When it comes to Efes, history will be in the air all season long thanks to its rare back-to-back EuroLeague titles and the quest for three in a row. As it happens, the only previous time this century that a back-to-back champ opened the next EuroLeague season at home some serious history was made.
Efes vs. Zvezda: History in the air
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Repeat champ Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated Polish club Prokom Trefl Sopot by 95-68, but the historic performance belonged to one player: legendary center Nikola Vujcic. On that night, November 3, 2005m the current Maccabi general manager recorded the very first triple-double in Euroleague history: 11 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
Maccabi's three-peat try that season went all the way to the championship game before it lost a close one, 73-69, to CSKA Moscow. Efes may not need a triple-double to trigger the season, but it would be happy to play the last season’s last game with history in the air, for sure.