{"id":27377,"date":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/basketball-cup-london-lions-and-sheffield-hatters-claim-final-wins\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:32:07","slug":"basketball-cup-london-lions-and-sheffield-hatters-claim-final-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/basketball-cup-london-lions-and-sheffield-hatters-claim-final-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Cup: London Lions and Sheffield Hatters claim final wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">London Lions won their second final of the season as they beat Manchester 83-74 to lift the Super League Basketball Cup.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c86vx18nn85o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">who beat Newcastle to lift the Trophy last month,<\/a> trailed 40-32 in Manchester at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they reduced the deficit to one by the end of the third quarter and quick three-pointers from Kameron McGusty, Joel Scott and Deane Williams turned the game in their favour in the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guard McGusty was named MVP with 21 points, seven assists and six rebounds for the winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They understood that without doing what we do every day, without playing with the defence that we do, we are not a good team,&#8221; said head coach Tautvydas Sabonis, who is the brother of Sacramento Kings forward Domantas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lions are four points clear at the top of Super League with four games in hand and remain on course for a domestic quadruple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c80mlkj2k0xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Lions won their second final of the season as they beat Manchester 83-74 to lift the Super League Basketball Cup. The Lions, who beat Newcastle to lift the Trophy last month, trailed 40-32 in Manchester at half-time. However, they reduced the deficit to one by the end of the third quarter and quick three-pointers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27379,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27377\/revisions\/27379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}