{"id":462258,"date":"2025-09-30T20:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=462258"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:05:19","slug":"euroleague-hapoel-tel-aviv-opens-strong-with-103-87-win-over-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-hapoel-tel-aviv-opens-strong-with-103-87-win-over-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague: Hapoel Tel Aviv Opens Strong with 103-87 Win Over Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hapoel Tel Aviv started its EuroLeague campaign in style, breaking the 100-point mark in a 103-87 victory over Barcelona at Arena 8888 in Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>Itoudis\u2019 squad built a double-digit lead early in the second half and managed to keep control until the final buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli side showcased remarkable shooting efficiency, finishing at 61% on two-pointers, 54% from beyond the arc, and 93% at the free-throw line. Vasilije Micic led the way with 18 points on 4-of-7 from three, while Anthony Blakeney was the top scorer with 20 points (3-of-4 from deep, 11-of-11 FT). Daniel Oturu added 18 points on an impressive 9-of-10 shooting inside, and Elijah Bryant contributed 12 points along with 8 assists.<\/p>\n<p>For Barcelona, Will Clyburn stood out with 23 points (8-of-11 FG) and 7 rebounds, but his effort wasn\u2019t enough. Both Kevin Punter and Jan Vesely added 13 points apiece in the losing effort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First W for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HapoelTLVBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HapoelTLVBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EveryGameMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EveryGameMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QP2mNyd2LK\">pic.twitter.com\/QP2mNyd2LK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/1973085082563784796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 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>Itoudis\u2019 squad built a double-digit lead early in the second half and managed to keep control until the final buzzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":462257,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-462258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/G2HOaeYXwAAFOCt.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462258","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=462258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462258"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=462258"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=462258"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=462258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}