Look back at all the action in Round 16 of the 2025-26 BKT EuroCup season by checking out the best photos of the week! 

Top 10 photos from Round 16

Look back at all the action from Round 16 of the 2025-26 BKT EuroCup season by checking out the best photos of the week! 

The London Lions may have missed out on the BKT EuroCup Playoffs, but Great Britain international Deane Williams feels the club finds itself in a good position – as does British basketball.

London big man Deane Williams: Lions, GB Basketball in a good place 

The [London Lions](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/teams/london-lions/lli/) may have missed out on the BKT EuroCup Playoffs, but Great Britain international [Deane Williams](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/deane-williams/014098/) feels the club finds itself in a good position – as does British basketball.

Williams is playing professionally in his homeland for the first time, and the forward has excelled in his opening campaign in the EuroCup, averaging 8.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.1. blocks through the first 16 rounds.

Being out of playoff contention stings for Williams because of the 'what if' element.

“It's disappointing that we're out of the playoffs, but I think what's probably more disappointing is the fact that we didn't actually get a real chance to see how far we could go or what kind of potential we had as a collective unit,” Williams told David Hein. “Guys were injured one week, and then they would come back, and then another person would go out, and it's just been this constant cycle of guys coming in and going out. So that's what we're most bummed about.”

The top plays of London Lions forward Deane Williams through the first 16 rounds of the 2025-26 BKT EuroCup season.

Deane Williams's best plays in 2025-26

Williams was actually a beneficiary of an injury himself as his production has taken a big jump since Round 8 after [Joel Scott](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/joel-scott/014095/) picked up a knock. Williams’s highest scoring output through the first eight games was 8 points, and since Round 9 he has averaged 11.9 points while playing at least 21 minutes in each game.

“At that point, it was either step up or maybe they'll get someone to come in for his place. So I just saw an opportunity to show what I was capable of, and the consistency has followed,” the 2.03-meter forward said. “The coach gave me a lot of confidence just to go out there and shoot my shots and play my game within the team's game.”

Williams said it feels great being able to show what he can do.

“It's not all down to scoring points or stat lines and stuff like that, but it just felt like I was making an impact every game. So it's nice to have that feeling, have the confidence from your teammates, from your coaches, day in, day out. It's definitely a wake-up call for me to stay on that path and continue to show what I'm capable of,” the 29-year-old said.

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Williams arrived in London after an adventurous last season in which he played for three different teams in three different countries, starting with GeVi Napoli in Italy before moving to Ludwigsburg in Germany and finishing the campaign with Anwil Wloclawek in Poland.

“During that year, I just learned to take control of my situation and don't let others kind of dictate what I'm going to do with my journey,” he said.

Williams’s professional journey started in Iceland with Keflavik for two seasons and then Saint-Quentin in the French second division in 2021-22. He then moved to Germany, where he had his first taste of real success as Telekom Baskets Bonn won the Basketball Champions League and reached the Finals of the German League.

“Lifting the trophy was one thing, but I think my favorite memory was the collective group that lifted the trophy,” he said. “That feeling in the moment of winning was unmatched.”

Williams after last season decided it was time to give basketball in his homeland a chance as he signed with the London Lions. It was the first time he would be playing basketball in front of his friends and family since before he went to college in the United States in 2015.

“It's definitely something that I was always wishing I could do. When you're in Germany, in France, in Italy, you look at the guys and their locals there; they're speaking their local language and they're familiar with their surroundings and so on and so forth. They're living a good life. You kind of think to yourself, 'I wish I could do that,'” he said.

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Williams is thankful to be back home, seeing his family and friends at games and doing his part to push the game in the country.

“When you tell people from England that you're a professional basketball player, they kind of look at you a bit funny and think, 'What does that look like'? Being able to come home and invite people to games at the Copper Box, it’s special because you know it opens their mind and maybe that person goes and tells another friend and that's how you know the game is growing over here.”

London’s biggest basketball moment came in 2023-24 when the team reached the EuroCup Semifinals, where it lost to Paris Basketball – ironically a major portion of the Paris team was the same one that played with Williams at Bonn the previous season.

Even though this season has not gone as hoped in the EuroCup, London has put together a strong roster for this season and picked up some good wins, the biggest being a 98-96 victory over Besiktas GAIN Istanbul at home in Round 11.

