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Ajinca hits a tough buzzer-beating triple to end the third quarter and silence Belgrade Arena

Ajinca's buzzer-beater! Motorola Magic Moment 

 Ajinca hits a tough buzzer-beating triple to end the third quarter and silence Belgrade Arena

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Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens left no doubt about its power by thrashing EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 103-74 at OAKA Altion in Round 16 on Tuesday. 


Nunn's 39 points leads Panathinaikos past Milan, 103-74!

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens left no doubt about its power by thrashing EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 103-74 at OAKA Altion in Round 16 on Tuesday. Both teams now have 9-7 records in the standings. The result also  put an end to Milan's six-game winning streak. 

Kendrick Nunn paced the winners with a career-high and EuroLeague season-high 39 points. He set a EuroLeague record with 7 three-pointer in the first quarter. Jerian Grant added 12 points for Panathinaikos. Nikola Mirotic led Milan with 16 points. Neno Dimitrijevic added 15 while Nico Mannion and Shavon Shields each had 11 for the visitors.

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Juancho Hernangomez got Panathinaikos going with a layup and Grant scored twice in a 14-0 game-opening run highlighted by Nunn's ankle-breaking three-pointers, which sent Giampaolo Ricci and then Shields to the ground. Mirotic stepped up with a put-back layup that Nunn bettered with a bomb from downtown. Hernangomez took over with a put-back dunk and Panagiotis Kalaitzakis added a fastbreak basket that broke the game open, 21-4. Mirotic struck from downtown but an unstoppable Nunn buried three more shots from beyond the arc for a 33-9 score. Fabien Causeur joined the three-point shootout, Grant scored in penetration and Nunn sank his record-setting seventh triple. Dimitrijevic made a three to fix the score at 38-15 after 10 minutes.

Dimitrijevic kept pushing Milan early in the second quarter. Grant and Konstantinos Mitoglou each answered from beyond the arc for a 44-19 Panathinaikos cushion. Omer Yurtseven followed an alley-oop slam with a put-back layup and Cedi Osman nailed an off-balance shot that made it 50-21. Yurtseven added a jump hook, Mitoglou scored a fastbreak layup and Nunn boosted the lead to 56-24. Freddie Gillespie made a jump hook and Mannion added a floater for Milan. Nunn scored again and then Mannion and Shields each made a triple to get the visitors within 59-36. After Kostas Sloukas buried a three-pointer, Mirotic answered with a tip-in. Shields's buzzer-beating layup fixed the halftime score at 62-40.

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Zach Leday took over with a power layup soon after the break. Nunn sank a mid-range jumper and Kalaitzakis added a corner triple for a 67-42 Panathinaikos margin. Mirotic answered from downtown, Nunn scored in the low post, then Mannion got Milan a bit closer, 69-48. Shields beat the shot clock with a jump hook and erased Lorenzo Brown's acrobatic shot with a driving layup. Mirotic stepped up with a fastbreak layup and Dimitrijevic swished a jumper that gave Milan hope at 74-56. Mathias Lessort stepped up for the Greens and Grant hit a high-arching three-pointer for a 79-58 Panathinaikos lead. Leday's poster dunk got the visitors within 79-60 after 30 minutes.

Nunn sank his eighth three-pointer early in the fourth quarter. Mitoglou also struck from beyond the arc to seal the outcome, 85-60. Nunn and Mannion exchanged floaters, then Sloukas took over with back-to-back three-pointers, as thousands of Panathinaikos fans sang Nunn's name out loud. Panathinaikos started to use longer possessions to run the game clock down. Yurtseven finished one of those with a three-pointer, Mirotic scored in penetration and Nunn gave the Greens a 99-66 lead with 2:40 left. Lessort put the Greens over the 100-point mark and Nunn rounded out a near-perfect performance in style with another jumper.

Nunn set a EuroLeague record with 7 three-pointers in the first quarter

Nunn's 39 points leads Panathinaikos past Milan, 103-74

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AS Monaco Basket head coach Vassilis Spanoulis spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat FC Bayern Basketball in Round 16 of the 2024-25 EuroLeague season.

