{"id":496179,"date":"2026-05-09T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496179"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:14:32","slug":"euroleague-playoffs-game-4-mvp-jean-montero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-playoffs-game-4-mvp-jean-montero\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Playoffs Game 4 MVP: Jean Montero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a performance for the ages, in a playoff game for the ages,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/jean-montero\/010042\/\">Jean Montero<\/a>\u00a0of Valencia Basket earned Game 4 MVP honors, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/news\/playoffs-game-4-mvp-jean-montero-valencia-basket\/\">EuroLeague<\/a> playoff history along the way.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 4, with his team down 1-2 in the series, Montero posted a playoff-record PIR of 45 while leading Valencia to an 86-89 win over Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens. It is the highest PIR any player has recorded in a playoff game since the format was established in the 2004-05 season, and tied for the highest PIR in any EuroLeague postseason game this century. It is also the highest PIR any player has recorded this season.<\/p>\n<p>Montero shone with a career-high-tying 29 points, while also posting 7 rebounds and 7 assists. He made 5-of-6 two-pointers, 4-of-6 threes and was perfect on 7 trips to the free-throw line. Montero also had 3 steals and drew 8 fouls<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uzjS67LxEv\">pic.twitter.com\/uzjS67LxEv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/2053053866308956408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Game 4, with his team down 1-2 in the series, Montero posted a playoff-record PIR of 45 while leading Valencia to an 86-89 win over Panathinaikos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":496178,"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":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-496179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/f3e3ada3-8bab-4ed0-a902-68bfffd7c33f.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496179","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496179"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496179"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496179"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}