Two teams aiming to bounce back from bad losses go head to head as Milan (9-13) tests Barcelona’s (15-7) fragile record on the road.
Game Notes: Milan vs. Barcelona



Milan became the only visiting team to win at Palau Blaugrana in December, with 21 points from Devon Hall inspiring an 86-90 triumph. Barca has lost six of its last eight road games, most recently getting pumped 98-74 at Efes last week despite 18 points from Willy Hernangomez. Inconsistent Milan is also coming off a damaging loss, suffering a late collapse to lose 84-72 at Valencia. That game featured the debut of new signing Rodney McGruder and the veteran guard will look to impose himself on Tomas Satoransky on Friday.
- In Round 14, Milan won in Barcelona 86-90 with Devon Hall scoring a career-high 21 points and Shavon Shields scoring 19 while tying his career high with 5 triples made.
- In that Round 14 win, Milan guard Diego Flaccadori had career-highs in points (15) and PIR (15).
- In the 2021 Final Four semifinals, Barcelona edged Milan 84-82 on a Cory Higgins jumper with 0.8 seconds on the clock.
- Milan set a club record with 21 steals against FC Barcelona in December 2005.
- Milan forward Nikola Mirotic spent the last four seasons at Barcelona and helped the team reach the last three EuroLeague Final Fours.
- Mirotic and Barcelona center Willy Hernangomez were teammates at Real Madrid during the 2012-13 season. They reached the 2013 championship game together. The two were also teammates on the Spanish national team with which they won the gold medal at EuroBasket 2015 and bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.
- Barcelona's Alex Abrines also won the 2016 Olympic bronze alongside Mirotic and Hernangomez.
- Barcelona guard Nicolas Laprovittola was a teammate of Milan big man Johannes Voigtmann at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz during the second part of the 2016-17 season.
- Voigtmann made a career-best 6 three-pointers playing for CSKA Moscow against Barcelona in November 2021 and matched his career high with 3 steals playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Barcelona in February 2019.
- Barcelona forward Oscar da Silva and Milan guard Maodo Lo were teammates at ALBA Berlin during the 2021-22 season.
- Maodo Lo set his career-high with 3 steals playing for FC Bayern Munich against Barcelona in October 2018.
- Barcelona big man Jan Vesely set a career-high with 8 assists while playing for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in a 92-100 road win against Milan in March 2021. He also collected 13 points and 10 rebounds on that night.
- Milan center Kyle Hines matched his career-high with 4 steals playing for CSKA Moscow against Barcelona in October 2018.
- Milan big man Alex Poythress had a career-high 11 rebounds playing for Zenit St Petersburg against Barcelona in October 2020.
- Poythress had a career-high 3 steals playing for Zenit against Barcelona in April 2021.

























































































