...Anadolu Efes Istanbul has advanced to the Final Four for the fifth time? Efes previously reached the EuroLeague Final Four in 2000, 2019 and 2021, as well as the SuproLeague Final Four in 2001.
...Efes has a chance to win a second consecutive Turkish Airlines EuroLeague title? Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004, 2005) and Olympiacos Piraeus (2012, 2013) are the only teams to do this since the turn of the millennium.
...Efes became the first Turkish team in any sport to win a European competition? It did so when it raised the Korac Cup in 1996. Efes won its first EuroLeague crown 25 years later.
...Efes returns to the Final Four with 11 players and the coach who played in the 2021 EuroLeague Championship Game? Sertac Sanli is the only player who is not with the team – but he will be at the Final Four with FC Barcelona. Elijah Bryant, Filip Petrusev and Egemen Guven were not with the team last season.
...Bryant Dunston and Vasilije Micic head to their fourth Final Fours? Dunston played at his first Final Four with Olympiacos in 2015 and Micic at the 2018 Final Four with Zalgiris. They both went to the 2019 and 2021 Final Fours with Efes.
...Ergin Ataman has won four different continental titles! He won the Saporta Cup with Montepaschi Siena in 2002, the EuroChallenge with Besiktas Istanbul in 2012, the 7DAYS EuroCup with Galatasaray Istanbul in 2015 and the EuroLeague with Efes in 2021. Only two other coaches have won four different European competitions: Dusan Ivkovic (EuroLeague, EuroCup, Saporta, Korac) and Aito Garcia Reneses (EuroCup, Saporta, Korac, EuroChallenge).
...Coach Ataman is one of four coaches to win European competitions with four different teams? He won titles with Siena, Besiktas, Galatasaray and Efes. Zeljko Obradovic has won European titles with six different teams: Partizan Belgrade, Joventut Badalona, Benetton Treviso, Real Madrid, Panathinaikos Athens, and Fenerbahce. Ivkovic (Partizan, AEK Athens, Olympiacos Piraeus, Dynamo Moscow) and Bozidar Maljkovic (Split, Limoges, Panathinaikos, Unicaja Malaga) have won with four teams apiece.
...Shane Larkin owns the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game scoring record in the Final Four era? Larkin scored 29 points in the 2019 championship game for Efes in a losing effort against CSKA.
...Larkin ranks sixth all-time in points scored at a single Final Four? He had 59 points in the 2019 Final Four, which were the most by any player in 26 years. Nikos Galis had 69 points in the 1990 Final Four and also scored 67 in 1988 and 61 in 1989, all with Aris. Bob McAdoo, who had 64 points in the 1988 Final Four with Milan, and Alexander Volkov, who got 61 with Panathinaikos in 1994, are also ahead of him.
...Larkin can set a record for the highest cumulative PIR in a EuroLeague season? He has a combined PIR of 698. Luka Doncic finished the 2017-18 season with 711.