{"id":476981,"date":"2026-01-03T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476981"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:24:14","slug":"eurocup-round-12-co-mvps-fatts-russell-devante-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurocup-round-12-co-mvps-fatts-russell-devante-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurocup Round 12 co-MVPs: Fatts Russell, DeVante\u2019 Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thrilling race for Round 12 MVP honors ended with two players sharing the title as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/eurocup\/players\/daron-russell\/013943\/\">Fatts Russell<\/a>\u00a0of U-BT Cluj-Napoca and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/eurocup\/players\/devante-jones\/013260\/\">DeVante\u2019 Jones<\/a>\u00a0of Dolomiti Energia Trento were named co-MVPs of the round, each posting a PIR of 37.<\/p>\n<p>Russell led Cluj to a narrow 94-92 home victory over Slask Wroclaw, finishing with 30 points on 7-of-11 two-pointers, 2-of-7 three-pointers, and 10-of-15 free throws. He also contributed 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and drew 11 fouls. Meanwhile, Jones was dominant in Trento\u2019s 85-73 home win over the London Lions, scoring 33 points on 8-of-9 two-pointers, 2-of-4 three-pointers, and 11-of-12 free throws. He also grabbed 3 rebounds, dished out 2 assists and drew 9 fouls, earning a PIR of 37.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2728 They shined and made the difference!<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f Round 12 MVPs:<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\udc03\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27 \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc25 &amp; \ud835\udc03\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2f\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc09\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9tATSAKewQ\">pic.twitter.com\/9tATSAKewQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BKT EuroCup (@EuroCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroCup\/status\/2007436718090117389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let\u2019s take a closer look at Devante Jones\u2019 performance against London Lions \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JlfORrGB4q\">pic.twitter.com\/JlfORrGB4q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BKT EuroCup (@EuroCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroCup\/status\/2006323124275655014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This pace? A Daron Russell masterpiece \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>30 PTS | 7 REB | 7 AST | 37 PIR \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UBTCluj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UBTCluj<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadToGreatness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoadToGreatness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVyl1MT3Co\">pic.twitter.com\/fVyl1MT3Co<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BKT EuroCup (@EuroCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroCup\/status\/2006337841983262894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 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>Jones ranks third in Eurocup in points and P.I.R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":476982,"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":[197],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/G9vZDW6WIAA69Ye.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476981","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=476981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476981"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476981"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476981"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}