan\u2019s 86-73 win over the visiting Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. Jones netted 21 points, making 7-of-12 twos while also shooting 0-of-2 on threes and 7-of-7 from the free-throw line. He also had 6 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 steals and drew 7 fouls, while having a +14 in the plus-minus column. Jones, in his first season in the competition, has earned MVP of the Round honors for the second time, after his first one came in Round 22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sylvain Francisco was clutch in Belgrade\ud83e\udd76 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTCCqzwEct\">pic.twitter.com\/TTCCqzwEct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1895823794092327118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Carlik Jones led <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PartizanBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PartizanBC<\/a> to a huge win against Baskonia on Friday night! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2EoI66EJli\">pic.twitter.com\/2EoI66EJli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1895823263009472558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2025<\/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>This is the first time the Frenchman has been MVP of the Round, and the second time in the last six games for Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":430749,"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-430750","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\/2025\/03\/391133da-a718-48c6-a48c-26424decb9fa.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430750","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=430750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430750"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=430750"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=430750"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=430750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}