{"id":417276,"date":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:04:43","slug":"surne-bilbao-basket-crowned-back-to-back-fiba-europe-cup-champions-about-fiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417276\/","title":{"rendered":"Surne Bilbao Basket crowned back-to-back FIBA Europe Cup champions |\u00a0About FIBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BILBAO (Spain) &#8211; Surne Bilbao Basket made FIBA Europe Cup history by successfully defending their title in a thrilling Finals encounter with PAOK BC.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish side are the first club to win the competition for a second time, as they repeated last season&#8217;s success with a 89-74 triumph at home on Wednesday to seal an overall 162-153 triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams had also met in last season&#8217;s Finals when Bilbao prevailed by five points on aggregate to lift the title in Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n<p>PAOK secured a 79-73 victory in the Finals opener, and still had the overall lead in the tie at half-time down 43-41 in the second leg. However, Bilbao used a strong third period to take control and were able to celebrate the title win in front of a sold-out crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Darrun Hilliard earned the Finals MVP accolade with averages of 17.5 points and 3.5 assists across the two legs, including 16 points and 5 assists in the second leg.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PAOK had been aiming to become the first Greek club to win the competition, and secure a first European title in more than three decades, but came up short for a successive season.<\/p>\n<p>It meant more history for Bilbao as they are also the first team to win the Finals after losing the first leg, and now stand alone as the competition&#8217;s first team to win multiple titles.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>About FIBA Europe Cup<br \/>\nFor further information about the FIBA Europe Cup, visit the <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-europe-cup-24-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website<\/a> or follow us on <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIBAEuropeCup\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/FIBAEuropeCup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/FIBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BILBAO (Spain) &#8211; Surne Bilbao Basket made FIBA Europe Cup history by successfully defending their title in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-417276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417276","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=417276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}