{"id":87236,"date":"2025-08-22T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87236\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:16:13","slug":"star-power-who-are-basketball-legends-and-celebrities-picking-to-win-fiba-eurobasket-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87236\/","title":{"rendered":"Star power: Who are basketball legends and celebrities picking to win FIBA EuroBasket 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"_1dz8zx00 wzy8oya wzy8oy7 wzy8oy8 wzy8oy5 wzy8oyb _1yo6x8u0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.fiba.basketball\/eurobasket-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The official EuroBasket app<\/p>\n<p>Download Now<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIGA (Latvia) &#8211; The stage is set for FIBA EuroBasket 2025, with 24 national teams from across Europe ready to battle for continental glory.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just the fans who are counting down the days. From basketball legends to fellow sports stars and cultural icons, everyone is waiting for Europe&#8217;s flagship basketball event to tip off.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ru3du4v\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-eurobasket-2025\/news\/media-predictions-champions-surprises-and-mvp-favorites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:10\/5.625;opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/>Media Predictions: Champions, surprises and MVP favorites<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the much-anticipated tip-off, we asked this diverse cast of voices to share their predictions: who will lift the trophy in Riga, who will stand on the podium, and who will be crowned the TISSOT MVP?<\/p>\n<p>Name<\/p>\n<p>Champions<\/p>\n<p>Runners-up<\/p>\n<p>Third Place<\/p>\n<p>TISSOT MVP<\/p>\n<p>Deniz Aksoy<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Alperen Sengun<\/p>\n<p>Ioannis Bourousis<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Italy<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Vlade Divac<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Italy<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Goran Dragic<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Spain<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Panagiotis Giannakis<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/p>\n<p>Mike James<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Mindaugas Kuzminskas<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Emma Meesseman<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Balkan Dad (Milos Nedeljkov)<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Greeece<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Nowitzki<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Schroder<\/p>\n<p>Damian Quintero<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Spain<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic<\/p>\n<p>Omar Sy<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Tomasz Tomanek<\/p>\n<p>Poland<\/p>\n<p>Greece<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic<\/p>\n<p>Kostas Tsartsaris<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Serbia<\/p>\n<p>Spain<\/p>\n<p>Zaccharie Risacher<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think will be crowned champions?<\/p>\n<p>Cast your vote below and make your voice heard!<\/p>\n<p>FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official EuroBasket app Download Now RIGA (Latvia) &#8211; The stage is set for FIBA EuroBasket 2025, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-87236","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\/87236","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=87236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}