{"id":598758,"date":"2026-04-10T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598758\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:16:09","slug":"juhasz-meesseman-and-rupert-revealed-as-mvp-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598758\/","title":{"rendered":"Juhasz, Meesseman and Rupert revealed as MVP finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MUNICH (Germany) – Dorka Juhasz, Emma Meesseman and Iliana Rupert have been announced as the finalists for the EuroLeague Women Most Valuable Player award.<\/p>\n

They trio are still in contention for the prestigious honor after finishing in the top three of voting conducted by EuroLeague Women coaches, players, selected media and the fans. <\/p>\n

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Juhasz has been a towering presence for Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring, with her standout play the driving force behind them reaching the last four of this year’s competition. <\/p>\n

Meesseman has enjoyed another outstanding campaign with Fenerbahce Opet and after winning the last three MVP awards, is chasing an incredible fourth consecutive accolade.<\/p>\n

Rupert has also excelled for the Istanbul juggernauts and helped Fenerbahce to reach the Semi-Finals with her stellar contributions. <\/p>\n

The winners of the EuroLeague Women Awards will be announced at a special ceremony at the EuroLeague Women Final Six in Zaragoza, Spain on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dorka Juhasz<\/a> (Galatasaray Cagdas Faktoring)\"\"Center<\/p>\n

Birth Date: December 18, 1999 (26 years old)
\nHeight: 1.92m (6ft 3in)<\/p>\n

Stats: 17.2 EFF \/ 13.4 PPG \/ 8.1 RPG<\/p>\n

Playing some of the best basketball of her career, Juhasz has been outstanding throughout the season. Her size at both ends of the floor has been a real weapon for Galatasaray and she has shown great poise in some big moments. The Hungarian has made plenty of Top Performers line-ups during the year and been a go-to figure. <\/p>\n

\"\"Forward<\/p>\n

Birth Date: May 13, 1993 (32 years old)
\nHeight: 1.93m (6ft 4in)<\/p>\n

Stats: 19.8 EFF \/ 14.5 PPG \/ 5.8 RPG \/ 3.7 APG <\/p>\n

Having won an unprecedented three consecutive MVP awards, the legendary status of Meesseman is already assured, but now she is chasing a fourth straight accolade. After another eye-catching season for Fenerbahce, she is in contention, having again shone brightly with her leadership, scoring, rebounding, court vision and defense.<\/p>\n

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Birth Date: July 12, 2001 (24 years old)
\nHeight: 1.94m (6ft 4in)<\/p>\n

Stats: 19.4 EFF \/ 15.9 PPG \/ 5.9 RPG \/ 1.9 APG<\/p>\n

The French center has posted another excellent season and was the leading performer for Fenerbahce in the early part of the season in particular, underlined by taking the competition’s MVP award for October. The leading scorer for her team, she has really stepped up in a big way for the tournament favorites at both ends of the floor. <\/p>\n

FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official EuroLeague Women app Download Now MUNICH (Germany) – Dorka Juhasz, Emma Meesseman and Iliana Rupert have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-598758","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\/598758","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=598758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}