{"id":746249,"date":"2026-06-19T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:03:14","slug":"eight-years-ago-the-34th-basketball-league-title-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746249\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight years ago, the 34th basketball league title was won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years have passed since the conquest of the 34th basketball league title by Real Madrid. On June 19, 2018, the team coached by Pablo Laso was crowned champion after defeating Baskonia 85-96 in the fourth game of the final. Madrid overcame a home defeat in the first game and won the next three, the last two on their opponent&#8217;s court. In the title-deciding game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-baloncesto\/rodolfo-fernandez-farres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> stood out with 27 points and a performance index rating of 33.<\/p>\n<p>In the Regular Season, Real Madrid finished first with 30 wins and 4 losses. Iberostar Tenerife and Herbalife Gran Canaria were their opponents in the playoffs. In the series against Baskonia, Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez was named MVP of the final, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-baloncesto\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doncic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-baloncesto\/pablo-laso-biurrun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Laso<\/a> were respectively recognized as the best player and best coach of the league.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight years have passed since the conquest of the 34th basketball league title by Real Madrid. On June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-746249","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\/746249","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=746249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}