{"id":2635,"date":"2026-04-26T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:50:00","slug":"sasha-vezenkov-euroleague-mvp-for-the-second-time-in-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Vezenkov: Euroleague MVP for the second time in his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MVP award for this year&#8217;s Euroleague regular season is named after <b>Sasha Vezenkov<\/b>! <\/p>\n<p>The <b>Olympiacosos superstar <\/b>performed a tremendous regular season with 19.4 points, 6.6 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.1 turnovers and 23.1 PIR per 28&#8217;22&#8221; of play in 34 games, starting all of them as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Piraeus <b>forward<\/b> garnered the majority of votes from team captains, coaches (70% overall), media (20%) and fans (10%), with Zalgiris&#8217; Sylvain Francisco taking second place and Hapoel Tel Aviv&#8217;s <b>Elaiza Bryant<\/b> taking third.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, after winning the <b>Alphonso Ford Trophy<\/b> by being the top scorer in the competition, but also leading in the ratings, Vezenkov wins the Euroleague MVP award for the second time in his career after the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>This puts him in a particularly tight group as he became only the 2nd player to be voted MVP in two different seasons. <b>The first to do so was Anthony Parker in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the award remains on &#8230; Greek soil after Panathinaikos guard <b>Kendrick Nunn<\/b> claimed it last season. In the past, two other Olympiacos players have won the Most Valuable Player award and they are Milos Teodosic and Vassilis Spanoulis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MVP award of this year&#8217;s Euroleague regular season is named after Sasha Vezenkov! The Olympiacos superstar made a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}