{"id":459278,"date":"2025-09-09T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=459278"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:20:26","slug":"eurobasket-2025-giannis-leads-greece-past-lithuania-to-reach-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurobasket-2025-giannis-leads-greece-past-lithuania-to-reach-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025: Giannis Leads Greece Past Lithuania to Reach Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greece<\/strong>, led by <strong>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/strong>, defeated <strong>Lithuania<\/strong> in the EuroBasket quarterfinals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-eurobasket-2025\/games\/123029-LTU-GRE\"><strong>87-76<\/strong><\/a> to secure a spot in the semifinals, where they will face <a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sengun-in-triple-double-mode-turkiye-sweeps-past-poland-91-77-and-advances-to-the-semifinals\/\"><strong>Turkey<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spanoulis\u2019 squad controlled most of the game, building a 16-point lead early in the final quarter. Lithuania attempted a late comeback, cutting the deficit to 70-78, but Greece held firm to close out the win.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo shined once again with 29 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 steals, while sharpshooter Toliopoulos added 17 points in just 16 minutes, shooting 6-for-8 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>For Lithuania, Jonas Valanciunas posted a dominant 24-point, 15-rebound double-double, and Arnas Velicka contributed 12 points and 7 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Greece will face Turkey in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":459279,"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":[377],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-459278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/ahrbgd04t43jrnj7mc3i.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459278","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=459278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459278"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=459278"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=459278"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=459278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}