All that leads Williams to be optimistic about the state of the club and basketball in the country.

“I think it's in a good place at the moment. It's something that needs to be taken more seriously. There's a lot of hidden talent in the UK,” he said. “I think the exposure that we're getting as an organization is bringing attention to the struggles we're having as a country as a whole in terms of basketball representation. But it's in a good place and it's only going to continue to get better.”

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He is playing professionally in his homeland of England for the first time this season

Malachi Flynn got the first game-winner of his BKT EuroCup career in Round 16, leading Bahcesehir College Istanbul to a last-second win over Aris Thessaloniki Betsson and taking home the MVP of the Round award in the process.

Round 16 MVP: Malachi Flynn, Bahcesehir College Istanbul

[Malachi Flynn](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/malachi-flynn/013908/) got the first game-winner of his BKT EuroCup career in Round 16, leading [Bahcesehir College Istanbul](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/teams/bahcesehir-college-istanbul/bah/) to [a last-second win over Aris Thessaloniki Betsson](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/news/bahcesehir-rallies-to-beat-aris-in-final-second/) and taking home the MVP of the Round award in the process.

His career-high 35 PIR – the highest of any player in Round 16 – exemplified the type of impact Flynn had on the victory, with Bahcesehir remaining second in Group A, hot on the heels of first-placed Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem. He finished with 19 points on efficient shooting, going 4-for-5 inside the arc, 2-for-4 from deep and 5-for-6 from the line, while he tied his career high with 7 rebounds, dished 6 assists, had 3 steals and drew 7 fouls, as the Aris players struggled to keep him under wraps. This is the first time in his 16-game EuroCup career that he has earned MVP of the Round honors.

[Mitch Creek](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/mitchell-creek/013927/) of U-BT Cluj-Napoca had the second-best index rating in this round, posting a 34 PIR in his team’s 101-99 defeat at BAI Manresa. The Australian forward shot a perfect 11-for-11 on two-pointers and 5-for-7 on free throws en route to 27 points, in addition to recording 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 6 fouls drawn.

Rounding out the list of top performers in Round 16 are three players who finished with a 33 PIR: [Devon Daniels](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/devon-daniels-iv/014172/) of Veolia Towers Hamburg, [Rihards Lomazs](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/rihards-lomazs/005553/) of Neptunas Klaipeda, and [Retin Obasohan](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/retin-obasohan/011938/) of Manresa.

Daniels erupted for 26 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals as Hamburg downed Slask Wroclaw 99-96 to record back-to-back wins for the first time this season. Lomazs had a similarly impressive performance, amassing 31 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 6 fouls drawn in Neptunas’s 98-92 win over Jerusalem. Obasohan played in the final game of Round 16 and put on a clinic, pouring in a career-high 29 points, grabbing 3 rebounds, making 4 assists and drawing 14 fouls, which tied a EuroCup record, as Manresa defeated Cluj.

### Individual highs: Fardaws Aimaq, Lietkabelis, 15 rebounds

Rihards Lomazs led all scorers in Round 16 by netting 31 points. Cluj star Fatts Russell remains the leading scorer in the EuroCup with 20.8 points per game.

Fardaws Aimaq of Lietkabelis Panevezys grabbed a round-high 15 rebounds this week. Jerusalem’s Austin Wiley tops the rebounding charts with 8.8 boards per night.

Arnas Velicka of Neptunas provided 12 assists in this round, more than anybody else. He is also first in assists in the EuroCup, averaging 7.7 dimes per contest.

Kadre Gray of Slask had a career-high 5 steals in Round 16, the most of any player. Turk Telekom Ankara ballhawk Dogus Ozdemiroglu is the competition leader in this category with 2.1 steals per game.

Two players – Ismael Kamagate of Besiktas GAIN Istanbul and Dusan Miletic of Cluj – had a round-high 3 blocks. High-flying Manresa center Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu leads the way in blocks this season with an average of 1.7 rejections per night.

Five players recorded a double-double in Round 16: Kadre Gray (22 points, 10 assists), Dogus Ozdemiroglu (22 points, 11 rebounds), Arnas Velicka (16 points, 12 assists), NINERS Chemnitz’s Kevin Yebo (15 points, 10 rebounds), and Dolomiti Energia Trento’s Andrej Jakimovski (15 points, 10 rebounds).

