Game Notes: Real Madrid vs. Olympiacos

- This is a rematch of the 2023 championship game in which Sergio Lull made a game-winning jumper with 3.1 seconds to go for a 79-78 win in Kaunas as Real won its 11th EuroLeague title.
- Real swept Olympiacos during the regular season. Real won 71-77 in Piraeus in Round 12 as Dzanan Musa scored 23 points and tied a career-best with 5 triples made. In Madrid in Round 23, Real held off Olympiacos 90-85 with Facundo Campazzo collecting 12 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds.
- Real Madrid downed Olympiacos in the 1995 EuroLeague championship game, 73-61. Arvydas Sabonis was chosen as the 1995 Final Four MVP.
- Olympiacos defeated Real Madrid 100-89 for the 2013 EuroLeague title in London. Vassilis Spanoulis scored 22 points in that game and was named Final Four MVP.
- Real Madrid routed Olympiacos 78-59 in the 2015 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game in the Spanish capital. Jaycee Carroll led a balanced Madrid attack with 16 points on 4-of-5 three-point shooting and Andres Nocioni was named Final Four MVP.
- Olympiacos and Real Madrid have faced each other three times in the EuroLeague Playoffs. Real advanced to the Final Four in 1996 with a 2-1 win in the best-of-three series and Olympiacos ousted Real 3-1 in 2009's best-of-five series. Real eliminated Olympiacos in the 2014 EuroLeague Playoffs 3-2. Rudy Fernandez led Los Blancos with an average of 17.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game and Sergio Llull starred with 20 points in the decisive fifth game.
- Olympiacos guard Nigel Williams-Goss spent the last two seasons with Real, helping it reach the 2022 EuroLeague championship game, and win the 2023 EuroLeague crown.
- Real's Sergio Rodriguez and Olympiacos forward Alec Peters were teammates at CSKA Moscow during the 2018-19 season. They helped the team win the EuroLeague championship.
- Olympiacos center Moustapha Fall and Real's Guerschon Yabusele were teammates at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne for the 2020-21 season.
- Fall has been a teammate of Real's Vincent Poirier and Yabusele on the French national team. Together they won silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics and EuroBasket 2022. Fall and Yabusele have also been teammates at the 2023 World Cup.
- Olympiacos forward Kostas Papanikolaou posted his career high with 25 points and tied a career-high with 6 triples made in a Round 23 loss.
- Olympiacos forward Luke Sikma tied his career high with 7 offensive rebounds in a Round 23 loss against Real Madrid.
- Real swingman Mario Hezonja and Olympiacos forward Kostas Papanikolaou were teammates at FC Barcelona during the 2013-14 season.
- Olympiacos guard Isaiah Canaan and Hezonja were teammates at UNICS Kazan during the 2021-22 season.
- Hezonja posted his career high with 4 steals playing for UNICS Kazan against Olympiacos in December 2021.
- Real’s All-EuroLeague center Walter Tavares had a career-best 4 steals in an overtime win over Olympiacos in April 2021.
- Real point guard Sergio Rodriguez made a career-best 6 three-pointers playing for CSKA Moscow against Olympiacos in November 2018.
- Facundo Campazzo collected a career-high 5 steals playing for Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade against Olympiacos in April 2023.
- Olympiacos center Nikola Milutinov recorded a career-best 3 blocks twice against Real Madrid, in December 2017 and November 2018.