{"id":435169,"date":"2025-03-27T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=435169"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:07:55","slug":"euroleague-round-31-mvp-kendrick-nunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-31-mvp-kendrick-nunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 31 MVP: Kendrick Nunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep\">\n<div class=\"container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem\">\n<p class=\"article-summary_articleSummary__ACuY_\">A dominant performance in a winning effort has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/teams\/panathinaikos-aktor-athens\/pan\/\">Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens<\/a>\u00a0superstar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/kendrick-nunn\/012774\/\">Kendrick Nunn<\/a>\u00a0secure Round 31 MVP honors with a PIR of 34.<\/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>Nunn played a season-high 38:14 minutes as Panathinaikos beat Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 92-99, with the February MVP of the Month posting 26 points on 2-of-2 two-pointers, 5-of-10 three-pointers and 7-of-7 free throws, as well as 5 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal, 1 block and 5 fouls drawn. Having previously been the MVP of the Round in Game 5 of the 2024 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs and Round 26 of this current campaign, this is the third time that Nunn has achieved this feat.<\/p>\n<p>Olympiacos Piraeus forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sasha-vezenkov\/003469\/\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/a>\u00a0recorded the highest index rating in Round 31 with a 36 PIR, but it came in a losing effort as the Reds fell 81-70 at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne. Vezenkov poured in 25 points on 5-of-6 twos, 3-of-6 threes and 6-of-6 free throws, while he also grabbed 10 rebounds, dished 1 assist, made 1 steal and drew 3 fouls.<\/p>\n<p>The third-best index rating was shared between ASVEL\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/theo-maledon\/007027\/\">Theo Maledon<\/a>\u00a0and Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/brandon-davies\/007870\/\">Brandon Davies<\/a>, who both had a 28 PIR \u2013 a season high in the case of Davies. Maledon recorded 23 points on 4-of-7 twos, 2-of-5 threes and 9-of-9 free throws, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 7 fouls drawn in ASVEL\u2019s win against Olympiacos, while Davies netted a season-best 22 points on 7-of-8 two-pointers, 2-of-2 triples and 2-of-3 free throws in his team\u2019s 85-71 triumph over ALBA Berlin, in addition to recording 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals and 7 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Also sharing a 27 PIR in Round 31 were Panathinaikos\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/juancho-hernangomez\/012712\/\">Juancho Hernangomez<\/a>\u00a0and Real Madrid\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/walter-tavares\/005791\/\">Walter Tavares<\/a>. Hernangomez amassed 18 points on 1-of-3 twos, 4-of-6 threes and 4-of-6 free throws, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block and 3 fouls drawn in the Greens\u2019 win, while Tavares finished with 19 points on 8-of-8 twos and 3-of-4 free throws, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 2 blocks, 2 fouls drawn and a PIR as Real Madrid beat EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 96-89.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Check out the highlights on the road&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Doing a bit of everything once again \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1cAsZ9Ef0B\">pic.twitter.com\/1cAsZ9Ef0B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1905245243181584404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 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>Nunn scored 26 points with 5 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal, 1 block and 5 fouls drawn in the win against Maccabi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":435168,"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-435169","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\/2025\/03\/GnDI46oXIAAKA13.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435169","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=435169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435169"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=435169"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=435169"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=435169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}