After igniting its season with consecutive victories, Bayern (5-6) will look to keep climbing the standings with a visit from Milan (4-7).
Game Notes: Bayern vs. Milan

Serge Ibaka inspired the German team’s big win over Virtus last week with a huge double-double of 24 points and 13 rebounds, and the veteran center will look to stay hot against Milan’s array of big men. Ibaka’s average of 6.6 boards per game has helped make Bayern the league’s top rebounding team with 40.1 per night. Milan’s main offensive weapon is its long-range shooting, ranking second in the competition with a 40.8% conversion rate from deep, and Shavon Shields has been on fire from deep in recent weeks with an average of 3.8 triples in the last four games.
- Last season in Munich, Milan edged Bayern 81-83 which is the only road win in the last 10 games between these two teams. Milan's Nicolo Melli had 17 points and a 29 PIR, earning MVP of the Round honor.
- The last time they played, Bayern's Andreas Obst had career-highs in scoring (24), triples made (7) and PIR (27) in a 99-74 loss in Milan. Those 7 threes are also tied for a club single-game record.
- Seven of their games took place in the 2020-21 season with Milan ousting Bayern 3-2 in their best-of-five EuroLeague Playoff series.
- In the deciding Game 5 of that series, Milan led by as many as 17 points and was still up 12 points with 78 seconds left in the game, but had to hold on to a 92-89 win behind Shavon Shields who had career-highs in points (34), PIR (41), free throws made (11) and three-pointers made (5). He earned MVP of the Round honor for his performance.
- Bayern forward Vladimir Lucic set his career-highs in points (27), free throws made (11), and PIR (35) in a historic Game 3 win over Milan. Bayern not only registered its first Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs win that night, but it was also the first victory by any German team at that stage of the season.
- Milan held Bayern to club-record lows with 51 points, 2 three-pointers made, and a team PIR of 32 in a 75-51 home win in January 2021.
- Milan point guard Maodo Lo played two seasons for Bayern, from 2018 to 2020, and made 57 appearances in the EuroLeague.
- The Bayern trio Isaac Bonga, Andreas Obst and Niels Gifey have been teammates of Milan's Lo and Johannes Voigtmann on the German national team, and together they have won the gold medal at the 2023 World Cup.
- Voigtmann, Obst and Bayern's Nick Weiler-Babb also won the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2022.
- Lo and Milan forward Nicolo Melli were teammates of Bayern's Elias Harris at Brose Bamberg. Melli and Harris were teammates for two seasons, from 2015 to 2017, and together they won a pair of German League titles. Lo was a teammate with them in the 2016-17 season.
- Nicolo Melli tied his career high with 6 offensive rebounds against Bayern last March.
- Milan's Diego Flaccadori spent two seasons with Bayern, from 2019 to 2021. He made his EuroLeague debut there.
- Milan big man Kyle Hines matched his career-high with 4 blocks playing for CSKA Moscow against Bayern in March 2014.
- In Game 3 of the 2022 playoffs, Milan forward Nikola Mirotic earned the MVP of the Round honor after scoring 25 points and accumulating a PIR of 31 playing for FC Barcelona in a 66-75 win against Bayern in Munich.