Regular Season
Round 33 of 34
Regular Season
Zalgiris KaunasZAL
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Maccabi Playtika Tel AvivMTA
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Zalgiris survives, edges playoff-bound Maccabi
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3 Минутное чтение
A highly-entertaining clash in which neither team held a lead higher than 7 points saw Zalgiris Kaunas hold off Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 68-67 on Thursday night. Zalgiris survived to see another day in a playoffs race, improving to 18-15, while Maccabi dropped to 19-14 but qualified for the playoffs thanks to losing by a margin of just 1 point. The game came down to the final 21 seconds and Maccabi's possession. Wade Baldwin took the ball into his hands, ran out the clock then attempted a tough short jumper over stretched hands of Kevarrius Hayes, but only hit the back rim, sending a sold-out Zalgirio Arena into frenzy.
Rolands Smits had 13 points and Isaiah Taylor scored 12 in victory. Maccabi had five double-digit scorers, with Baldwin and Jarell Martin scoring 12 apiece. Baldwin also had 10 assists. Lorenzo Brown and Josh Nebo each scored 11, and Jake Cohen scored 10 points for Maccabi, which qualified for the playoffs because it cannot lose any possible remaining tiebreaker.
The one tiebreaker that could have potentially eliminated Maccabi at the end of the regular season was a three-way tie with Baskonia and Zalgiris for seventh, eighth and ninth place. With all three teams splitting home wins, Maccabi is -15 head-to-head against Baskonia, and now is even in head-to-head against Zalgiris after each team won by a 1-point margin on home floor. But since Zalgiris is -16 in head-to-head games against Baskonia, in such three-way tie, Baskonia would be seventh, Maccabi eighth and Zalgiris ninth. Thanks to Partizan sweeping Zalgiris and Baskonia sweeping Fenerbahce, Maccabi cannot be worse than eighth anymore, therefore, it qualifies for the playoffs for the second straight season.
Game Videos
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Valencia Basket-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 25 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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EA7 Emporio Armani Milan-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 24 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv-Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens | Round 24 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Tubelis rocks the rim! Motorola Magic Moment
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Dowtin dishes and Sorkin soars! Motorola Magic Moment
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Sorkin slams the putback home! Motorola Magic Moment
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LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 23 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Olympiacos Piraeus-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 23 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Moses Wright rattles the rim! Motorola Magic Moment
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Hoard rejects Ntilikina! Motorola Magic Moment
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Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 22 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Hoard's block ignites Maccabi offense
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Wright rocks the rim! Motorola Magic Moment
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Santos posterizes Wright! Motorola Magic Moment
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Roman Sorkin dunks in traffic! Motorola Magic Moment
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Zalgiris Kaunas-Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade | Round 21 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Birutis's alley-oop dunk! Motorola Magic Moment
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Wright's double block! Motorola Magic Moment
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Real Madrid-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 21 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Top 10 Plays | Round 20 | 2025-26 EuroLeague Regular Season
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Virtus Bologna-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 20 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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FC Barcelona-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 20 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Moses Wright stops the show! Motorola Magic Moment
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Francisco finds Wright! Motorola Magic Moment
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Francisco throws it down! Motorola Magic Moment
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Roman Sorkin hammers it! Motorola Magic Moment
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FC Bayern Munich-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 19 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Brissett beats the buzzer with a three! Motorola Magic Moment
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Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 19 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Moses Wright with another alley-oop slam! Motorola Magic Moment
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Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv | Round 18 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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TJ Leaf hammers it home! Motorola Magic Moment
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Roman Sorkin on the fly! Motorola Magic Moment
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Walker with a tomahawk dunk! Motorola Magic Moment
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Zalgiris Kaunas-Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens | Round 18 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Moses Wright turns defense into offense! Motorola Magic Moment
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Moses Wright rocks the rim! Motorola Magic Moment
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Zalgiris Kaunas-Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade | Round 17 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Great dunk from Birutis! Motorola Magic Moment
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Wright with a big dunk! Motorola Magic Moment
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Wright bends the iron! Motorola Magic Moment
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Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv-Valencia Basket | Round 17 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Clark grabs the steals and finishes ferociously! Motorola Magic Moment
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Zalgiris Kaunas-Anadolu Efes Istanbul | Round 16 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Tubelis rejects Loyd in style! Motorola Magic Moment
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Dubai Basketball-Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv| Round 16 highlights | EuroLeague 2025-26
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Lundberg feeds Brissett for the game-winning dunk! Motorola Magic Moment
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Paris Basketball-Zalgiris Kaunas | Round 15 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
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Maccabi Rapyd Tel Aviv-LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne | Round 15 Highlights | 2025-26 EuroLeague
The teams traded blows from the start. Nebo scored 6 quick points as the visitors went up 6-8, and Martin followed with his first triple, but a fastbreak dunk from Smits and a three-pointer from Lukas Lekavicius put the hosts up 17-13. Maccabi scored the last 4 points of the first quarter to tie things ups, then Darrun Hilliard and Martin hit back-to-back threes early in the second to open a 20-23 lead. A three-point play from Martin and a triple from Brown put Maccabi further ahead, 22-29, but Tomas Dimsa answered with a three-pointer to spark a 7-0 Zalgiris run that tied the game once again. Mre Maccabi three-pointers – one apiece from Martin, Brown and Jake Cohen – restored the visitors' lead at 42-45 going into halftime.
An offensive affair turned into a defensive battle in the third quarter. Smits scored twice inside to give the hosts a 48-45 edge. Brown nailed transition triple, but Zalgiris held the visitors to just 7 third-quarter points and took a 56-52 advantage into the final frame. Cohen's three-point play helped tie it at 61-61, but Butkevicius and Taylor restored the hosts lead, 65-61, midway through the fourth. Zalgiris was then left without a single basket for more than 4 minutes, during which Nebo and Baldwin put the visitors in front, 65-67. Edgaras Ulanovas tied it with 1:38 to go and there were no more scores other than Taylor splitting free throws with 21 seconds to go, setting up the final Maccabi possession.