He secured the first MVP of the Round honor of his career

BAXI Manresa had to dig deep on Wednesday night, overturning a disastrous start and a 17-point first-quarter deficit to secure a dramatic 101–99 home victory over U-BT Cluj-Napoca — and with it, a berth in the BKT EuroCup playoffs. 

Manresa survives Cluj to clinch playoff berth

BAXI Manresa had to dig deep on Wednesday night, overturning a disastrous start and a 17-point first-quarter deficit to secure a dramatic 101–99 home victory over U-BT Cluj-Napoca — and with it, a berth in the BKT EuroCup playoffs. The game slipped from their hands more than once, but the Catalans found a way when it mattered most.

“We didn't manage to finish the game. We had it in our hands, but we didn't manage to finish. We could have made better decisions, obviously, but it is what it is. This is basketball,” said Cluj head coach Mihai Silvășan, summing up his team’s heartbreak perfectly.

With just 33 seconds remaining, the Romanian side led 97–99 after Mitchell Creek completed a four-point play and Fatts Russell sank 2 free throws. But Manresa still had one final punch to throw.

From an inbounds play, Ferran Bassas found Louis Olinde, who drew an unsportsmanlike foul and converted 1 of his 2 attempts. That set the stage for Retin Obasohan, who had been carrying Manresa all night after a scoreless opening quarter in which Cluj raced ahead 7–24.

Obasohan, unstoppable from that point on, closed the game with 29 points and 14 fouls drawn. With 32 seconds to go, he attacked Jeffery Taylor — already in foul trouble — and finished a spinning bank shot to give Manresa a 100–99 lead. And when Russell’s final three-point attempt missed, the Nou Congost erupted.

“Yeah, man, I guess we like to make it exciting for the fans,” he laughed on the TV broadcast right after the game. “We gotta give a lot of credit to them, man. They came in here and played with a lot of energy, they played really well.”

Manresa not only celebrated its seventh home win, but also its qualification for the EuroCup Playoffs — something that looked highly unlikely early on.

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“Our team was able to play for 40 minutes. We didn't have the greatest start, but we were able to fight back and get the win,” Obasohan reflected. His season-best performance — 29 points, 32 PIR — was capped by the decisive shot, a fitting reward for his relentless energy.

“At the end of the day, you know me, I just want to come out here and compete every single second I’m on the court and off the court,” he added. “I think we do a really great job as a team just stepping up. There are a lot of people who stepped up today in a variety of ways, and that’s what makes us special.”

With playoff qualification now secured, Manresa can turn its focus to fighting for a coveted top-2 finish that would grant direct access to the quarterfinals. Head coach Diego Ocampo, however, preferred to keep his players grounded.

“It’s just about going day by day and not thinking too much,” he insisted. “Just think about tomorrow’s practice and our next game. This is our life, and we need to do it the same way. We have to keep improving, practice, watch video, and stay focused. It’s only about improvement for me.”

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The Spanish side battled back from 17 points down and sealed the win in the final seconds to punch their ticket to the next round

BAXI Manresa v U-BT Cluj-Napoca (2026-01-28T19:45:00.000Z)

Veolia Towers Hamburg earned its second BKT EuroCup win by beating Slask Wroclaw 99–96. Devon Daniels posted a career‑high 26 points and 8 assists, while strong shooting and bench contributions lifted the home side.


Hamburg holds off Slask to keep momentum rolling at home

Veolia Towers Hamburg delighted its fans with a 99-96 home win over Slask Wroclaw on Wednesday night, picking up the team's second victory of the season.

Building on last week’s first BKT EuroCup win against Umana Reyer Venice and two straight victories in the German league, Hamburg carried that energy into Wednesday night, finding easy scoring opportunities and posting its highest-scoring game of the season.

Devon Daniels proved a steady force for the German side, fueling Hamburg’s second-half push and keeping the offense flowing. The American guard finished with a career-high 26 points and 8 assists, setting the tone down the stretch.

‘‘I think what made it a tough game is we had some lapses on defense. And I feel like our intensity was up and down, down throughout the game, but once we got our intensity at a steady pace and our pace fast, I think we were alright,’’ said Daniels after the game.

