The first-year player went off for 28 points against ALBA Berlin
Panathinaikos clinched home-court advantage thanks to Nunn’s big night
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Thursday’s game was not going the way the majority of Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens fans might have expected. ALBA Berlin started strong and took a 17-23 cushion into the second quarter, where the hosts bounced back and secured a narrow 38-37 lead at halftime. Enter Kendrick Nunn, with the Panathinaikos guard scoring a season-high 28 points to lead his team to an 84-75 victory that allowed them to clinch second place and secure home-court advantage.
Nunn struggled in the first half too, having recorded 5 points across the first two quarters. “We had a slow first half, not playing our basketball,” he said in the post-game interview. “We wanted to come into the second half and get it done.”
And that's exactly what he did. Nunn stepped up his game and scored 12 of his team’s 22 points in the third quarter. Yet, ALBA went on a 0-9 run to take a 60-63 lead into the closing quarter.
Then Nunn came to the fore again and netted 11 points, including a couple of big triples to seal the victory for the hosts. The Panathinaikos guard went 6-for-9 from inside the arc and 5-for-8 from deep, scoring half of Panathinaikos’s 46 points after the break. He also recorded 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals for a season-high PIR of 25.
However, numbers don’t matter for the former NBAer.
“The most important for me is the [team’s] record, how we do,” Nunn added. “If I’m scoring a lot of points and we lose, it means nothing.”
Just one year after finishing second-bottom in the 2022-23 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular season standings with just nine wins in 34 games, Panathinaikos secured a 23-11 record to finish second behind defending champion Real Madrid.
“We’re taking a little break from EuroLeague and going into the playoffs the following week,” Nunn noted. “We just want to get refreshed and recollect with the guys and finish the season strong. Go into the playoffs with a strong mentality.”
Having secured the second spot, Panathinaikos will face the winner of the play-in clash between the two teams that will finish seventh and eighth in the standings. Should the Greek side overcome that obstacle too, they will return to the Final Four for the first time since the 2011-12 season. And in Nunn, they have a star who can make sure fans have something to celebrate at the end of the playoffs.
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