{"id":57506,"date":"2015-09-21T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57506"},"modified":"2015-09-21T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T10:16:11","slug":"spain-crowned-eurobasket-2015-champions-57506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/spain-crowned-eurobasket-2015-champions-57506\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain crowned EuroBasket 2015 champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spain-eurobasket-champion.jpg\" alt=\"Spain crowned EuroBasket 2015 champions\" width=\"610\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spain-eurobasket-champion.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spain-eurobasket-champion-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spain-eurobasket-champion-596x360.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>Spain took its third European basketball title in the last four tournaments Sunday as it triumphed 80-63 against Lithuania in the EuroBasket final.<\/h1>\n<p>Pau Gasol\u2019s \u201cdouble-double\u201d was vital in the Spaniards\u2019 victory as he took 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds. The 35-year-old center was selected as the tournament\u2019s Most Valuable Player. Gasol&#8217;s teammates Sergio Llull secured 12 points while Rudy Fernandez got 11.<\/p>\n<p>Spain won the tournament in 2009 and 2011 but settled for third-place two years ago when France won the title. Lithuania\u2019s Mantas Kalnietis and Renaldas Seibutis tallied 13 points each.<\/p>\n<p>Gasol also made the contest\u2019s All-Star Five, alongside Lithuania\u2019s Jonas Valanciunas and Jonas Maciulis, Nando De Colo of France and Spain\u2019s Sergio Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Host nation France finished third in the tournament after beating Serbia 81-68. De Colo was top scorer with 20 points (Anadolu Agency).<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain took its third European basketball title in the last four tournaments Sunday as it triumphed 80-63 against Lithuania in the EuroBasket final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,80,127],"tags":[17449,75614,31070],"class_list":["post-57506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-eurobasket","tag-eurobasket-2015","tag-pau-gasol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}