{"id":16592,"date":"2025-07-23T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16592\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:26:10","slug":"nba-star-giannis-antetokounmpo-set-to-power-greece-at-fiba-eurobasket-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/16592\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo set to power Greece at FIBA EuroBasket 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EuroBasket 2025, co-hosted by Cyprus, Finland, Poland, and Latvia, runs from 27 August-14 September, with Greece placed in Group\u202fC alongside Italy, Spain, Georgia, Cyprus, and Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>Greece will be aiming for its first EuroBasket medal since claiming bronze in 2009. The men\u2019s national team has won two gold medals (1987, 2005), one silver (1989), and two bronze (1949, 2009) in EuroBasket history.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Antetokounmpo&#8217;s participation, NBA superstars Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (Slovenia) and Nikola Joki\u0107 (Serbia) are both expected to feature, while France \u2014 traditionally a powerhouse \u2014 will be showcasing a revamped roster. Notably, their preliminary 18\u2011man squad does not include key stars Victor Wembanyama, Rudy Gobert, or Evan Fournier, likely due to rest or health considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025, co-hosted by Cyprus, Finland, Poland, and Latvia, runs from 27 August-14 September, with Greece placed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","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=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}