{"id":660665,"date":"2026-05-09T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:36:13","slug":"rytas-vilnius-win-2026-basketball-champions-league-after-epic-overtime-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660665\/","title":{"rendered":"Rytas Vilnius win 2026 Basketball Champions League after epic overtime win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rytas Vilnius claimed the 2025-26 Basketball Champions League title with a 92-86 victory over AEK Athens. Despite trailing by 20 points in the third quarter, Rytas surged back led by Simonas Lukosius\u2019s 23 points. James Nunnally paced AEK with 23 points in the heartbreaking loss.<\/p>\n<p>2025-26 Basketball Champions League season comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Rytas Vilnius secured themselves a new piece of silverware after beating AEK Athens in the Final Match 92-86 [15-25; 10-17; 20-21; 35-17; 12-6].<\/p>\n<p>AEK was up by as much as 20 points in the third quarter, but failed to keep the lead and ultimately lost the Final game.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2053211371261530192\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Simonas Lukosius was Rytas&#8217; top scorer with 23 points, followed up by 16 of Jerrick Harding , and notable performances of Speedy Smith (11 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists) and Kay Brunhke (10 points, 12 rebounds).<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2053202050968604815\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James Nunnally held its own for AEK with 23 points . BCL MVP Frank Bartley dropped 20, with KeyShawn Feazell scoring 15 along with 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_3\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Support BasketNews so we could make even better content.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rytas Vilnius claimed the 2025-26 Basketball Champions League title with a 92-86 victory over AEK Athens. Despite trailing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-660665","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\/660665","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=660665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}