{"id":496090,"date":"2026-05-08T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496090"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:50:06","slug":"fenerbahce-survives-kaunas-drama-and-reaches-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahce-survives-kaunas-drama-and-reaches-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce survives Kaunas drama and reaches Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2346\"><strong data-start=\"2070\" data-end=\"2089\">Fenerbahce Beko<\/strong> became the third team to qualify for the <strong data-start=\"2131\" data-end=\"2164\">2025-26 EuroLeague Final Four<\/strong>, joining <strong data-start=\"2174\" data-end=\"2188\">Olympiacos<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2193\" data-end=\"2208\">Real Madrid<\/strong>. Sarunas Jasikevicius\u2019 team defeated <strong data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2267\">Zalgiris Kaunas<\/strong> 94-90 after overtime and will now face Olympiacos in the semifinals in Athens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2348\" data-end=\"2625\">The game was decided by the smallest details. Zalgiris led in the final seconds of regulation after <strong data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2469\">Sylvain Francisco<\/strong> made his free throws, but with just over one second left <strong data-start=\"2527\" data-end=\"2546\">Wade Baldwin IV<\/strong> converted a layup from Jasikevicius\u2019 final play, sending the game to overtime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2627\" data-end=\"2898\">Fenerbahce opened the extra period with more control and composure. In the final minute, with the Turkish side up 92-90, Francisco missed the go-ahead three with 27 seconds left; then <strong data-start=\"2811\" data-end=\"2834\">Talen Horton-Tucker<\/strong> hit both free throws with 24 seconds remaining to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2900\" data-end=\"3158\">Horton-Tucker finished with 21 points and 6 rebounds, while <strong data-start=\"2960\" data-end=\"2974\">Khem Birch<\/strong> delivered a huge double-double with 21 points and 13 rebounds. For Zalgiris, Francisco had 23 points and 11 assists, <strong data-start=\"3094\" data-end=\"3113\">Azuolas Tubelis<\/strong> added 16 and <strong data-start=\"3127\" data-end=\"3147\">Edgaras Ulanovas<\/strong> scored 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defending champions survived a brutal battle in Kaunas and closed the series 3-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":496089,"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-496090","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\/05\/HH0hVDNW0AYfPru.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496090","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=496090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496090"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496090"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496090"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}