{"id":468358,"date":"2026-05-30T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468358\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:06:09","slug":"53-years-ago-the-15th-spanish-basketball-cup-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468358\/","title":{"rendered":"53 years ago, the 15th Spanish Basketball Cup was won."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>53 years have passed since Real Madrid&#8217;s 15th Spanish Basketball Cup. On May 31, 1973, the team led by Pedro Ferr\u00e1ndiz was crowned champion after defeating Estudiantes at the La Salle Pavilion in Paterna (Valencia) with a score of 126-87. Real Madrid showcased its dominance in national basketball by achieving its fourth consecutive League and Cup double.<\/p>\n<p>In the final against Estudiantes, the team controlled the scoreboard from the start and went into halftime with a 54-48 lead. The madridistas increased their scoring pace after the break, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/en\/about-real-madrid\/history\/basketball-legends\/clifford-luyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Luyk<\/a>, who finished with 32 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/en\/about-real-madrid\/history\/basketball-legends\/wayne-brabender-cole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brabender<\/a> (30). Additionally, Ferr\u00e1ndiz&#8217;s team set the record for the largest point difference in a Cup final (+39).<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Translation generated by artificial intelligence. It may contain inaccuracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"53 years have passed since Real Madrid&#8217;s 15th Spanish Basketball Cup. On May 31, 1973, the team led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-468358","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\/468358","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=468358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}