{"id":498226,"date":"2026-05-24T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498226"},"modified":"2026-05-24T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:16:15","slug":"olympiacos-breaks-the-spell-athens-turns-red-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-breaks-the-spell-athens-turns-red-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos breaks the spell: Athens turns red and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1555\"><strong data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1317\">Olympiacos<\/strong> are European champions after defeating <strong data-start=\"1357\" data-end=\"1372\">Real Madrid<\/strong> 92-85 in a tense final decided in the closing possessions.<br data-start=\"1431\" data-end=\"1434\" \/>Fournier led the winners with 20 points, while Hezonja scored 19 for a Real Madrid side that fought until the final shot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1719\">Real Madrid opened at full speed, building an early double-digit lead behind Lyles and Abalde, but Olympiacos stayed alive through Vezenkov, Walkup and Milutinov.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1879\">In the second quarter, Fournier shifted the momentum from long range and the Greek side moved in front before halftime, with Madrid still answering every run.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"2075\">The second half became a real battle: Hezonja and Feliz pushed the blancos back ahead, but Olympiacos held firm and entered the final minutes with Vezenkov, Peters and Fournier making key plays.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2077\" data-end=\"2337\">At 80-80, Jones, Walkup and Fournier produced the decisive break. Real Madrid tried one last comeback, but Feliz\u2019s attempt missed and Peters sealed it from the line: Olympiacos claimed the crown and avenged the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2339\" data-end=\"2471\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympiacos are European champions after defeating Real Madrid 92-85 in a tense final decided in the closing possessions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498225,"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-498226","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\/Sportando-1.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498226","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=498226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498226"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498226"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498226"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}