{"id":498380,"date":"2026-05-25T21:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498380"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:22:47","slug":"rytas-vilnius-part-ways-with-zibenas-after-shocking-playoff-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rytas-vilnius-part-ways-with-zibenas-after-shocking-playoff-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rytas Vilnius part ways with Zibenas after shocking playoff collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rytas Vilnius have officially parted ways with head coach Giedrius Zibenas following the team\u2019s unexpected elimination in the Lithuanian League quarterfinals. The reigning FIBA Basketball Champions League winners were swept 2-0 by Juventus Utena, including a 101-95 home loss in Game 2. It marked the club\u2019s first failure to reach the LKL semifinals since 1997.<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointing ending, Zibenas leaves after one of the most successful stretches in Rytas history. During his tenure, the club won its first-ever Basketball Champions League title and captured two Lithuanian league championships in 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Quarterfinal exit against Juventus Utena ends a successful era for the Lithuanian club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":498379,"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":[60],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lituania","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Rytas-Vilnius-logo.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498380","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498380"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498380"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498380"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}