Hamburg got off to a confident start, capitalizing on transition opportunities and scoring efficiently in the paint, shooting 64% on two-pointers in the first half. Despite Slask cutting into the lead in the second half, Hamburg’s bench contributions helped the home team hold on for the win.

One of the keys to Hamburg’s win was outperforming its season averages. The home side shot 53.2% on two-pointers and 40% from beyond the arc, both well above its usual marks. Rebounding also stood out, with Hamburg grabbing 40 boards, while keeping turnovers under control at 11, below its season average of 15.3.

‘‘I think for stretches we played very well, not for the whole game,’’ Coach Benka Barloschky said after the game. ‘‘I wasn't really satisfied with our defensive performance tonight, in general. I think it took us, or we had too many stretches in the game, for minutes actually, where we just exchanged baskets with them, and that's not the way we want to play… In the end, again, I have to say we made big plays, made winning plays.’’

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Leonard Thorpe stood out for Hamburg in the first half, contributing 14 points and 8 assists. Ross Williams, who struggled to score early, found his rhythm in the second half, hitting 3 triples and finishing with 9 points. Zacharie Perrin was effective in the paint, ending the game with 13 points and 8 rebounds.

Slask struggled to contain Hamburg’s transition game and missed many of the open shots throughout the game. The Polish side tried to turn the game around in the second half, with Kadre Gray standing out with 22 points and 10 assists, Issuf Sanon adding 17 points and 6 assists, and Stefan Dordevic chipping in 16 points, but it wasn’t enough.

‘‘Since day one, when we started to play in EuroCup and now, we are like growing up like a team, like a person in basketball-wise, I don’t know… But it's not good enough. We know how to play, nothing changed. We don't know how to win,’’ said Coach Ainars Bagatskis in the post-game press conference.

Devon Daniels delivers a career high 26 points and 8 assists as Hamburg posts its highest scoring game of the season

Veolia Towers Hamburg v Slask Wroclaw (2026-01-28T18:30:00.000Z)

Umana Reyer Venice beat Cedevita Olimpija 86–84 after Kyle Wiltjer’s decisive basket in the final seconds, boosting its playoff hopes in EuroCup Round 16.


End of quarter plays define Reyer’s comeback win against Cedevita

Umana Reyer Venice had to battle until the final second to edge Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 86–84 at home in Round 16, a result that dramatically increases Reyer’s chances of qualifying for the playoffs. Cedevita had already punched its ticket, and it led most of the way, but Reyer found enough defense, physicality and poise to flip the momentum at the end of each quarter and close it with Kyle Wiltjer’s decisive basket with 3.2 seconds left, followed by a contested stop on [Matthew Hurt](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/matthew-hurt/014222/)’s potential winner.

The first quarter belonged to the visitors. After a wild four‑point play by [Jordan Parks](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/jordan-parks/011909/), [Alessandro Lever](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/alessandro-lever/006571/) missed a wide‑open dunk at the horn to punctuate Reyer’s struggles, and Cedevita led 19–29 after 10 minutes, dominating almost every aspect of the game. It buried 7 of 9 two‑pointers and 4 of 6 threes, dished 8 assists against just 2 turnovers, while Reyer made only 5 of 17 two‑point shots. When Aleksej Nikolic and Jaka Blazic struck from downtown, it was 19–35.

Reyer steadied itself in the second quarter. The defense tightened, the glass evened up, and the hosts finished the half with an exclamation point as [RJ Cole](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/rj-cole/013929/) found Parks for a huge dunk to bring it within 41–46. In the period, Reyer made 8 of 12 two‑pointers, grabbed 10 rebounds, and forced 4 Cedevita turnovers.

“We have to continue with the same aggressiveness. We had problems to adjust at the beginning of the game and now, it is a two‑possession game,” head coach Neven Spahija said at halftime.

[Kyle Wiltjer](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/kyle-wiltjer/008052/) gave the arena a jolt at the end of the third, drilling a wild three‑pointer from beyond midcourt. Despite being outrebounded 5–10 in the quarter, Reyer found answers from deep, making 4 of 6 threes, and its defense stayed strong, forcing 4 more turnovers to keep the game within reach.

