{"id":476622,"date":"2025-12-31T08:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476622"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:38:43","slug":"kevin-punter-powers-his-way-to-euroleague-mvp-of-december-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kevin-punter-powers-his-way-to-euroleague-mvp-of-december-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Punter powers his way to EuroLeague MVP of December honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/kevin-punter\/009862\/\">Kevin Punter<\/a>\u2019s spectacular scoring and clutch play have earned him the Euroleague Basketball MVP of the Month for December presented by Motorola. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/teams\/fc-barcelona\/bar\/\">FC Barcelona<\/a>\u00a0guard was the catalyst for his team\u2019s 4-1 record during the month, combining efficiency, leadership, and one unforgettable performance.<\/p>\n<p>Punter led all EuroLeague players in December with 24.4 points per game, shooting 55.1% on two-pointers, 46.9% from three-point range, and 92.0% at the foul line. He averaged 3.0 triples made, 3.4 assists, and 1.8 steals per game while ranking fifth in PIR (23.0) and fifth in average plus\/minus (+9.8). Logging more than 32 minutes per contest, he was one of just seven players to average at least 30 minutes for the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/euroleague\/news\/kevin-punter-powers-his-way-to-euroleague-mvp-of-december-honors\/\">More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a month \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/joLOUfCs3y\">pic.twitter.com\/joLOUfCs3y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/2006005523880001685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 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>This is Punter\u2019s second MVP of the Month award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":476621,"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-476622","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\/G9bA2f2WEAA8BWT.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476622","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=476622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476622"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476622"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476622"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}