{"id":493760,"date":"2026-04-21T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493760"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:27:04","slug":"pedro-martinez-named-euroleague-coach-of-the-year-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/pedro-martinez-named-euroleague-coach-of-the-year-for-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Martinez named EuroLeague Coach of the Year for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1551\" data-end=\"1865\"><strong data-start=\"1551\" data-end=\"1569\">Pedro Martinez<\/strong> has been named the <strong data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1638\">2025-26 Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year<\/strong> after leading <strong data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1672\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1694\">25-13 record<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1724\">second-place finish<\/strong> in the EuroLeague regular season. The award is decided by votes from the league\u2019s fellow head coaches.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1867\" data-end=\"2252\">It is a historic achievement for Martinez, who becomes the <strong data-start=\"1926\" data-end=\"1950\">first Valencia coach<\/strong> to win the award and the <strong data-start=\"1976\" data-end=\"2005\">fourth Spanish-born coach<\/strong> to do so, following <strong data-start=\"2026\" data-end=\"2069\">Xavi Pascual, Pablo Laso and Chus Mateo<\/strong>. Valencia also led the league in scoring during the regular season at <strong data-start=\"2140\" data-end=\"2164\">90.9 points per game<\/strong> and secured home-court advantage in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2475\">Behind Martinez in the voting were <strong data-start=\"2289\" data-end=\"2307\">Tomas Masiulis<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"2311\" data-end=\"2330\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2332\" data-end=\"2354\">Georgios Bartzokas<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"2358\" data-end=\"2372\">Olympiacos<\/strong>, and reigning winner <strong data-start=\"2394\" data-end=\"2418\">Sarunas Jasikevicius<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"2422\" data-end=\"2436\">Fenerbahce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valencia Basket head coach won the Alexander Gomelskiy Trophy after a second-place regular-season finish and the league\u2019s top offense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493759,"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-493760","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\/04\/3e511c50-8553-483f-95a8-ff8bb09a7c26.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493760","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=493760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493760"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493760"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493760"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}