As expected, it all came down to the final plays. [DJ Stewart](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/dj-stewart/012700/)’s bomb put Cedevita up 79–80, [Carl Wheatle ](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/carl-wheatle/013305/)answered from beyond the arc, and Hurt tied it at 82–82 from the foul line. Parks hit free throws, only for [Umoja Gibson](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/umoja-gibson/013855/) to bury a step‑back jumper for an 84–84 tie with 8.3 seconds left. Reyer called a timeout and put the ball in Wiltjer’s hands; the Canadian took Hurt one‑on‑one to score in the paint with 3.2 seconds remaining. Cedevita advanced the ball, and Hurt’s potentially game‑winning three, contested by Wiltjer, missed at the buzzer.

In short, Reyer lacked consistency and focus early; physicality and defense brought it back; and inspiration — plus a little luck with Wiltjer’s midcourt prayer — carried it through the finish.

<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">KYLE WILTJER CALLED THE GAME 😱😱😱😱<a href="https://twitter.com/REYER1872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@REYER1872</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoadToGreatness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RoadToGreatness</a> <a href="https://t.co/65XsG2tWdb">pic.twitter.com/65XsG2tWdb</a></p>&mdash; BKT EuroCup (@EuroCup) <a href="https://twitter.com/EuroCup/status/2016619893362204752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center>

“I’m going to give credit to my team. They did really well. They fought till the end. Like I said before the game, no matter if we are short in the rotation, we’re going to give our best. Also, I’m going to give credit to Olimpija. They are a very good team. They knew what they were doing from the first second of the game. They were so physical and we responded,” Spahija said. “That’s kind of our DNA. We have to be exactly who we are, continue to believe in ourselves, work hard and believe, together with our fans.”

Parks led the way with 22 points, Wiltjer added 19 and Wheatle 12 for the winners, who were without Ky Bowman and [Chris Horton](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/chris-horton/011988/). Reyer will qualify for the next round with another win; it heads on the road to face BAXI Manresa in Round 17 and hosts Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem in Round 18. Depending on other results, it could also qualify without more wins.

“I feel great,” Parks said. “A game like that, to be able to come back and play against them. We know we took a big loss to them in Slovenia and we were able to turn around, even shorthanded, and play like a full and whole team… Everybody has to just pick up and do a little bit more. All hands on deck.”

Reyer shakes off a slow start and closes out Cedevita behind defense and a decisive Wiltjer finish

End-of-quarter plays define Reyer’s comeback win against Cedevita

Umana Reyer Venice v Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (2026-01-28T19:00:00.000Z)

Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse seems to have found its form just at the right time as it dominated a motivated ratiopharm ulm team to snap a two-game losing streak. 
Bourg dished out a club record 30 assists and manhandled Ulm’s offense for a 97-66 victory to reclaim first place in Group B with a 12-4 record. Four players scored in double figures and five more tallied at least 7 points.


Energetic Bourg finds form at perfect time as it routs Ulm

Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse seems to have found its form just at the right time as it dominated a motivated ratiopharm ulm team to snap a two-game losing streak.

Bourg dished out a club record 30 assists and manhandled Ulm’s offense for a 97-66 victory to reclaim first place in Group B with a 12-4 record. Four players scored in double figures and five more tallied at least 7 points.

“It was a very good collective victory. We were great defensively as a collective and we got what we wanted offensively, especially in the second half. We shared the ball and got out in transition,” said Bourg head coach Frederic Fauthoux.

“I have a great feeling because we played with the same energy for 40 minutes. That was the most important thing tonight. Every time someone came out the energy was the same.”

Antony Labanca hit 4 three-pointers to lead Bourg in scoring with 14 points while Darius McGhee had 13 points and 6 assists and Vincent Mitchell collected 12 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists.

“The biggest thing tonight for us was defensively: controlling the glass and getting the 50-50 balls,” Mitchell said. “That’s demoralizing for a team. We got them to turn the ball over a lot (25 turnovers). We just stayed solid on defense and played how we are supposed.”

Bourg’s defense lived up to its billing, going into the game second in opponents' scoring (75.7 ppg), fifth in opponents’ two-point shooting (51.9%) and tops in opponents’ three-point shooting (30.7%). Ulm scored only 66 points and converted only 36.4% on two-pointers and 19.4% from long range.

