These are some interesting notes about the game between Panathinaikos OPAP Athens and CSKA Moscow.
Game Notes, Panathinaikos OPAP Athens vs. CSKA Moscow
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· CSKA holds a 22-16 advantage in Turkish Airlines EuroLeague games against Panathinaikos and has won the last four, including a 97-77 victory in Round 13 behind 17 points and a career-high 13 assists from Alexey Shved.
· CSKA guard Semen Antonov had a career-best 16 points in Round 13 win over Panathinaikos.
· Last season in Athens, CSKA beat Panathinaikos 83-89 with Will Clyburn collecting 15 points and 7 rebounds.
· CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis spent 13 seasons as an assistant coach at Panathinaikos, from 1999 through 2012. He helped the club win five EuroLeague championships, 11 Greek League titles and seven Greek Cups during that span.
· At the 1996 Final Four, Panathinaikos downed CSKA 71-81 to advance to the final and eventually lift its first continental trophy. Dominique Wilkins was unstoppable for Panathinaikos with 35 points.
· CSKA and Panathinaikos met in the EuroLeague championship game in 2007. In one of the best finals in competition history, Panathinaikos beat CSKA 93-91 in Athens. Ramunas Siskauskas had 20 points and Dimitris Diamantidis added 15 and earned Final Four MVP honors.
· CSKA and Panathinaikos met in the 2009 final in Berlin, where the Greens downed CSKA 73-71. Siskauskas could have won it for CSKA at the buzzer, but his shot went in and out. Vassilis Spanoulis had 13 points to lead Panathinaikos and was chosen as the 2009 Final Four MVP.
· CSKA downed Panathinaikos 66-64 in the 2012 EuroLeague Final Four semifinals with Andrei Kirilenko leading CSKA with 17 points.
· CSKA eliminated Panathinaikos in the EuroLeague Playoffs twice, beating Panathinaikos 3-2 in 2014 and 3-1 in 2015.
· Panathinaikos's single-game record for assists is 18, which Nick Calathes tied in a 102-106 overtime road win against CSKA Moscow in January 2020.
· Panathinaikos recorded a club-record 23 steals in a 91-94 double-overtime win in the third-place game at the 2005 EuroLeague Final Four. CSKA pulled down a club-record 55 total rebounds in that loss.
· Panathinaikos guard Howard Sant-Roos made his EuroLeague debut with CSKA during the 2019-20 season. He played under Coach Itoudis and alongside current CSKA players Semen Antonov, Joel Bolomboy, Will Clyburn, Daniel Hackett, Nikita Kurbanov, Andrei Lopatin, Ivan Ukhov and Johannes Voitmann.
· Panathinaikos big man Jeremy Evans and CSKA guard Alexey Shved were teammates at Khimki Moscow Region during the 2019-20 season.
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· Ioannis Papapetrou of Panathinaikos was a teammate of CSKA guard Daniel Hackett at Olympiacos Piraeus for two seasons, from 2015 to 2017. They reached the EuroLeague championship game in 2017 together.
· CSKA center Nikola Milutinov and Panathinaikos guard Nemanja Nedovic were teammates on the Serbian national team at Eurobasket 2015.
· Milutinov earned weekly MVP honors with a career-high performance index rating of 41 when he collected 18 points and 18 rebounds playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against Panathinaikos in January 2019 season.
· CSKA's Iffe Lundberg recorded a career-high 4 steals against Panathinaikos earlier this season.
· CSKA forward Will Clyburn made a career-high 11 two-point shots playing for Darussafaka Istanbul against Panathinaikos in November 2016.
· CSKA guard Marius Grigonis posted his career-high 7 rebounds playing for Zalgiris Kaunas against Panathinaikos in November 2019. Grigonis made a career-best 6 three-point shots playing for Zalgiris against Panathinaikos in December 2020.
· CSKA forward Tornike Shengelia set his career-high with 7 assists playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz in an 86-77 home win over Panathinaikos in the 2018-19 season.