Milan thrashes Bayern, 99-74

EA7 Emporio Armani Milan registered its sixth consecutive home victory and got closer to the playoff places by downing FC Bayern Munich 99-74 at Mediolanum Forum on Friday night. Milan improved to 14-16 in the standings and is 8-1 in its last nine games. Bayern dropped to 11-19 and, with this loss, it is mathematically eliminated from the playoff race.
Shabazz Napier paced the winners with 20 points on 5-of-6 three-point shots. Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot added 14 points and Brandon Davies had 12 for Milan, which had six other players score 6 points or more. Andreas Obst led Bayern with 27 points. He buried 7 three-pointers to match Bayern's club record. Zylan Cheatham added 17 for the guests.
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Obst got Bayern going with a mid-range jumper. Melli had three close baskets, including a dunk, in a 13-2 run that Johannes Voigtmann capped with a three-pointer. Voigtmann sank a floater, Shavon Shields followed Kyle Hines's jumper with a triple and Billy Baron's three-point play boosted Milan's margin to 25-8 after 10 minutes.
Baron struck from downtown, then Luwawu-Cabarrot followed a three-pointer with a jumper as Milan pulled away, 36-11. Obst struck 4 times from downtown, getting help from Cheatham to give Bayern hope, 49-36, at halftime.
Cheatham and Obst managed to bring Bayern as close as 50-40 soon after the break. Milan did not panic and found a go-to guy in Napier, who found Luwawu-Cabarrot for a layup and added a couple of three-pointers to restore a 60-43 lead. Shields kept pacing the hosts and Deshaun Thomas soon made it a 21-point game, 69-48. Freedie Gillespie and D.J. Seeley got Bayern a bit closer, 72-54, after 30 minutes.
Napier buried back-to-back shots from beyond the arc to keep Milan out of trouble, 78-59, soon after that. Nothing changed in the final seven minutes, as Milan kept a safe margin all the way until the final buzzer.