{"id":493886,"date":"2026-04-22T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493886"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:20:59","slug":"jean-montero-wins-euroleague-rising-star-trophy-makes-history-after-eurocup-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jean-montero-wins-euroleague-rising-star-trophy-makes-history-after-eurocup-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Montero wins EuroLeague Rising Star Trophy, makes history after EuroCup honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2506\" data-end=\"2823\"><strong data-start=\"2506\" data-end=\"2522\">Jean Montero<\/strong> has been named the <strong data-start=\"2542\" data-end=\"2583\">2025-26 EuroLeague Rising Star Trophy<\/strong> winner. In his first EuroLeague season, the <strong data-start=\"2628\" data-end=\"2647\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> guard claimed the award and became the <strong data-start=\"2687\" data-end=\"2766\">first player ever to win both the EuroLeague and EuroCup Rising Star honors<\/strong> during his career.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2825\" data-end=\"3214\">The award, voted on by EuroLeague head coaches and reserved for players who were under 22 on July 1 of the previous summer, reflects Montero\u2019s outstanding impact this season. The Dominican guard was the top Rising Star-eligible player in scoring, assists and PIR, while helping Valencia return to the EuroLeague playoffs for the first time since 2011.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3216\" data-end=\"3558\">In the final voting, <strong data-start=\"3237\" data-end=\"3253\">Saliou Niang<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"3257\" data-end=\"3275\">Virtus Bologna<\/strong> finished second, followed by <strong data-start=\"3305\" data-end=\"3325\">Sergio De Larrea<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3330\" data-end=\"3343\">Momo Faye<\/strong>. One of Montero\u2019s signature performances came in Round 27, when he earned MVP honors with <strong data-start=\"3434\" data-end=\"3471\">29 points, 8 assists and a 38 PIR<\/strong> in an overtime road win against Hapoel Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Valencia Basket guard has been named the 2025-26 EuroLeague Rising Star, with Virtus Bologna\u2019s Saliou Niang finishing second in the voting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493885,"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-493886","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\/91a98f48-f275-48ec-b12a-1f5c89b5aa74.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493886","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=493886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493886"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493886"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493886"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}