Myles Hesson scored 25 points to lead Britain to its first victory in 12 years at the EuroBasket tournament on Wednesday, a 89-83 upset of Montenegro that ended their rivals’ hopes of qualifying for the knockout phase.<\/p>\n
Britain had lost its previous four games in Group B but produced a strong collective display to break its losing streak and stun Montenegro, which needed a win to progress to the round of 16.<\/p>\n
Hesson also grabbed seven rebounds, and Akwasi Yeboah added 23 points for Britain.<\/p>\n
Chicago Bulls<\/a> center Nikola Vucevic<\/a> led Montenegro with 31 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists but couldn’t make up for Montenegro turning the ball over 18 times.<\/p>\n Both Montenegro and Britain were eliminated, and the outcome favored Sweden, which advanced to the knockout phase for the first time despite losing to Lithuania 74-71.<\/p>\n Germany beat Finland 91-61 to finish unbeaten in Group B, while Finland advanced in third place, just below Lithuania heading into the round of 16.<\/p>\n The knockout phase will be in Riga, Latvia, starting on Saturday.<\/p>\n Celtics center Queta ejected, Portugal advances<\/p>\n Portugal posted a crucial 68-65 win over Estonia to qualify from Group A, despite Boston Celtics<\/a> center Neemias Queta<\/a>‘s ejection in the third quarter.<\/p>\n Estonia had a 64-61 lead heading into the final minute but Rafael Lisboa tied the game with 54 seconds left with a 3-pointer. Lisboa then added four free throws to finish with 17 points and five assists.<\/p>\n Portugal will face Germany on Saturday for a spot in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n Queta was ejected with 4:34 left in the third quarter with Portugal leading by one point after picking up two technical fouls. He scored 15 points.<\/p>\n In the same group in Riga, Latvia routed the Czech Republic 109-75 to delight the home crowd including President Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds.<\/p>\n The duo of brothers Davis and Dairis Bertans led Latvia with 20 points each. Atlanta Hawks<\/a> center Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> posted 16 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n Latvia finished third in the group and will play Lithuania in the last 16.<\/p>\n Turkey beats Serbia to advance as Group A winner<\/p>\n Turkey made six free throws in the final minute to seal a 95-90 victory over Serbia and advance as Group A winners.<\/p>\n Eyes were on Alperen Sengun<\/a> and Nikola Jokic<\/a> as the two unbeaten teams went head-to-head for the top spot. Sengun, the Houston Rockets<\/a> center, led Turkey with 28 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists.<\/p>\n Turkey put the game away with a series of free throws. Sengun made two free throws with 41 seconds remaining to put Turkey ahead 91-90. Shane Larkin drew a foul with 15 seconds on the clock and made both free throws. Sengun returned to the line with 10 seconds left to extend Turkeys’ lead to 95-90.<\/p>\n Jokic led Serbia with 22 points, nine rebounds and three steals.<\/p>\n Both teams next play on Saturday: Turkey faces Sweden; Serbia gets Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myles Hesson scored 25 points to lead Britain to its first victory in 12 years at the EuroBasket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-116953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}