Nikola Mirotic scored the 2,500th points of his EuroLeague career on Thursday and that was just one of the milestones achieved in FC Barcelona's 88-83 victory over AS Monaco.
Telling numbers: Mirotic joins 2,500-point club
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Dante Exum had career-best numbers with 22 points and a PIR of 31. Nick Calathes became the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague's assists king, passing Vassilis Spanoulis to total 1,612 - and counting. And Nikola Mirotic became the 21st player to reach 2,500 points in the competition.
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Mirotic reached that mark with a three-pointer with 8:57 left in the third quarter. Earlier in the game, he leapfrogged Panathinaikos Athens legends Dimitris Diamantidis (2,495) and Mike Batiste (2,496) on the all-time scoring charts. Only four players in front of Mirtoic on the scoring charts - Mike James, Alexey Shved, Nando De Colo and Marcus Brown - have a better career scoring average than the Barcelona superstar (13.7 ppg.).