{"id":557232,"date":"2026-10-29T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=557232"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:21:02","slug":"euroleague-round-8-standouts-blakeney-mvp-carter-and-nunn-among-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-round-8-standouts-blakeney-mvp-carter-and-nunn-among-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague Round 8 standouts: Blakeney MVP, Carter and Nunn among the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antonio Blakeney headlines EuroLeague Round 8 after posting 35 points and a 35 PIR against Anadolu Efes. Tyson Carter, Kendrick Nunn, Azuolas Tubelis and Walter Tavares also make the list, while Maxime Lefevre is the selected coach after Paris\u2019 road win in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Antonio Blakeney \u2013 Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dominant performance against Anadolu Efes: <strong>35 points and a 35 PIR<\/strong> in Hapoel\u2019s convincing win. He is the Round 8 MVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tyson Carter \u2013 Crvena Zvezda<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter starred in Zvezda\u2019s comfortable win over Maccabi Tel Aviv, finishing with <strong>24 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and a 26 PIR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kendrick Nunn \u2013 Panathinaikos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nunn played a key role in the win over Olimpia Milan, recording <strong>20 points, 9-of-11 free throws, 6 assists and a 26 PIR<\/strong>, while also delivering in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Azuolas Tubelis \u2013 Zalgiris Kaunas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tubelis made his presence felt without needing a big scoring night, posting <strong>9 points, 11 rebounds and a 21 PIR<\/strong> in Zalgiris\u2019 road win over Virtus Bologna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walter Tavares \u2013 Real Madrid<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Real Madrid center contributed a double-double in Vitoria with <strong>10 points, 12 rebounds and a 22 PIR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coach Maxime Lefevre \u2013 Paris Basketball<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coaching nod goes to Maxime Lefevre after Paris Basketball earned an impressive road victory against Dubai, only its second EuroLeague win of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Blakeney is the Round 8 MVP, with Carter, Nunn, Tubelis and Tavares among the standouts and Maxime Lefevre selected as coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":489709,"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":[16775],"class_list":["post-557232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Kendrick-Nunn.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557232","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=557232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557233,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557232\/revisions\/557233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557232"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=557232"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=557232"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=557232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}