The victory gives Bourg back-to-back wins after beating Nancy 89-77 at home in the French League. The wins came after a combined four losses in the two competitions.

“We’ve had a couple of rough weeks, but we are starting to get back on the right foot,” Mitchell said. “We’re trying to get back to where we were. It’s getting to be around that time of the year where we need to be playing our best basketball. We faced a little bit of adversity and now we are ready to bounce back and keep it going.”

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Bourg did not wait to take control of the game with a 19-2 run over 9 minutes in which the defense did not give up a single basket for a 19-4 lead. Ulm managed to trim it to 19-9 after 10 minutes.

The guests trimmed the margin to 7 points, but Bourg extended it to 18 points at halftime, 45-27.

McGhee added 2 triples in the opening minutes of the second half and the advantage swelled to 53-27. Ulm could not get closer than 22 points the rest of the game and Bourg just kept pouring it on. 

Ulm’s run of two straight wins was snapped and the German side dropped to 7-9, putting its chances of reaching the playoffs in doubt with its final two games at home versus Buducnost VOLI Podgorica and at Dolomiti Energia Trento.

Malik Osborne was the only Ulm player to manage double figure scoring with 11 points.

“They beat us in literally every aspect of the game. I can’t think of one area where we outplayed them. I thought maybe if we started well in the third quarter we would have a chance to fight back into the game. We’ve done that earlier in the season but we couldn’t find any solutions today. Tonight just wasn’t our night,” said Ulm head coach Ty Harrelson.

Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse ended a two-game losing skid

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Panionios Cosmorama Travel Athens rallied late to defeat the London Lions 79–78 behind Matt Lewis’s clutch free throws and Brandon Taylor’s standout night. Both teams battled hard in a dramatic clash despite being out of playoff contention.

Panionios survives wild ending to defeat Lions in Athens 

Panionios Cosmorama Travel Athens edged the London Lions 79-78 after a chaotic finish at the National Athletic Center Makis Liougad, capped by Matt Lewis’s 2 free throws with one second left. The hosts forced a turnover on a late London out‑of‑bounds play to set up the winning sequence.

“It was a very tough game,” said Panionios head coach Nenad Markovic. “The Lions play good, they play tough, they’re an athletic team… We showed great spirit to try and win the game. In the end, we succeeded.”

London led early and for long stretches, but Panionios kept coming. The first half swung on intensity and errors.

“We tried to manage our offensive game to adjust to their toughness and in many situations we didn’t do it well,” Markovic admitted – before the hosts found enough stops and composure to close it out at the line.

With both teams now out of playoff contention, only pride was at stake, but that didn’t stop both teams from competing with maximum intensity. London raced off to the better start, playing hard on both ends to open up a double-digit advantage in the first quarter. Though the hosts were able to tie the game just before halftime, they somehow managed to foul twice in the space of 1 second of play, meaning that London took a 3-point lead to the locker room.

Coach Tautvydas Sabonis’s men pulled away in the third period, scoring as a team to put themselves in pole position, but this one was far from done. Late-game ejections for London’s Chaundee Brown and Panionios’s Joe Thomasson disrupted the flow of the final frame, in which Markovic’s team kept chase down the stretch. The Lions seemed to have the game won, until some shocking final plays unfolded.

After a crucial three-pointer, Panionios played smothering defense on a London out-of-bounds play, forcing a brutal turnover with 10 seconds left on the clock. Choosing not to advance the ball, the hosts stretched the Lions’ defense with their final play, creating space for an unsuccessful shot attempt. However, Lewis drew a foul on the rebound, with a second remaining and was able to keep a cool hand, sinking both at the charity stripe and completing a heartening fightback victory.

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Brandon Taylor played the starring role, adding 7 dimes and 3 steals to his difference-making 20 points. Joe Thomasson recorded 13 points before being ejected from the game. With their teams moving the ball effectively, the Greek team scored as a unit, with Jackson Kreuser scoring 12 points and Nate Watson posting 10 points and 9 rebounds.

“We have to be ready to play against a good team, learn from our mistakes because every game is a chance to get better,” Sabonis stated before the game.

