{"id":404655,"date":"2025-09-07T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404655\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:13:15","slug":"eurobasket-2025-great-britain-earn-shock-win-over-montenegro-to-end-12-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404655\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025: Great Britain earn shock win over Montenegro to end 12-year wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain ended their 12-year wait for a EuroBasket victory with a shock 89-83 win over Montenegro in Finland.<\/b><\/p>\n

In their final Group B match, Myles Hesson and Akwasi Yeboah led scoring for Britain with 25 and 23 points respectively.<\/p>\n

GB sit 48th in Fiba’s world rankings, 32 places below Montenegro.<\/p>\n

However, both teams will exit EuroBasket at the group stage because of fourth-placed Sweden’s superior point difference, with the top four from each group advancing to the last 16.<\/p>\n

In Britain’s most recent EuroBasket appearances, in 2022 and 2017, they lost all five group matches each time, with their last EuroBasket win having come against Germany in 2013.<\/p>\n

The British squad is one of six from the 24 EuroBasket nations – and the only one in their group – not to contain at least one active NBA player.<\/p>\n

Instead, Britain’s team is made up of players who play domestically across the Super League, as well as in Hungary, Turkey, Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n

Montenegro were captained by Chicago Bulls centre Nikola Vucevic, who scored 31 points, as well as registering 11 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n

Vucevic, 34, called time on his 14-year international career following the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain ended their 12-year wait for a EuroBasket victory with a shock 89-83 win over Montenegro in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-404655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115161779764640595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}