{"id":124435,"date":"2025-09-06T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124435\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:32:11","slug":"sengun-scores-24-points-as-turkey-beats-sweden-to-reach-eurobasket-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/124435\/","title":{"rendered":"Sengun scores 24 points as Turkey beats Sweden to reach EuroBasket quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIGA, Latvia (AP) \u2014 NBA All-Star Alperen Sengun scored 24 points as Turkey held off Sweden to win 85-79 and reach the EuroBasket quarterfinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Rockets forward added 16 rebounds and six assists in a stellar performance against Sweden, which drew level at 76-76 thanks to Ludvig Hakanson&#8217;s 3-pointer with just under three minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>Hakanson led the Swedes with 16 points, while Panathinaikos forward Cedi Osman chipped in with 17 points for Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday&#8217;s other round-of-16 matchups, it was World Cup winner Germany vs. Portugal; Lithuania vs. Latvia, and Serbia vs. Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey will play either Poland or Bosnia and Herzegovina for a spot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Spain was eliminated Thursday in the group stage by Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s Greece, while Olympic silver medalist France and its super-deep bench faces Georgia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s other matches, it is Poland vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina; Italy vs. Slovenia, and Greece vs. Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterfinals begin next Tuesday. ___<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGA, Latvia (AP) \u2014 NBA All-Star Alperen Sengun scored 24 points as Turkey held off Sweden to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-124435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}