{"id":690996,"date":"2026-05-24T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:50:08","slug":"68-years-ago-the-second-basketball-league-title-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690996\/","title":{"rendered":"68 years ago, the second basketball league title was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0basketball team won its second\u00a0League\u00a0title on May 24, 1958. Our team, which had secured the first edition of this competition the previous year, mathematically clinched the title in the penultimate matchday by defeating Layetano in Barcelona 34-97.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid&#8217;s record in that\u00a0League\u00a0was 16 wins and 2 losses, finishing with 32 points and surpassing Joventut (29) in the standings. Coached by\u00a0Ignacio Pinedo, the squad featured standout players such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-baloncesto\/alfonso-martinez-gomez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Alfonso Mart\u00ednez<\/a>, the championship&#8217;s top scorer, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-baloncesto\/juan-ramon-baez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Johnny B\u00e1ez<\/a>, a legend of the section who joined that season.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Real Madrid\u00a0basketball team won its second\u00a0League\u00a0title on May 24, 1958. Our team, which had secured the first edition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-690996","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\/690996","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=690996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}