By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
DeVante’ Jones was named Most Valuable Player of Round 15 in the 2025-26 BKT EuroCup Regular Season.
Euroleague Basketball confirmed the 27-year-old point guard of Dolomiti Energia Trento as the latest MVP of the Round on Thursday.
Per the press release: “Devante’ Jones delivered his most explosive performance yet in the BKT EuroCup, powering Dolomiti Energia Trento to a dramatic comeback win and claiming Round 15 MVP honors with a masterful all‑around showing. The Trento guard was unstoppable in a breakout night, recording his first EuroCup double‑double with 24 points and 10 assists, fueling a 93-94 victory over Lietkabelis Panevezys and producing a career‑best PIR of 43 – a mark that also tied the club record and stood as the top performance of the round.
Round 15 belongs to Devante Jones 💫
MVP honors after a dominant night for @AquilaBasketTN 👀#RoadToGreatness pic.twitter.com/drusryDWWO
— BKT EuroCup (@EuroCup) January 22, 2026
While it was teammate DJ Steward who finished off the win with a buzzer-beating three-pointer, Jones set the stage with a memorable showing, which also including 3 steals and 10 fouls drawn. He received the MVP honor for the second time this season after being the co-MVP of Round 12. He joins Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem’s Jared Harper, Aris Thessaloniki Betsson’s Bryce Jones and Besiktas GAIN Istanbul’s Ante Zizic as the only players to earn multiple MVP of the Round nods this season.
The second-highest PIR of the round came from Neptunas Klaipeda’s Arnas Velicka. He amassed a PIR of 37 with 25 points and 11 assists in a narrow loss at BAXI Manresa. ratiopharm ulm’s Christian Sengfelder posted a PIR of 34 in his team’s 72-73 road win at the London Lions. Sengfelder was also nearly perfect in his shooting, missing just a single shot, in racking up 23 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals for a PIR of 34.
Zacharie Perrin shined with a PIR of 33 as Veolia Hamburg Towers bested Umana Reyer Venice 95-87 for the club’s first win of the season. The 21-year-old center posted 21 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks in posting his second straight double-double.
Rounding out the top performers of Round 15 Louis Olinde of Manresa and DJ Stewart of Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, each with PIRs of 32. Olinde had 24 points, 9 rebounds and the game-winning layup in a 97-96 triumph over Neptunas. Steward compiled 26 points, 6 rebounds, 2 dimes and 2 steals in an 86-80 win over U-BT Cluj-Napoca.
Individual highs: Neptunas’s Arnas Velicka, 11 assists
A pair of Aris Thessaloniki Betsson teammates shared the distinction of scoring the most points in Round 15. Both Danilo Andjusic and Elijah Mitrou-Lon scored 26 points in their team’s 107-113 double-overtime win at Slask Wroclaw. Fatts Russell of U-BT Cluj-Napoca remains the competition’s top scorer with 20.7 points per game.
Russell’s Cluj teammate Dusan Miletic topped the charts in rebounding for the round with 13 boards in a loss at Cedevita. He is now fourth in the EuroCup with 8.1 boards per game. Austin Wiley of Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem continues to lead the EuroCup with 9.0 rebounds per game.
The 11 assists by Neptunas’s Arnas Velicka were the most recorded by any player in Round 15 and raised his EuroCup-leading average to 7.4 per game.
10 different players recorded 3 steals in the round. None of them were able to overtake Dogus Ozdemiroglu of Turk Telekom Ankara, whose average of 2.1 steals still leads the standings.
Trento’s Peyton Aldridge, Cedevita’s Matthew Hurt and Besiktas’s Ismael Kamagate shared the top spot in the weekly charts with 3 blocks in Round 15. Manresa’s Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu will spend another week as the full-season leader with his average of 1.6 per game.
Five players collected double-doubles in Round 15: Fatts Russell, Devante’ Jones and Arnas Velicka did so with points and assists and Zacharie Perrin and Dusan Miletic did so with points and rebounds.”