{"id":492082,"date":"2026-04-09T19:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492082"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:33:37","slug":"eurocup-semifinals-mvp-devon-dotson-besiktas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/eurocup-semifinals-mvp-devon-dotson-besiktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurocup Semifinals MVP: Devon Dotson, Besiktas"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep\">\n<div class=\"container_container__8OqXW container__small__F0Wem\">\n<p class=\"article-summary_articleSummary__ACuY_\">Besiktas GAIN Istanbul guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/en\/eurocup\/players\/devon-dotson\/013285\/\">Devon Dotson<\/a>\u00a0came up big when it counted most, helping his team sweep a best-of-three series against a fellow Turkish side Bahcesehir College Istanbul and earning MVP of the BKT EuroCup Semifinals honors in the process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"spaces_elem__IR3ep container_container__8OqXW side-gaps_sideGaps__n4UTm\">\n<div class=\"text-secondary text-base font-normal rich-text_richtext__1JT_V\">\n<p>Dotson had two of his five best performances of the season in the two semifinal victories, accumulating a 21 PIR in each of them. He finished with the highest PIR of any player in either semifinal series.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in his second season in the competition, Dotson finished the series averaging 16.0 points on 57.1% three-point shooting, along with 5.0 assists and 4.5 rebounds, while playing just 22 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 1, Dotson had 16 points on 4-of-5 on two-pointers and 2-of-4 on threes, along with 6 assists and 4 rebounds in a 91-72 win. He followed that up with 16 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 block in Game 2. Dotson made 2-of-6 twos, 2-of-3 three-pointers and 6-of-8 free throws as Besiktas pulled out a 72-82 road win to clinch the series and reach the club\u2019s first EuroCup Finals appearance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old guard led all semifinalists in average PIR in helping his team make history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":492081,"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],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-492082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurocup","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/HFdMYxkXgAAhk0A.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492082","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=492082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492082"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492082"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492082"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}