{"id":475120,"date":"2025-12-20T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475120"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:54:04","slug":"euroleague-kevin-punter-nominated-mvp-of-the-round-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-kevin-punter-nominated-mvp-of-the-round-17\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague, Kevin Punter nominated MVP of the round 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An epic performance on a record-breaking night saw FC Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/kevin-punter\/009862\/\">Kevin Punter<\/a>\u00a0post a PIR of 40, snatching MVP of the Round honors for the first time since joining the club and the fourth time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>On a night when Barcelona set a new EuroLeague scoring record in a 134-124 triple-overtime win over Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, Punter netted 43 points, becoming just the ninth player this century to score more than 40 points in a EuroLeague game. Logging 44 minutes and 59 seconds, he set a club record by making 12 two-point field goals on 19 attempts. He also went 4-of-7 from three-point range and a perfect 7-of-7 from the free-throw line, while adding 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Two players finished Round 17 with a PIR of 35: Baskonia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/markus-howard\/011948\/\">Markus Howard<\/a>\u00a0and Dubai Basketball\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/mckinley-wright-iv\/012606\/\">McKinley Wright<\/a>. Howard shined with 33 points on 6-of-8 shooting from two-point range and 6-of-7 from beyond the arc, along with 6 assists, in Baskonia\u2019s loss to Barcelona. Wright, meanwhile, recorded 17 points, 15 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals in Dubai\u2019s come-from-behind 76-80 road win over Anadolu Efes Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The next-best PIR of the round, 32, belonged to Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/tomas-satoransky\/002939\/\">Tomas Satoransky<\/a>, who finished the triple-overtime thriller with 23 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists. Rounding out the top performers is Olympiacos Piraeus forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/players\/sasha-vezenkov\/003469\/\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/a>, who posted a PIR of 28 behind 17 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a 107-84 win over LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An epic performance on a record-breaking night saw FC Barcelona\u2019s\u00a0Kevin Punter\u00a0post a PIR of 40, snatching MVP of the Round honors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":475119,"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-475120","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\/12\/2d7597e8-2c16-4103-ba44-7c50d3127eee.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475120","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475120"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475120"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475120"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}