League-leading Real (19-2) faces a major test from a Monaco team (10-11) clinging onto a place in the top ten after losing three of the last four.
Game Notes: Monaco vs. Madrid



Injured anchor Walter Tavares will be missed after dominating the paint with a club-record 19 rebounds in last week's overtime win over Valencia. Donatas Motiejunas will look to put his long-range scoring ability (40% for three-pointers) to good use. Real cruised at home, 91-73, when the teams met in Round 9 behind 21 points from shooting star Dzanan Musa, who has recorded double-digit scoring in six straight games.
- In Round 9, Real beat Monaco 91-73 with Vincent Poirier collecting 12 points, 11 rebounds and tying a career high with 5 blocks.
- The last time they played, Real forward Mario Hezonja scored 30 points and had career-highs of 6 assists and a PIR of 34 in a 91-95 road win.
- Last season in Madrid, Monaco registered its only victory over Real when it pulled out a 94-95 overtime decision. Mike James scored 28 points in that win.
- When these two sides met in Monaco in January 2022, Real pulled out an 84-90 double-overtime victory as Guerschon Yabusele scored 18 points and collected a career-high 10 rebounds.
- In the first EuroLeague meeting between these two clubs, Real's 94-86 win in October 2021, Monaco guard Mike James matched his career-high with 6 three-pointers made in defeat.
- James had the best three-point shooting night of his career when he made 6 of 6 triples while playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Real on April 1, 2016.
- Real and Monaco faced each other in the 1987-88 Korac Cup and Real swept the series, winning 117-81 in Madrid and 84-87 in the return leg in Monaco.
- Monaco's Petr Cornelie helped Real win the 2023 EuroLeague title last season.
- Real Madrid forward Guerschon Yabusele was a teammate of Monaco's Matthew Strazel at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne during the 2019-20 and 2021-22 seasons.
- Monaco's Terry Tarpey, Elie Okobo and Yakuba Ouattara were teammates with Real's Guerschon Yabusele on the French national team at the 2023 World Cup.
- Okobo and Tarpey were teammates of Yabusele and Vincent Poirier on the French national team at EuroBasket 2022, winning a silver medal together.
- Jordan Loyd and Alberto Abalde were teammates at Valencia Basket during the 2019-20 season.
- Monaco's John Brown and Real's Hezonja were teammates at UNICS Kazan the season before last.
- Monaco's James and Real Madrid's Fabien Causeur were teammates at Baskonia for a season and a half, from 2014 to 2016. They helped the team reach the 2016 EuroLeague Final Four.
- James twice pulled down a career-high 8 defensive rebounds against Real, first for Panathinaikos Athens in April 2018 and later for Milan in March 2019.
- Monaco's Alpha Diallo posted his career high with 4 steals in a home loss against Real in January 2022.







































































































