Reigning champ Real (7-0) will aim to prolong its blistering start to the season against a Monaco (5-3) team looking to reboot after seeing its five-game winning streak snapped at home by Efes earlier in the week.
Game Notes: Madrid vs. Monaco

A must-watch duel comes in the backcourt between the league's top rated guards, Facundo Campazzo (20.4 PIR per game) and Mike James (19.6 PIR). The host will also look to impose its authority in the paint through giant Walter Tavares, who blocked 4 shots in Tuesday's hard-earned victory at Valencia. The task of containing him falls to the smooth footwork of Donatas Moteijunas, who has the ability to stretch the floor with a 40% three-point conversion rate so far this season.
- The last time they played, Real forward Mario Hezonja had career highs of 30 points, 6 assists and 34 PIR in a 91-95 road win.
- Last season in Madrid, Monaco registered its only victory over Real when it pulled out an 94-95 overtime decision. Mike James scored 28 points in that win.
- Real center Walter Tavares pulled down a career-high and a club-record 18 rebounds in that Round 12 loss against Monaco.
- In the first EuroLeague meeting between these two clubs, Real's 94-86 win in October 2021, Monaco guard Mike James matched his career-high with 6 three-pointers made in defeat.
- James had the best three-point shooting night of his career when he made 6 of 6 triples while playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Real on April 1, 2016.
- Real and Monaco faced each other in the 1987-88 Korac Cup when Real swept the series, winning 117-81 in Madrid and 84-87 in the return leg in Monaco.
- Monaco's Petr Cornelie helped Real win the 2023 EuroLeague title last season.
- Real Madrid forward Guerschon Yabusele was a teammate of Monaco's Matthew Strazel at LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne during the 2019-20 and 2021-22 seasons.
- Monaco's Terry Tarpey, Elie Okobo and Yakuba Ouattara were teammates with Real's Guerschon Yabusele on the French national team at the 2023 World Cup.
- Jordan Loyd and Alberto Abalde were teammates at Valencia basket in the 2019-20 season.
- Monaco's John Brown and Real's Hezonja were teammates at UNICS Kazan the season before last.
- Monaco's James and Real Madrid's Fabien Causeur were teammates at Baskonia for a season and a half, from 2014 to 2016. They helped the team reach the 2016 EuroLeague Final Four.
- James twice pulled down a career-high 8 defensive rebounds against Real, first for Panathinaikos Athens in April 2018 and later for Milan in March 2019.
- Monaco's Alpha Diallo posted his career high with 4 steals in a home loss against Real in January 2022.