{"id":661314,"date":"2026-05-10T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:34:14","slug":"40-years-since-the-25th-basketball-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661314\/","title":{"rendered":"40 years since the 25th Basketball League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25th\u00a0Basketball League\u00a0title of\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0celebrates its 40th anniversary.\u00a0On May 10, 1986, the team managed by\u00a0Lolo Sainz\u00a0was crowned champion after defeating Barcelona away in the second game of the final. It was the third consecutive league title for our team, the only one at that time to win under the ACB format.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u00a0arrived in Barcelona with an advantage in the final after winning the first game 83-80. Lolo Sainz&#8217;s team had the chance to clinch the series in the second match, and they did just that. Barcelona started strong and led at halftime (41-35), but our team, led by an outstanding\u00a0Fernando Mart\u00edn, who scored 26 points, and\u00a0Townes, who added 20, turned the game around to win 86-88 in a thrilling final stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25th\u00a0Basketball League\u00a0title of\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0celebrates its 40th anniversary.\u00a0On May 10, 1986, the team managed by\u00a0Lolo Sainz\u00a0was crowned champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-661314","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\/661314","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=661314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}