Despite holding the lead for the majority of the clash, it was in fact a catastrophic error on the decisive in-bound play that gave Panionios a chance in this one.

The result was never going make a huge difference to either team’s campaign, but the hosts moved to 3-13 with the win, while London slides to 5-11 for the season.

Panionios used a furious late surge and Matt Lewis’s last second free throws to overturn the Lions’ lead and claim a dramatic 79-78 home win

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Neptunas Klaipeda kept its postseason hopes alive with a 98–92 home win over Group A leader Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem. Arnas Velicka neared a triple-double as Neptunas dominated the boards and handed Hapoel its second straight defeat.


Neptunas stuns group leader Jerusalem to keep playoff hopes alive 

Whether it reaches the postseason or not, Neptunas Klaipeda celebrated a victory that will long live in the memory of its passionate fans after the Lithuanian side overpowered Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem 98-92 to put on hold the Group A leader’s automatic quarterfinal berth.

Hapoel slipped to 12-4 after a second successive defeat, having suffered an 82-94 setback in Round 15 to Bahcesehir College Istanbul and the Turkish side is hot on the Israeli side’s heels.

Neptunas, in turn, improved to 7-9 and kepts its slim chances to earn a postseason berth alive, which they thoroughly deserved on the evidence of Wednesday night’s gritty performance.

Having led for much of the enthralling contest on the shores of Lithuania’s Baltic coast, Neptunas blew Hapoel away in the paint as it won the battle of the boards 42-25 while its versatile guard Arnas Velicka flirted with a triple-double, posting 16 points, 12 assists and 9 rebounds.

Top scorer Rihards Lomazs poured 31 points - 20 of them in the first half when Hapoel overturned a 33-25 first quarter deficit to lead 54-55 at halftime as Jared Harper and Khadeen Carrington led the visiting team’s effort on offense.

However, the tables turned again after the break as the hosts engineered an 8-0 run and never looked back, fending off every Hapoel attempt of a comeback through sheer grit and determination on defense, which compensated for a poor shooting night from long range, 7-of-26 (26.9%).

Donatas Tarolis chipped in with 15 points for Neptunas and Karlis Silins racked up 8 and 10 rebounds, but the plaudits duly went to Velicka, who produced one of his most impressive EuroCup performances against much heralded opposition.

Asked whether the thought of amassing a triple-double had flashed across his mind during the game, Velicka said in his postgame comments:

 “Not really, I thought maybe, but it’s not about that, the most important thing is that we got the win. We kept alive our hopes of getting into the second round, so I am very happy for the team, the fans and the coaching staff.

“We did a great job defensively in the second half as Hapoel scored less than 40 points and that’s great, given all this talent they have got. It was a win-or-die game, so I am very happy how we stepped up, as everybody contributed.”

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Head coach Gediminas Petrauskas echoed Velicka’s view and praised the noisy crowd, which got behind Neptunas in full force and carried the team in the home stretch when Hapoel threw everything but the kitchen sink at the hosts.

“In the second half, we took the shots we needed to take and we owe a big thank you to this crowd for scoring 98 points as we didn’t shoot so well from three-point range,” Petrauskas said. “Everybody did their part to win today so congratulations to all of them. Now it’s one game at a time.”

Harper led Hapoel’s effort on 19 points and Carrington added 16, while Cassius Winston and Isaiah Mobley netted 15 and 14, respectively. Austin Wiley racked up 10 and 6 boards but the rest of the crew failed on both counts, as their lack of scoring prowess went hand in hand with porous defending.

The sub-standard performance, which may come back to haunt Hapoel, left a bitter taste for Coach Yonatan Alon, who acknowledged that his team was beaten in all departments.

“We let them play,” he said. “We didn’t do the right things on defense and that’s what happens. We couldn’t set the tone from the beginning and Neptunas beat us on most of the physical possessions.

“They took 42 rebounds and we took 25, which means they had 17 possessions more than us. Rebounding is teamwork like everything else, whether we do something good or bad it’s always as a team.”  

Arnas Velicka’s near triple-double powered Neptunas to a memorable 98–92 victory that halted Group A Jerusalem’s automatic quarterfinal push

Neptunas Klaipeda v Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem (2026-01-28T17:00:00.000Z)