We have an all-Spanish-League 7DAYS EuroCup Semifinal in which both teams look for their second-ever appearance in the final. Gran Canaria (17-3) comes into this game with the best record in the competition and has the home-court advantage against Joventut Badalona (15-5), which won the competition in 2008.
Another semifinal
Joventut will compete in the EuroCup Semifinals for the third time in club history. It reached this far in the competition's original season, 2002-03, when it took a 13-point lead in the first leg of a two-game, total-points series against Krka Novo Mesto. An 82-66 road loss prevented the team from reaching the finals. Joventut was back in the semis in 2008 and beat Galatasaray Istanbul 90-83 behind 27 points from Rudy Fernandez. It went on to beat Akasavyu Girona 79-54 and lift the trophy. Pau Ribas, who is currently injured, was with the squad in 2008.
Gran Canaria has been to three semifinals already and won one of them. In 2015, Gran Canaria swept UNICS Kazan in the two-game semifinals and lost to Khimki Moscow Region in the finals. A year later, Gran Canaria lost against Galatasaray on point difference, 169-170, after missing the final shot. Gran Canaria played a third semifinal in 2021, in a best-of-three playoff format, and was swept by AS Monaco. Both Galatasaray and Monaco went on to lift the trophy.