Barcelona (19-9) will attempt to protect second place with a visit from a Partizan team (13-15) looking to end a run of eight straight road losses to the hosts.
Game Notes: Barcelona vs. Partizan



Former Partizan hero Jan Vesely has been unstoppable for Barca recently, averaging 16.8 points in the last four games and making 29 of his 34 two-point attempts in the process. The task of containing him will fall to Frank Kaminsky and Bruno Caboclo, who had 13 points and 5 rebounds in last week's painful loss at Milan. In the backcourt, Aleksa Avramovic has emerged as Partizan's leader with at least 16 points in three of the last four games, while the Serbian team will be more than familiar with threat of Nico Laprovittola after he netted 20 points on 6-for-10 three-point shooting when Barca won 83-92 in Belgrade in October.
- Barcelona has won eight straight games against Partizan. Partizan last beat Barcelona in February 2010.
- This is a rivalry that dates back to 1982 and the only win for Partizan in Barcelona came in 1987.
- Barcelona center Jan Vesely made his EuroLeague debut with Partizan, spent three seasons there and helped the team reach the 2010 EuroLeague Final Four.
- Barcelona's Vesely and Nikola Kalinic were teammates with Partizan swingman James Nunnally at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul for two stints, from 2016 to 2018, and again in the 2019-20 season. They won the 2017 EuroLeague together. All of that time they were coached by current Partizan head coach Zeljko Obradovic.
- Partizan forward Tristan Vukcevic and Barcelona guard Nicolas Laprovittola were teammates at Real Madrid during the 2020-21 season.
- Partizan's Aleksa Avramovic and Barcelona's Dario Brizuela were teammates at Unicaja Malaga for the first part of the 2019-20 season.
- Barcelona forward Oscar da Silva and Partizan guard Jaleen Smith were teammates at ALBA Berlin in the 2021-22 season.
- Partizan guards Danilo Andjusic and Ognjen Jaramaz have been teammates of Barcelona's Nikola Kalinic on the Serbian national team.
- Andjusic set his career-highs in PIR (28) and scoring (23) in a 79-68 road loss against Barcelona last season.
- Barcelona big man Oscar da Silva collected a career-high 10 rebounds in a home win against Partizan last season.

























































































