{"id":475033,"date":"2025-12-19T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475033"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:05:25","slug":"efes-76-80-dubai-wright-delivers-late-as-dubai-earns-second-road-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/efes-76-80-dubai-wright-delivers-late-as-dubai-earns-second-road-win-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Efes 76-80 Dubai: Wright delivers late as Dubai earns second road win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1790\"><strong data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1544\">Dubai Basketball<\/strong> held on to beat <strong data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1586\">Anadolu Efes Istanbul<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1596\">80-76<\/strong>, led by <strong data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1638\">Mfiondu Kabengele\u2019s 20 points<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1643\" data-end=\"1667\">McKinley Wright\u2019s 17<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1671\" \/>Efes had three players tied as top scorers: <strong data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1772\">Nick Weiler-Babb, Rolands Smits and Rodrigue Beaubois<\/strong> with <strong data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1789\">12 each<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1792\" data-end=\"2048\">Dubai secured its <strong data-start=\"1810\" data-end=\"1829\">second road win<\/strong> of the season and improved to <strong data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1867\">8-9<\/strong> in its debut EuroLeague campaign, while Efes fell to <strong data-start=\"1921\" data-end=\"1929\">6-11<\/strong>, losing at home for the <strong data-start=\"1954\" data-end=\"1976\">sixth time in nine<\/strong> games. It was also <strong data-start=\"1996\" data-end=\"2028\">Pablo Laso\u2019s first home game<\/strong> as Efes head coach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2372\">Dubai trailed by <strong data-start=\"2067\" data-end=\"2073\">10<\/strong> in the third quarter and didn\u2019t hit a single three-pointer until the fourth, when <strong data-start=\"2156\" data-end=\"2173\">Davis Bertans<\/strong> knocked down <strong data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2210\">three early triples<\/strong> to swing the lead. From there, Wright took over, scoring <strong data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2313\">10 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter<\/strong> and making the clutch baskets as it went down to the wire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2374\" data-end=\"2596\">Wright also handed out a <strong data-start=\"2399\" data-end=\"2436\">EuroLeague season-high 15 assists<\/strong>, while Kabengele added <strong data-start=\"2460\" data-end=\"2478\">seven rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2483\" data-end=\"2501\">Filip Petrusev<\/strong> chipped in <strong data-start=\"2513\" data-end=\"2526\">14 points<\/strong>. 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