{"id":494040,"date":"2026-04-23T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494040"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:12:06","slug":"alpha-diallo-wins-euroleague-best-defender-award-as-monacos-defensive-anchor-is-rewarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/alpha-diallo-wins-euroleague-best-defender-award-as-monacos-defensive-anchor-is-rewarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Diallo wins EuroLeague Best Defender award as Monaco\u2019s defensive anchor is rewarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2332\" data-end=\"2641\">As officially announced by <strong data-start=\"2359\" data-end=\"2373\">EuroLeague<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2375\" data-end=\"2391\">Alpha Diallo<\/strong> has won the <strong data-start=\"2404\" data-end=\"2436\">2025-26 Best Defender Trophy<\/strong>, the award voted on by the league\u2019s head coaches. For the <strong data-start=\"2495\" data-end=\"2508\">AS Monaco<\/strong> forward, it is his first time winning the honor after finishing third in last season\u2019s voting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2643\" data-end=\"3054\">The award highlights Diallo\u2019s all-court defensive value. EuroLeague emphasized his ability to switch across positions, combine speed, strength and instincts, and serve as the foundation of Monaco\u2019s aggressive defensive schemes. He finished the regular season with <strong data-start=\"2907\" data-end=\"2931\">1.34 steals per game<\/strong>, the second-best mark in the league, while starting all <strong data-start=\"2988\" data-end=\"3015\">38 regular-season games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3056\" data-end=\"3361\">Beyond defense, Diallo also averaged <strong data-start=\"3093\" data-end=\"3108\">11.9 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3110\" data-end=\"3126\">4.4 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3131\" data-end=\"3145\">0.5 blocks<\/strong>, underlining his two-way importance throughout the season. He finished ahead of <strong data-start=\"3226\" data-end=\"3242\">Nicol\u00f2 Melli<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3244\" data-end=\"3261\">Thomas Walkup<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3263\" data-end=\"3281\">Walter Tavares<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3286\" data-end=\"3302\">Jerian Grant<\/strong> in the final voting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AS Monaco forward has been named the 2025-26 EuroLeague Best Defender after a dominant all-around season on the defensive end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":494039,"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-494040","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\/fbdbd20a-aa25-4021-9e15-1b392dac1706.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494040","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=494040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494040"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494040"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494040"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}