{"id":557095,"date":"2026-10-28T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=557095"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:32:15","slug":"hapoel-crushes-efes-118-88-behind-blakeneys-35-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hapoel-crushes-efes-118-88-behind-blakeneys-35-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapoel crushes Efes 118-88 behind Blakeney\u2019s 35 points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hapoel Tel Aviv produced a statement performance by routing Anadolu Efes 118-88 to improve to 6-2 with a fourth straight EuroLeague win. Antonio Blakeney stole the show with 35 points in just 22 minutes, setting a new club record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hapoel took control early, leading 63-41 at halftime before extending the margin to 90-59 after three quarters. The Israeli side also set new club records for points scored and three-pointers made in a EuroLeague game, hitting 18 from deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blakeney finished with 35 points on 12-of-14 shooting, including 8-of-9 from three, after scoring 21 without a miss in the first half. Elijah Bryant posted 16 points and a career-high 12 assists, along with 4 steals, while Dan Oturu added 20 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks. Efes, now 3-5, was led by Jordan Loyd with 19 points, Santi Yusta with 15 and Matthew Strazel with 12 points and 5 assists.<\/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\">Absolutely emphatic from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HapoelTLVBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HapoelTLVBC<\/a> led by an outstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blakeney96?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@blakeney96<\/a> performance! <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/EveryGameMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EveryGameMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CHHU6rljLI\">pic.twitter.com\/CHHU6rljLI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EuroLeague\/status\/2115530597372190967?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>Hapoel Tel Aviv crushes Efes 118-88 to move to 6-2, led by Antonio Blakeney\u2019s club-record 35 points in 22 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":557049,"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-557095","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\/antonio-blakeney-2.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557095","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=557095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557096,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557095\/revisions\/557096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557095"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=557095"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=557095"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=557095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}