{"id":182459,"date":"2025-12-13T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182459\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:13:07","slug":"round-15-co-mvps-lonnie-walker-will-clyburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182459\/","title":{"rendered":"Round 15 co-MVPs: Lonnie Walker, Will Clyburn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A career night for Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv<\/a> guard Lonnie Walker<\/a> and a season-best performance by FC Barcelona<\/a> forward Will Clyburn<\/a> saw them share Round 15 MVP honors. For Walker it is the first time he has been the MVP of the Round in 33 career EuroLeague appearances, while it is the seventh such award for Clyburn in his 258-game career.<\/p>\n

Walker posted a career-high 33 PIR, the joint highest of any player in this round, in Maccabi\u2019s 92-84 win over LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne after netting a career-best 29 points \u2013 the best of any player in Round 15 \u2013 on 10-of-11 two-pointers, 2-of-8 three-pointers and 3-of-3 free throws. What\u2019s more, the guard pulled down a personal-high 9 rebounds, in addition to recording 1 assist and 2 fouls drawn. Walker\u2019s accolade comes after Roman Sorkin<\/a> achieved the same feat in Round 6 of this current campaign.<\/p>\n

Clyburn enjoyed a season-best night as Barcelona grabbed a 98-85 victory against Olympiacos Piraeus, setting new season highs with a 33 PIR and 28 points, which came in large part thanks to a career-high 7 three-pointers made on 10 attempts. He also shot 3 for 5 inside the arc 1 for 1 from the line, in addition to grabbing 3 rebounds, dishing 2 assists, making 3 steals, blocking 1 shot and drawing 2 fouls. Clyburn follows Toko Shengelia in earning MVP of the Round honors this season, as the Georgian did so in Round 8.<\/p>\n

Two players shared the next-best index rating in Round 15, with Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade\u2019s Tyrique Jones<\/a> and Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv\u2019s Dan Oturu<\/a> each recording a 30 PIR \u2013 a season high for Jones, a career-best effort in the case of Oturu.<\/p>\n

In Partizan\u2019s 79-76 Rivalry Series triumph over Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade, Jones finished with 15 points on 6-of-7 two-point attempts and 3-of-4 free throws, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 steals and 7 fouls drawn. Oturu, however, led his team to a 74-79 win at Virtus Bologna, posting 21 points on 9-of-10 two-pointers and 3-of-4 free throws, 10 boards, 1 steal, 1 block and 5 fouls drawn. This is the first double-double of Oturu\u2019s 75-game career.<\/p>\n

Sorkin rounds out the list of best performers in Round 15 with a PIR of 29. The Maccabi forward poured in a career-high 26 points on 8-of-13 two-point attempts, 1-of-3 triples and 7-of-10 free throws, as well as 7 rebounds, 1 assist, a joint career-best 4 blocks \u2013 the second round in succession he has had 4 blocks \u2013 and 6 fouls drawn.<\/p>\n

Individual highs: Roman Sorkin, Maccabi, 4 blocks<\/p>\n

Lonnie Walker was the top scorer in Round 15 with 29 points. Paris Basketball\u2019s Nadir Hifi is this season\u2019s leading scorer with 20.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Zalgiris Kaunas big man Azuolas Tubelis and Partizan forward Isaac Bonga pulled down 11 rebounds apiece, more than anyone else in this round. Olympiacos Piraeus center Nikola Milutinov tops the rebounding charts with 7.6 boards per night.<\/p>\n

Three players \u2013 Zalgiris\u2019s Nigel Williams-Goss, Virtus\u2019s Luca Vildoza and Olympiacos\u2019s Thomas Walkup \u2013 each had a round-high 10 assists. Zalgiris playmaker Sylvain Francisco is the top assists provider this season with 7.1 dimes per contest.<\/p>\n

There were also three players who led the way in steals in Round 15 with 4 apiece: Tyrique Jones, AS Monaco\u2019s Alpha Diallo and Hapoel\u2019s Ish Wainright. Diallo is also the season leader in this category with 1.8 steals per game.<\/p>\n

Roman Sorkin topped all players in blocks in this round with 4. Real Madrid\u2019s Walter Tavares is atop the leaderboard in blocks with 2.0 rejections per night.<\/p>\n

Tubelis (17 points, 11 rebounds), Williams-Goss (18 points, 10 assists), Oturu (21 points, 10 rebounds) and Bonga (16 points, 11 rebounds) were the only players to finish with a double-double in Round 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A career night for Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv guard Lonnie Walker and a season-best performance by FC Barcelona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-182459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}