...FC Barcelona will compete at its 16th Final Four? Only CSKA Moscow (19) has more appearances in the Final Four era, which began in 1988.
...Barca is looking for its third EuroLeague title? It previously lifted the trophy in 2003 and 2010. It lost in the championship game in 1984, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997 and 2021.
...Sarunas Jasikevicius has a chance to become the fourth person to win the EuroLeague as a player and coach? Jasikevicius won four EuroLeague titles as a player. Armenak Alachachan, Lolo Sainz and Svetislav Pesic are the only three members of this exclusive club.
...Coach Jasikevicius is still the only player to win the EuroLeague with three different teams? Jasikevicius lifted the trophy with Barca in 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2004 and 2005 and Panathinaikos Athens in 2009.
...Sertac Sanli can join a exclusive list of players to win consecutive EuroLeague titles with different teams? He won the EuroLeague with Anadolu Efes Istanbul in 2021 and has a chance to go all the way with Barca. Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos 2002, Barca 2003), Jasikevicius (Barca 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2004) and Ramunas Siskauskas (Panathinaikos Athens 2007, CSKA Moscow 2008) are to date the only players to do so.
...Nikola Mirotic leads the 2021-22 EuroLeague in PIR average (19.4)?
...Mirotic is just the second player in EuroLeague history to post 65-45-85 shooting percentages, making 65.6% of his shots inside the arc, 45.5% from downtown and 87.5% of free throws. Yotam Halperin of Olympiacos Piraeus also did so (67.6% 2FG, 51.9% 3FG, 95.7% FT), but he attempted only 64 field goals compared to Mirotic's 343.
...Mirotic has been chosen as MVP of the month a EuroLeague record seven times? He won the award in December 2011, October 2013, December 2019, February 2020, March 2021, October 2021 and December 2021. No one else has won the award more than three times. Barcelona players Nick Calathes (November 2017, March 2018) and Brandon Davies (April 2017) have also won the award in the past.
...Rolands Smits can become the first Latvian player to win the EuroLeague in the Final Four era? ASK Riga won three EuroLeague titles from 1958 to 1960, but no Latvian player has lifted the trophy since the restoration of Latvian Independence in 1991.
...Nick Calathes is one of 19 players to win the EuroLeague and the 7DAYS EuroCup titles? He won the EuroLeague with Panathinaikos in 2011 and the EuroCup with Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in 2013. Milos Teodosic (CSKA Moscow 2016, Virtus Segafredo Bologna 2022) and Daniel Hackett (CSKA 2019, Virtus 2022) were the latest players to join this club just last week.