{"id":567176,"date":"2026-03-27T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567176\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:44:11","slug":"49-years-ago-the-19th-basketball-league-title-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567176\/","title":{"rendered":"49 years ago, the 19th basketball league title was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 49 years since Real Madrid won their nineteenth\u00a0basketball league. On March 27, 1977, our team was crowned champions on the final matchday after defeating Joventut (99-101). The madridistas finished with 21 wins in 22 games and a total of 42 points, one more than Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The team, then coached by\u00a0Lolo Sainz, secured their tenth consecutive league title.\u00a0Szczerbiak\u00a0and\u00a0Brabender\u00a0were the top scorers for\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0in that edition. That squad capped off an outstanding season by achieving a treble:\u00a0League,\u00a0Intercontinental\u00a0Cup, and\u00a0Copa de Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been 49 years since Real Madrid won their nineteenth\u00a0basketball league. On March 27, 1977, our team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-567176","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\/567176","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=567176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}