Pablo Laso will look to boost Bayern's (8-11) playoff hopes by masterminding a victory against former club and league leader Real (17-2).
Game Notes: Bayern vs. Madrid



Real enjoyed a comfortable win, 88-73, when the teams met in Madrid last month as Sergio Llull rolled back the years with 16 points. Bayern will have to find defensive solutions against Dzanan Musa after his 40 points in last week's historic showdown with Efes, and the German team will also hope that veteran leader Vladimir Lucic can start to find top form after working his way back from a long-term injury in the last five games.
- Bayern head coach Pablo Laso coached Real Madrid for 11 years, from 2011 to 2022. Among many feats during that time, Laso guided Los Blancos to EuroLeague titles in 2015 and 2018, years he was also voted as EuroLeague Coach of the Year, and he led Real to 19 domestic titles, including 6 Spanish League crowns.
- Last December in Munich, Real beat Bayern 64-68 with Walter Tavares collecting 14 points, 8 rebounds and tying a club record and a career-high with 6 blocks.
- In January 2021 when Real pulled out a 76-81 overtime win in Munich, it was behind a career-high 26 points from Walter Tavares on a career-best 11 two-point shots made.
- In their lone meeting in the 2019-20 season, a 95-86 Bayern victory in Munich, Bayern made a club record 32 two-pointers.
- Real's single-game record for steals by a player is 6, which Gustavo Ayon tied against FC Bayern Munich on December 11, 2015.
- Bayern big man Serge Ibaka made his EuroLeague debut with Real Madrid in the first part of the 2011-12 season.
- Ibaka was a teammate of Real's Rudy Fernandez, Sergio Rodriguez and Sergio Llull with the Spanish national team. Together they won silver medals at the 2012 Olympics in London.
- Bayern's Sylvain Francisco was a teammate of Real's Guerschon Yabusele on the French national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Bayern's Leandro Bolmaro and Real Madrid duo of Gabriel Deck and Facundo Campazzo have been teammates on the Argentine national team.
- Real guard Fabien Causeur was a teammate of Elias Harris at Brose Bamberg during the 2016-17 season.
- Bayern's Andreas Obst tied a career-high and a Bayern club record with 7 three-pointers made in Bayern's 79-67 road loss against Real last April.
- Real center Vincent Poirier posted his career-high with 24 points playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Bayern in October 2018.

























































































