{"id":458134,"date":"2025-09-02T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458134"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:46:27","slug":"eurobasket-2025-italy-beats-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurobasket-2025-italy-beats-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurobasket 2025: Italy beats Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy edges past Spain in a thrilling finish, securing their third consecutive victory at <strong>EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>. The Azzurri rallied back from a <strong>13-0 deficit<\/strong> at the start of the game to claim a <strong>67-63<\/strong> win.<\/p>\n<p>With two minutes remaining, <strong>Santi Aldama<\/strong> drained a three-pointer to tie the game at <strong>62-62<\/strong>, but <strong>Italy<\/strong> held their composure at the free-throw line to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saliou Niang<\/strong> suffered an ankle injury after an impressive performance of <strong>10 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 blocks in 15 minutes<\/strong>. <strong>Khadim Diouf<\/strong> finished with <strong>14 points and 8 rebounds<\/strong>, while <strong>Ricci<\/strong> added <strong>11 points and 5 boards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>Spain<\/strong>, strong efforts from <strong>De Larrea<\/strong> (<strong>15 points, 7 rebounds<\/strong>) and <strong>Aldama<\/strong> (<strong>19 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists<\/strong>) weren\u2019t enough to avoid defeat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The 58th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, Saliou Niang.<\/p>\n<p>Already got a double-double in 15 minutes.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MakeYourMark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MakeYourMark<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S1khKJDMRY\">pic.twitter.com\/S1khKJDMRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1962970659534844099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 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>The Azzurri rallied back from a 13-0 deficit at the start of the game to claim a 67-63 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":458127,"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":[98,131],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/saliou-niang-photo-FIBA-1-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458134","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=458134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458134"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458134"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458134"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}