{"id":436699,"date":"2025-04-05T20:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436699"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:50:49","slug":"euroleague-round-33-mvp-kendrick-nunn-panathinaikos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-33-mvp-kendrick-nunn-panathinaikos\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Round 33 MVP: Kendrick Nunn, Panathinaikos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A brilliant performance in a direct battle for home-court advantage in the playoffs has earned Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens guard Kendrick Nunn<\/a>\u00a0his third MVP of the Round honor this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Panathinaikos beat AS Monaco 76-88 and Nunn starred with 37 points, making 9-of-12 two-pointers and 5-of-5 threes. Nunn also made all 4 free throws, had 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal while drawing 6 fouls. The Greens\u2019 guard accumulated 43 PIR, the highest of his career and tied for the second highest in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague this season. This is the fourth time in his career that Nunn has been the MVP of the Round, and three of those have come over the last eight rounds.<\/p>\n

Behind Nunn sit two players with 32 PIR. In a 92-100 win over ALBA Berlin, Olympiacos Piraeus guard\u00a0Nigel Williams-Goss<\/a>\u00a0had 22 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block. Meanwhile,\u00a0Carsen Edwards<\/a>\u00a0of FC Bayern Munich netted 33 points on 9-of-18 three-point shooting, along with 5 assists and 4 rebounds, in a 93-90 loss at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

Alec Peters<\/a>\u00a0netted 33 points on 8-for-9 three-point shooting, finishing the game with a PIR of 30. Rounding out the list of Round 33 top performers is\u00a0Mario Hezonja<\/a>\u00a0of Real Madrid, who had a 29 PIR in a 105-104 win over Paris Basketball, scoring a season-high 26 points and also collecting 3 rebounds and 2 steals.<\/p>\n

Individual highs: Kendrick Nunn, Panathinaikos, 37 points<\/h3>\n

Nunn led all scorers with 37 points. He increased his EuroLeague-best average to 20.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

FC Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0Joel Parra<\/a>\u00a0had 12 rebounds, more than any other player in this round.\u00a0Joel Bolomboy<\/a>\u00a0of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade leads the league in this category, averaging 8.3 rebounds per night.<\/p>\n

Three players had 10 assists in Round 33:\u00a0TJ Shorts<\/a>\u00a0of Paris Basketball and ALBA’s duo of\u00a0Martin Hermannsson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Will McDowell-White<\/a>. Shorts is the league leader in assists with 7.5 per game.<\/p>\n

Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0Jabari Parker<\/a>\u00a0and Parra each had 3 steals, the most in Round 33. Bayern\u2019s\u00a0Nick Weiler-Babb<\/a>\u00a0remains atop the steals charts with 1.6 per contest.<\/p>\n

Khalifa Diop<\/a>\u00a0of Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and\u00a0Vincent Poirier<\/a>\u00a0of Anadolu Efes Istanbul each had 3 blocks in this round. Real Madrid center\u00a0Walter Tavares<\/a>\u00a0is the EuroLeague\u2019s top shot-blocker with 1.4 rejections per game.<\/p>\n

There were three double-doubles in Round 33: Shorts (24 points, 10 assists), his Paris teammate\u00a0Tyson Ward<\/a>\u00a0(18 points, 10 rebounds), and Parra (15 points, 12 rebounds).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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37 PTS, 5 AST and 43 PIR… @nunnbetter_<\/a> was COOKING vs Monaco \u2668\ufe0f@PaniniAmerica<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xlWeih1N8y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) April 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n