{"id":464828,"date":"2025-10-16T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464828"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:21:22","slug":"euroleague-round-4-mvp-jordan-nwora-crvena-zvezda-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-4-mvp-jordan-nwora-crvena-zvezda-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Round 4 MVP: Jordan Nwora, Crvena Zvezda Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep container_container__8OqXW side-gaps_sideGaps__n4UTm\">\n<div class=\"rich-text_richtext__1JT_V\">\n<p>An all-around performance \u2014 the best of his EuroLeague career \u2014 has seen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/jordan-nwora\/013363\/\">Jordan Nwora<\/a>\u00a0of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade honored as the MVP for Round 4.<\/p>\n<p>Nwora led Zvezda to an 88-79 win over previously unbeaten Zalgiris Kaunas with 24 points, shooting 7-of-12 on two-pointers, 1-of-4 from three, and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line. He also pulled down 7 rebounds, recorded a career-high 5 steals, dished 3 assists, and blocked a personal-best 2 shots. It all added up to a PIR of 34 \u2013 the highest of his career and the top performance index rating in this round.<\/p>\n<p>The second-highest PIR of the round, 33, belonged to Panathinaikos Athens center\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/richaun-holmes\/014011\/\">Richaun Holmes<\/a>. In a 91-85 win over LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, Holmes posted 24 points on 11-of-12 two-point shooting, 10 rebounds, and 1 block.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/nadir-hifi\/012640\/\">Nadir Hifi<\/a>\u00a0of Paris Basketball followed with a PIR of 32 in his team\u2019s 105-87 win over Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. Hifi\u2019s 32 PIR and 29 points were both career highs. He also tallied 5 assists and 4 steals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/mfiondu-kabengele\/012796\/\">Mfiondu Kabengele<\/a>\u00a0of Dubai Basketball registered a 31 PIR in the newcomer\u2019s resounding 69-93 road win at the home of the defending champs, Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul. Kabengele contributed 26 points and 7 rebounds in the victory. Rounding out the list of this round\u2019s top performers were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/kendrick-nunn\/012774\/\">Kendrick Nunn<\/a>\u00a0of Panathinaikos and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/vasilije-micic\/002580\/\">Vasilije Micic<\/a>\u00a0of Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv. Nunn shined with 26 points, 6 assists, and 5 rebounds in the Greens\u2019 win over ASVEL, while Micic tallied 24 points, 6 assists, and 2 steals in Hapoel\u2019s 93-100 triumph at Valencia Basket.<\/p>\n<h3>Individual highs: Nadir Hifi, Paris, 29 points<\/h3>\n<p>Nadir Hifi led all scorers in Round 4 with 29 points. He is also the league\u2019s top scorer after four rounds, averaging 23.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/devin-booker\/007056\/\">Devin Booker<\/a>\u00a0of EA7 Emporio Armani Milan and Paris forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/derek-willis\/009664\/\">Derek Willis<\/a>\u00a0each pulled down a round-high 12 rebounds.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sasha-vezenkov\/003469\/\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/a>\u00a0of Olympiacos Piraeus remains the league&#8217;s top rebounder with an average of 10.0 boards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Three players shared the round\u2019s high of 8 assists:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/chris-jones\/010568\/\">Chris Jones<\/a>\u00a0of Hapoel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/tornike-shengelia\/001133\/\">Toko Shengelia<\/a>\u00a0of FC Barcelona, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/darius-thompson\/011078\/\">Darius Thompson<\/a>\u00a0of Valencia. The overall assists leaders are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/wade-baldwin-iv\/009863\/\">Wade Baldwin<\/a>\u00a0of Fenerbahce and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sylvain-francisco\/007975\/\">Sylvain Francisco<\/a>\u00a0of Zalgiris, each averaging 6.8 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Round 4 MVP Nwora led all players with 5 steals. Hifi remains the season leader with 3.3 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve players had 2 blocks in Round 4. One of them,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/walter-tavares\/005791\/\">Walter Tavares<\/a>\u00a0of Real Madrid, is the league leader with 1.8 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>Two players recorded double-doubles in Round 4: Holmes with 24 points and 10 rebounds, and Booker with 11 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep\">\n<div class=\"container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem\">\n<div class=\"social-button_wrap__EACmS\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Nwora is the EuroLeague Round 4 MVP: he led Crvena Zvezda to an 88-79 win against Zalgiris Kaunas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":464827,"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":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/4c2c05a6-958f-4036-8bc3-2dfb6f29519b.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464828","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464828"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464828"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464828"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}