An emotional Belgrade derby will see Partizan (10-8) attempt to complete a season sweep of local rivals Zvezda (7-11) after celebrating a 88-86 comeback triumph in Round 5.
Game Notes: Zvezda vs. Partizan



Both teams are high in confidence after winning earlier this week, with Zvezda overcoming Fenerbahce behind 24 points from Joel Bolomboy, while Partizan cruised past ASVEL on 4-for-5 three-point shooting from Kevin Punter. Another Partizan weapon could be Danilo Andjusic, who boosted his confidence as he ended a run of four games without scoring by draining 15 points on Tuesday night.
- Last season, in the first-ever EuroLeague meeting between these two Belgrade rivals, Zvezda rallied to stun Partizan 73-76 on a game-winning three-pointer from Nemanja Nedovic.
- These two teams played the five-game ABA League finals the last two seasons, with Crvena Zvezda beating Partizan 3-2 in 2022 and Partizan winning 3-2 last season.
- Partizan guard Kevin Punter spent the second part of the 2019-20 season with Crvena Zvezda. He was a teammate of Branko Lazic. He averaged 15.9 points in 12 EuroLeague games with Zvezda
- Nedovic was also a teammate of Partizan's James Nunnally at EA7 Emporio Armani Milan during the 2018-19 season.
- Nunnally played under current Zvezda head coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv in the 2021-22 season. They helped Maccabi reach the EuroLeague playoffs that season.
- Zvezda's Dejan Davidovac has been a teammate of Partizan's Aleksa Avramovic on the Serbian national team. Together they won the silver medal at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Partizan's Avramovic, Ognjen Jaramaz, Danilo Andjusic and Uros Trifunovic and Zvezda's Davidovac, Milos Teodosic, Luka Mitrovic, Nemanja Bjelica and Nemanja Nedovic have all been members of the Serbian national team.
- Zvezda's Yago Dos Santos and Partizan's Bruno Caboclo were teammates on the Brazilian national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Milos Teodosic has collected 4 steals in a single game seven times in his EuroLeague career and four of them were against Partizan. The first two times came with Olympiacos Piraeus, first in January 2010, and then again in the 2010 Final Four semifinals. He also had 4 steals twice with CSKA against Partizan during the 2012-13 regular season.
- In one of those games, in January 2010, Teodosic had a career-high 3 blocks.
- Zvezda team captain Branko Lazic posted his career high in steals with 4 in Crvena Zvezda's win over Partizan last season.
- Partizan forward Tristan Vukcevic grabbed a career-high 6 rebounds in Partizan's loss against Crvena Zvezda last season.
- Bayern center Freddie Gillespie blocked a career-high 4 shots playing for FC Bayern Munich against Partizan last February.