{"id":557092,"date":"2026-10-28T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=557092"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:29:15","slug":"olympiacos-wins-in-istanbul-81-73-over-besiktas-despite-key-absences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-wins-in-istanbul-81-73-over-besiktas-despite-key-absences\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos wins in Istanbul: 81-73 over Besiktas despite key absences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olympiacos defeated Besiktas 81-73 to improve to 6-2 in EuroLeague, earning its fifth win in six road games. Donta Hall and Tyrique Jones delivered major contributions in Nikola Milutinov\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also missing Jean Montero, Tyler Dorsey and Evan Fournier, Olympiacos opened the game with a 15-0 run and then held off several Besiktas comeback attempts. The decisive stretch came late in the fourth quarter, when the defending champions used a 12-0 run to take control for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sasha Vezenkov led Olympiacos with 16 points. Hall had 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting and 5 rebounds in 20 minutes, while Jones added 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting and 4 rebounds, also in 20 minutes. Tyson Ward contributed 13 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. For Besiktas, now 3-5, Jaylen Nowell scored 15 points with 3 assists, while David DeJulius had 12 points and drew 7 fouls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Reds bounce back with a crucial road win to climb the standings!<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/EveryGameMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EveryGameMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qqzgK7qvCu\">pic.twitter.com\/qqzgK7qvCu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/2115525953019695455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympiacos beats Besiktas 81-73 to improve to 6-2, with Donta Hall and Tyrique Jones stepping up in Nikola Milutinov\u2019s absence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":557040,"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-557092","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\/10\/HVvbo0XWAAAXxLe-1.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557092","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=557092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557093,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557092\/revisions\/557093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557092"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=557092"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=557092"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=557092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}