{"id":688971,"date":"2026-05-23T06:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:48:22","slug":"33-years-ago-the-26th-basketball-league-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688971\/","title":{"rendered":"33 years ago, the 26th Basketball League was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 33rd anniversary of\u00a0Real Madrid&#8217;s 26th Basketball League. On May 23, 1993, our team secured the title by winning the fifth and final game of the series against Joventut. The madridistas triumphed in the first two games of the series at home, but the Catalan team took the next two games in Badalona. In the decisive 78-69 victory, standout performances came from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/en-US\/the-club\/history\/basketball-legends\/arvydas-romas-sabonis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sabonis<\/a>, who scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. The Lithuanian was named MVP of the final.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u00a0was also the best team in the Regular Season with a record of 25 wins and 6 losses. During the playoffs, they faced Valvi Girona (round of 16), Elos\u00faa Le\u00f3n (quarterfinals), and Estudiantes (semifinals). With the victory in the final against Joventut, the team managed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/en-US\/the-club\/history\/basketball-legends\/clifford-luyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Clifford Luyk<\/a>\u00a0achieved a double that season by also winning the\u00a0Copa del Rey\u00a0against the verdinegros.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today marks the 33rd anniversary of\u00a0Real Madrid&#8217;s 26th Basketball League. On May 23, 1993, our team secured the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-688971","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\/688971","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=688971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}