{"id":252101,"date":"2025-08-26T18:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/252101\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:42:09","slug":"eurobasket-notes-cyprus-players-to-watch-celtics-heat-top-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/252101\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket Notes: Cyprus, Players To Watch, Celtics, Heat, Top Matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus, which will be competing in EuroBasket for the first time ever this year, announced its 12-man roster for the event on Monday, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-eurobasket-2025\/news\/cyprus-lock-in-roster-for-first-ever-eurobasket-appearance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FIBA relays<\/a>. Cyprus\u2019 national team doesn\u2019t feature any current or former NBA players, but the group includes former Wichita State big man <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/international\/players\/darral-willis-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Darral Willis<\/a>, up-and-coming point guard Filippos Tigkas, and sharpshooter Konstantinos Simitzis, who was the club\u2019s leading scorer in the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Competing in Group C, Cyprus will begin its group-play games on Thursday against Bosnia and Herzegovina before taking on Greece, Spain, Georgia, and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more on EuroBasket 2025, which will tip off on Wednesday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyprus, which will be competing in EuroBasket for the first time ever this year, announced its 12-man roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,42592,42593,875,144,42594,295,189,3881,6,4986,2248],"class_list":{"0":"post-252101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-darral-willis","10":"tag-filippos-tigkas","11":"tag-goga-bitadze","12":"tag-heat","13":"tag-konstantinos-simitzis","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miamiheat","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-neemias-queta","19":"tag-pelle-larsson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}