{"id":494131,"date":"2026-04-24T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494131"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:16:53","slug":"all-euroleague-first-team-2025-26-vezenkov-leads-the-ideal-lineup-with-montero-and-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/all-euroleague-first-team-2025-26-vezenkov-leads-the-ideal-lineup-with-montero-and-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"All-EuroLeague First Team 2025-26: Vezenkov leads the ideal lineup with Montero and Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2711\" data-end=\"3171\"><strong data-start=\"2711\" data-end=\"2725\">EuroLeague<\/strong> has officially revealed its <strong data-start=\"2754\" data-end=\"2791\">2025-26 All-EuroLeague First Team<\/strong>, honoring the five players who best defined the regular season. According to the league\u2019s official announcement, the selected players are <strong data-start=\"2930\" data-end=\"2947\">Elijah Bryant<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"2951\" data-end=\"2970\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2972\" data-end=\"2993\">Sylvain Francisco<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"2997\" data-end=\"3016\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"3018\" data-end=\"3038\">Nikola Milutinov<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3043\" data-end=\"3061\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"3065\" data-end=\"3087\">Olympiacos Piraeus<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"3093\" data-end=\"3109\">Jean Montero<\/strong> of <strong data-start=\"3113\" data-end=\"3132\">Valencia Basket<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3173\" data-end=\"3590\">The lineup mixes proven stars with breakout names. Vezenkov delivered another elite offensive season for Olympiacos, while Milutinov anchored the paint with rebounding and efficiency. Montero continued his rapid rise after also winning the <strong data-start=\"3413\" data-end=\"3428\">Rising Star<\/strong> award, and both Francisco and Bryant were rewarded for outstanding seasons defined by consistency, creation and leadership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3592\" data-end=\"3962\">Under the official voting system, the team was selected through a combined vote by head coaches, team captains, media and fans. The strongest takeaway is clear: the <strong data-start=\"3757\" data-end=\"3794\">2025-26 All-EuroLeague First Team<\/strong> reflects both <strong data-start=\"3809\" data-end=\"3825\">Olympiacos\u2019s<\/strong> dominance and the emergence of a new generation led by <strong data-start=\"3881\" data-end=\"3897\">Jean Montero<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"3902\" data-end=\"3923\">Sylvain Francisco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroLeague has announced its best five of the season, featuring Sasha Vezenkov and Nikola Milutinov of Olympiacos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":494130,"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-494131","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\/7f16a10d-851e-471e-85d4-70f24366d527.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494131","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=494131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494131"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494131"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494131"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}