Vassilis Spanoulis: 'Every time, we are better and better'

AS Monaco head coach Vassilis Spanoulis spoke to EuroLeague TV after his team beat FC Bayern Munich in Round 16 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

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Andres Feliz drives to the basket, but Hayes rejects him with a chase-back block!

Hayes’s block on Feliz! Motorola Magic Moment

 Andres Feliz drives to the basket, but Hayes rejects him with a chase-back block!

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AS Monaco overcame a double-digit first-half deficit then used a big third quarter en route to a 93-74 win over visiting FC Bayern Munich on Tuesday night

Monaco eases past Bayern, 93-74

AS Monaco overcame a double-digit first-half deficit then used a big third quarter en route to a 93-74 win over visiting FC Bayern Munich on Tuesday night. Monaco won its third straight game and improved to 11-5. For Bayern, which dropped to 10-6, this was its fourth consecutive road loss.

Bayern led by 11 points at the start of the second quarter, but Monaco turned the game around before using a 20-5 run in the third to pull away for good. Georgios Papagiannis paced Monaco with 14 points, Mike James scored 13, Matthew Strazel and Jordan Loyd had 11 apiece, and Elie Okobo 10 points in the win. Carsen Edwards had 17 points for the visitors, Johannes Voigtmann 13 and Danko Brankovic 11 points in defeat.

Motiejunas scored twice from close range and James had a three-pointer to give the hosts an early 9-4 lead, but Brankovic made a three-point play and Edwards a three-pointer. After another basket from Motiejunas, that got his tally to 8 points, Bayern went on a 0-10 run with Nick Weiler-Babb and Devin Booker scoring easy fastbreak baskets and Giffey adding a tough jumper to help open a 13-20 lead. A triple from Voigtmann extended the margin, but Papagiannis had a three-point play that helped make it 18-24 at the end of one.

Voigtmann scored inside and another one from the outside to lead 18-29 after 42 seconds of the second quarter, but Papagiannis scored 5 points, including a triple, and Blossomgame scored to close to 25-29. Monaco's charge continued with 5 points from Okobo and another basket from Papagiannis to get the hosts in front 32-31. Weiler-Babb snapped a 14-2 spurt with a triple, but Jordan Loyd and Mathew Strazel, the latter with a three-pointer, got Monaco to a 42-34 lead. Edwards ended Bayern's drought, but the hosts remained in front and held a 46-40 cushion at halftime.

Loyd and Motiejunas scored early for Monaco, but Brankovic had a basket inside and Edwards a pair of three-pointers that got the visitors within 52-51. But James answered with a triple, and Tarpey finished a pair of fast breaks to open a 59-51 lead. Voigtmann snapped a 7-0 run with a triple but Blossomgame and Jaiteh kept the hosts at a safe distance, before a three-point play from Okobo opened a double-digit lead. James's triple helped extend it to 72-56 in the penultimate minute of the third quarter. Thanks to a Strazel triple, Monaco took a 77-60 advantage into the final quarter.

Strazel and Okobo each had a baseline basket to help open an 83-62 lead and Loyd's three-pointer made it 91-65. Onuralp Bitim had a pair of three-pointers for the visitors, as the rhythm slowed down and Monaco cruised to a big win.

Coach Spanoulis's side has won its last three games by a combined margin of 69 points!

Alexandros Samodurov stops Freddie Gillespie with a sensational block!!!

Samodurov's big block! Motorola Magic Moment

 Alexandros Samodurov stops Freddie Gillespie with a sensational block!!!

Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz used a 0-10 run to close the first quarter and never looked back en route to an 85-95 victory over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv on Tuesday night at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade. 

Howard propels Baskonia to road victory, 85-95, over Maccabi 

Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz used a 0-10 run to close the first quarter and never looked back en route to an 85-95 victory over Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv on Tuesday night at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall in Belgrade. The winners outrebounded Maccabi 25-40 and shot 12 for 26 from downtown (46.2%) in two of the keys to the victory that lifted Baskonia’s record to 7-9, while dropping Maccabi to 4-12. 

