{"id":718485,"date":"2026-06-06T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:44:13","slug":"72-years-since-the-third-spanish-basketball-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/718485\/","title":{"rendered":"72 years since the third Spanish Basketball Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 72 years since Real Madrid&#8217;s third Spanish Basketball Cup. On June 6, 1954, our team claimed the title after defeating Joventut in the final (56-41). The madridistas, who had inaugurated their record in the competition three years earlier, dominated the 1950s by reaching eight consecutive Cup finals, winning five of them.<\/p>\n<p>After a tightly contested first half, Real Madrid made the difference in the second half to win the final by 15 points at the Front\u00f3n Fiesta Alegre in Madrid. Gal\u00edndez was the standout player on a team that featured Freddy Borr\u00e1s as a player-coach.<\/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":"It has been 72 years since Real Madrid&#8217;s third Spanish Basketball Cup. On June 6, 1954, our team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-718485","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\/718485","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=718485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}