A back-and-forth battle between a pair of 8-0 groups went all the way down to the wire in Sunday’s EuroBasket championship sport, with Sacramento Kings level guard Dennis Schroder serving to to safe a gold medal for Germany by scoring the ultimate six factors and turning an 83-82 deficit into an 88-83 victory over Turkey.
Schöder (16 factors, 12 assists), former NBA wing Isaac Bonga (20 factors, 4-of-4 three-pointers), and Orlando Magic ahead Franz Wagner (18 factors, eight rebounds) had been the standout performers for Germany, which has gained two of the previous three main worldwide basketball competitions.
Though the Germans didn’t make the rostrum on the Paris Olympics final summer time, the nation is now the defending FIBA World Cup (2023) and EuroBasket (2025) champion and has posted a 21-2 file in these three tournaments, per HoopsHype (Twitter link).
Germany outlasted a Turkish nationwide group that was led by Houston Rockets heart Alperen Sengun (28 factors), former NBA ahead Cedi Osman (23 factors, 6-of-9 on three-pointers), former NBA guard Shane Larkin (13 factors, 9 assists, six rebounds), and Philadelphia 76ers massive man Adem Bona (12 factors, 5-of-5 taking pictures).
Whereas they weren’t in a position to declare their first EuroBasket championship, Turkey matched their best-ever outcome by taking silver. The Turkish group earlier misplaced to Yugoslavia within the 2001 remaining, which was the one different time the nation made the championship sport.
Schroder was named the EuroBasket Most Worthwhile Participant after main the Germans to their first title within the occasion since 1993. He scored at the least 16 factors in all 9 video games, averaging 20.3 factors and seven.2 assists per contest.
The 2025 EuroBasket All-Star Five was made up solely of NBA gamers, with Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic (Slovenia) and Milwaukee Bucks ahead Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) becoming a member of Schroder, Wagner, and Sengun.
Antetokounmpo and the Greek nationwide group beat Finland within the third-place sport earlier on Sunday.