Markus Howard led the way with 28 points on 6-of-9 three-point shooting and Chima Moneke tallied 17 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists to lead Baskonia. Tadas Sedekerskis posted 12 points and 9 rebounds, Nikos Rogkavopoulos added 11 and 7 and Donta Hall scored 10 for the winners. Rokas Jokubaitis paced Maccabi with 22 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Roman Sorkin also scored 22, Tamir Blatt amassed 14 points and 7 assists and Jaylen Hoard scored 14, too.

Little separated the teams in the early going with Hoard and Moneke leading their respective sides. Blatt stepped up with back-to-back three-pointers to give Maccabi a 15-10 lead. Wenyen Gabriel had to leave the game early to receive stitches on a cut on his hand and would not return. Hall came alive with 5 quick points for Baskonia to even things. Sorkin made an impact off the bench for Maccabi though Howard’s hot shooting kept the teams square, 21-21. A triple by Kamar Baldwin nudged Baskonia in front and then Rogkavopoulos heated up. Howard drained a triple to cap a 0-10 Baskonia run to lead 23-34 after 10 minutes.

More threes by Rogkavopoulos and Howard extended the margin to 15 points just 90 seconds into the second quarter. Sedekerskis joined the three-point shootout to make it 27-43. Baskonia had made 8 of 10 three-pointers to this point, while Maccabi was 2 of 8 from behind the arc. Led by Jokubaitis and Sorkin, Maccabi chipped away at the deficit, but Sedekerskis and co. remained comfortably ahead. Blatt narrowed the gap to 10, but Baskonia pulled away again as Sander Raiste connected from deep. A free throw by Sorkin made it 43-57 at the break.

Jokubaitis shined early in the second half with a layup and an assist to Hoard for a slam, but Baskonia seemed to have an answer for nearly every basket. After Sedekerskis made an uncontested fastbreak dunk for a 50-65 lead, Sorkin helped Maccabi to a 6-0 spurt, which resulted in a Baskonia timeout. The visitors quickly regrouped behind Moneke and Howard and stretched the lead to 17 on a Sedekerskis free throw. Marial Shayok made it 60-75 at the end of the quarter.

A triple by Blatt to start the fourth quarter was not a sign of things to come for Maccabi. Howard and Moneke kept Baskonia cruising. Khalifa Diop threw down a monster fastbreak slam and Howard’s sixth three-pointer took the lead to a game-high 19 points. A late flurry of points from Jokubaitis got Maccabi within 10 in the penultimate minute of the game, but that was as close as it would get as Baskonia preserved the victory.

Baskonia dominated the glass and shot well from deep to win in Belgrade 

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 Jabari Parker with a big dunk! Motorola Magic Moment 

 Satoransky racks up the offensive board and feeds Parker for a huge slam!

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Zach Leday beats Dinos Mitoglou's defense with a huge poster dunk!

LeDay's poster dunk! Motorola Magic Moment

 Zach Leday beats Dinos Mitoglou's defense with a huge poster dunk!

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A no-look alley-oop pass from Washington for Tyrique Jones to smash it through the rim.

Washington's no-look alley-oop pass! Motorola Magic Moment

 A no-look alley-oop pass from Washington for Tyrique Jones to smash it through the rim.

Balsa Koprivica with a monster block at the rim.

 Balsa's big block! Motorola Magic Moment

 Balsa Koprivica with a monster block at the rim.

Hayes pulls up for a hook basket but Tavares rejects him with force!

Tavares rejects Hayes! Motorola Magic Moment

 Hayes pulls up for a hook basket but Tavares rejects him with force!

Roman Sorkin drives from the top of the key for a dunk – and one

Roman Sorkin drives for a dunk! Motorola Magic Moment

 Roman Sorkin drives from the top of the key for a dunk – and one

Kendrick Nunn sends Shavon Shields to the floor and buries a three-pointer - two ankle-breakers in four minutes, unthinkable!

Nunn with another ankle-breaker! Motorola Magic Moment

 Kendrick Nunn sends Shavon Shields to the floor and buries a three-pointer - two ankle-breakers in four minutes, unthinkable!

Derek Ogbeide uses a spin to evade his defender before unleashing a left-handed hammer slam.

Ogbeide with the spin and slam! Magic Moment of the Night

 Derek Ogbeide uses a spin to evade his defender before unleashing a left-handed hammer slam.