{"id":494260,"date":"2026-04-25T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494260"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:52:47","slug":"tj-shorts-named-euroleague-play-in-mvp-after-leading-panathinaikos-to-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tj-shorts-named-euroleague-play-in-mvp-after-leading-panathinaikos-to-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Shorts named EuroLeague Play-In MVP after leading Panathinaikos to the playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2442\" data-end=\"2679\"><strong data-start=\"2442\" data-end=\"2455\">TJ Shorts<\/strong> has been named the <strong data-start=\"2475\" data-end=\"2509\">2025-26 EuroLeague Play-In MVP<\/strong>. The award recognizes the <strong data-start=\"2536\" data-end=\"2566\">Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens<\/strong> point guard for his key role in the win over <strong data-start=\"2612\" data-end=\"2625\">AS Monaco<\/strong>, a result that sent the Greek side into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2681\" data-end=\"3031\">In the official <strong data-start=\"2697\" data-end=\"2722\">Euroleague Basketball<\/strong> press release, Shorts was identified as the player with the highest <strong data-start=\"2791\" data-end=\"2798\">PIR<\/strong> among those whose teams advanced to the postseason. Against Monaco, he posted <strong data-start=\"2877\" data-end=\"2890\">21 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2892\" data-end=\"2906\">3 rebounds<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2908\" data-end=\"2921\">2 assists<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2923\" data-end=\"2934\">1 steal<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2936\" data-end=\"2953\">3 fouls drawn<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2958\" data-end=\"2976\">zero turnovers<\/strong>, finishing with a <strong data-start=\"2995\" data-end=\"3005\">24 PIR<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"3013\" data-end=\"3022\">87-79<\/strong> victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3033\" data-end=\"3335\">It is the <strong data-start=\"3043\" data-end=\"3080\">second straight Play-In MVP award<\/strong> for Shorts. Last season, he earned the same recognition after leading <strong data-start=\"3151\" data-end=\"3171\">Paris Basketball<\/strong> into the playoffs. After the game, Shorts said it was a huge performance for both himself and the team, adding that everything finally clicked at the right moment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3337\" data-end=\"3707\">The press release also highlighted the other top individual marks from the play-in round: <strong data-start=\"3427\" data-end=\"3441\">Mike James<\/strong> scored <strong data-start=\"3449\" data-end=\"3462\">25 points<\/strong> against Panathinaikos, <strong data-start=\"3486\" data-end=\"3507\">Jaron Blossomgame<\/strong> grabbed <strong data-start=\"3516\" data-end=\"3531\">10 rebounds<\/strong> against Barcelona, and James also handed out <strong data-start=\"3577\" data-end=\"3591\">10 assists<\/strong>. But the headline award belongs to <strong data-start=\"3627\" data-end=\"3640\">TJ Shorts<\/strong>, the player who delivered for Panathinaikos when it mattered most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens guard won the Play-In MVP award after his decisive performance against AS Monaco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":494259,"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-494260","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\/unnamed.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494260","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=494260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494260"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494260"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494260"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}