Reigning champ Real (12-1) will seek to maintain its two-game lead at the top of the standings with a visit from Bayern (6-7) and a coach who knows the hosts as well as anybody.
Game Notes: Madrid vs. Bayern

The spotlight will fall on Bayern coach Pablo Laso, who will return to face his former club for the first time in an official game since his glorious 11-year reign – which delivered two EuroLeague crowns – came to an end 18 months ago. Expect a fierce battle inside the paint as Real giant Walter Tavares is confronted by Serge Ibaka and Devin Booker, who respectively rank second and third in the league in rebounding (7.1 and 6.5 rpg.). Real leads the competition in 10 different performance parameters, but there could be nobody better than Laso to devise the perfect game plan against the players he knows so well.


- This game marks the return of Bayern head coach Pablo Laso to Madrid, where he coached Real for 11 years, from 2011 to 2022. Among many feats during that time, Laso guided Los Blancos to EuroLeague titles in 2015 and 2018, years he was also voted as EuroLeague Coach of the Year, and he led Real to 19 domestic titles, including 6 Spanish League crowns.
- Last December in Munich, Real beat Bayern 64-68 with Walter Tavares collecting 14 points, 8 rebounds and tying a club record and a career-high with 6 blocks.
- In January 2021 when Real pulled out a 76-81 overtime win in Munich, it was behind a career-high 26 points from Walter Tavares on a career-best 11 two-point shots made.
- The last time they played, Bayern's Andreas Obst tied a career-high and a Bayern club record with 7 three-pointers made in Bayern's 79-67 loss against Real in Madrid.
- In their lone meeting in the 2019-20 season, a 95-86 Bayern victory in Munich, Bayern made a club record 32 two-pointers.
- Real's single-game record for steals by a player is 6, which Gustavo Ayon tied against FC Bayern Munich on December 11, 2015.
- Bayern big man Serge Ibaka had his EuroLeague debut with Real Madrid in the first part of the 2011-12 season.
- Ibaka was a teammate of Real's Rudy Fernandez, Sergio Rodriguez and Sergio Llull with the Spanish national team. Together they won silver medals at the 2012 Olympics in London.
- Bayern's Sylvain Francisco was a teammate of Real's Guerschon Yabusele on the French national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Real guard Fabien Causeur was a teammate of Elias Harris at Brose Bamberg during the 2016-17 season.
- Real center Vincent Poirier posted his career-high with 24 points playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Bayern in October 2018.

























































































