{"id":480571,"date":"2026-01-24T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480571"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:34:07","slug":"euroleague-round-24-mvp-kevin-punter-powers-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-24-mvp-kevin-punter-powers-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Round 24 MVP: Kevin Punter powers Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1818\"><strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1596\">Punter<\/strong> led Barcelona to a 98-91 win in Villeurbanne with 31 points on elite efficiency: 7-of-8 twos, 4-of-6 threes and 5-of-7 at the line.<br data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1731\" \/>He added 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and drew 5 fouls, finishing with a <strong data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1817\">34 PIR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1820\" data-end=\"2032\">It\u2019s the 32-year-old\u2019s fifth MVP of the Round award in his career and the second time this season.<br data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"1921\" \/>The article also recalls his <strong data-start=\"1950\" data-end=\"1960\">40 PIR<\/strong> in Round 17, when Barcelona beat Baskonia in a triple-overtime classic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2034\" data-end=\"2388\">Just behind him, <strong data-start=\"2051\" data-end=\"2069\">Filip Petrusev<\/strong> (Dubai Basketball) posted a <strong data-start=\"2098\" data-end=\"2108\">33 PIR<\/strong> in a 99-79 road win at Paris, while <strong data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2159\">Momo Diouf<\/strong> (Virtus) had <strong data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2183\">31 PIR<\/strong> in a loss to Crvena Zvezda.<br data-start=\"2211\" data-end=\"2214\" \/>The top list also includes <strong data-start=\"2241\" data-end=\"2259\">Shavon Shields<\/strong> (29 PIR), plus <strong data-start=\"2275\" data-end=\"2295\">Facundo Campazzo<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2300\" data-end=\"2318\">Toko Shengelia<\/strong> (28 PIR), alongside the round\u2019s individual highs cited in the report.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2390\" data-end=\"2447\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Punter takes Round 24 MVP with a 34 PIR, the best index rating of the round and his second-best ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":480570,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/089d57ce-a730-478f-97c6-96632a49267e.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480571","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480571"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480571"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480571"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}