{"id":497856,"date":"2026-05-22T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497856"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:10:18","slug":"valencia-real-madrid-spanish-derby-in-athens-as-scariolo-faces-frontcourt-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/valencia-real-madrid-spanish-derby-in-athens-as-scariolo-faces-frontcourt-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia-Real Madrid, Spanish derby in Athens as Scariolo faces frontcourt emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1303\"><strong data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1208\">Valencia Basket<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1228\">Real Madrid<\/strong> meet at 20:00 CET in the second EuroLeague Final Four semifinal in Athens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1488\">The Spanish derby comes with a balanced EuroLeague background: <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1397\">1-1 in the regular season<\/strong>, with both teams winning at home, while Real Madrid leads <strong data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1478\">2-0 in Liga Endesa<\/strong> meetings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1756\"><strong data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1519\">Pedro Martinez\u2019s Valencia<\/strong> gets Jean Montero and Sako back after the virus that kept them out in domestic action, but will be without Lopez-Arostegui and Puerto. The taronja reach the first Final Four in club history after eliminating Panathinaikos from 0-2 down.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"2016\">The situation is more complicated for <strong data-start=\"1796\" data-end=\"1829\">Sergio Scariolo\u2019s Real Madrid<\/strong>, missing Tavares with a knee issue and Alex Len with plantar fasciitis, while Garuba is not fully fit. The blancos are chasing another European final but must reinvent themselves inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valencia Basket and Real Madrid meet at 20:00 CET in the second EuroLeague Final Four semifinal in Athens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":497834,"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-497856","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\/Valencia-Real-Madrid.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497856","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=497856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497856"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497856"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497856"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}