{"id":289323,"date":"2025-11-17T00:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289323\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:43:06","slug":"today-marks-the-37th-anniversary-of-the-basketball-teams-21st-copa-de-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289323\/","title":{"rendered":"Today marks the 37th anniversary of the basketball team&#8217;s 21st Copa de Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day 37 years ago,\u00a0Real Madrid&#8217;s\u00a0basketball team lifted their 21st\u00a0Copa de Espa\u00f1a.\u00a0On\u00a017 November 1988, our team got their hands on the trophy when they beat Barcelona in the final (85-81). The Catalan outfit dominated the first half,\u00a0taking a five-point lead into the break (43-48). Following the restart, though,\u00a0Lolo Sainz&#8217;s\u00a0boys reacted to complete the turnaround and add to their trophy haul.<\/p>\n<p>Petrovic\u00a0played a key role in the final, which was held in A Coru\u00f1a, finishing as top scorer with 27 points. He was followed by\u00a0Rogers,\u00a0with 23.\u00a0The win marked the madridistas&#8217; first title of\u00a0the 1988\/89 campaign, before they went on to win the\u00a0FIBA Saporta Cup\u00a0thanks to\u00a0Petrovic&#8217;s\u00a0exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this day 37 years ago,\u00a0Real Madrid&#8217;s\u00a0basketball team lifted their 21st\u00a0Copa de Espa\u00f1a.\u00a0On\u00a017 November 1988, our team got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289323","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=289323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}