The Round 17 showdown between Barcelona and Baskonia ended a historic EuroLeague week in style
Barcelona sets scoring record, Punter joins exclusive club on memorable Friday night
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FC BarcelonaBAR
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Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-GasteizKBA
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Multiple EuroLeague scoring records were broken on Friday night during the frenetic triple-overtime showdown between FC Barcelona and Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.
The clash between the two Spanish rivals at Palau Blaugrana will go down in the EuroLeague record books as the highest scoring game in competition history, and the night Barcelona broke the EuroLeague's all-time scoring record.
And all of that just 24 hours after Theo Maledon of Real Madrid scored the 1,000,000th point in competition history.
No team has ever scored more points in a EuroLeague game than Barcelona’s 134, breaking the record of 130 which Real Madrid set nearly two years ago.
The combined 258 points in Barcelona’s 134-124 triple-overtime triumph are the most scored by two teams in a EuroLeague game, surpassing the mark of 256 from January 6, 2024, when Real Madrid defeated Anadolu Efes Istanbul 130-126 after four overtimes.
This clash, which was the 6,368th game in competition history, marks the first time a EuroLeague contest finished after triple overtime, and just the second time that a game went past two overtimes.
Barcelona hero Kevin Punter finished with a career-high 43 points, which is the fourth most in the modern EuroLeague era, becoming just the ninth man to score more than 40 points in a single game. Punter’s heroics included 23 points after the end of the fourth quarter, including a driving layup with 0.1 seconds left in the second overtime session to tie the game at 122-122 and eventually allow history to be rewritten.
Among other marks, Punter also broke Barcelona's club record with 12 two-point shots made, while the Blaugrana broke a club record for total team PIR (152).
Baskonia, meanwhile, also broke its club scoring record with 124 points, which is the fifth-best mark all-time, only below Barcelona (134) in this game, Real (130) and Efes (126) from their quadruple-overtime contest, and AS Monaco, which scored 125 points earlier in December.
