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FC BARCELONA: DID YOU KNOW THAT…
 

...FC Barcelona will compete in its 17th Final Four? Only CSKA Moscow (19) has more appearances in the Final Four era, which began in 1988.

...Barca is looking for its third EuroLeague title? It previously lifted the trophy in 2003 and 2010 and lost championship games in 1984, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1997 and 2021.

...Sarunas Jasikevicius has a chance to become the fourth person to win the EuroLeague as a player and coach? Jasikevicius won four EuroLeague titles as a player. Armenak Alachachan, Lolo Sainz and Stevislav Pesic are the only three members of this exclusive club.

...Coach Jasikevicius is still the only player to win the EuroLeague with three different teams? Jasikevicius lifted the trophy with Barca in 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2004 and 2005, and Panathinaikos Athens in 2009.

…Cory Higgins heads to his seventh consecutive Final Four? No other player has been to all of the last seven Final Fours.

...Higgins can win his third EuroLeague title? He previously lifted the trophy with CSKA in 2016 and 2019. No player ever has won the EuroLeague with both CSKA and Barcelona.

…Jan Vesely and Nikola Kalinic won the EuroLeague with Fenerbahce in 2017? They have a chance to win their second EuroLeague crown. Vesely is in his seventh Final Four, Kalinic in his fifth.

…Vesely has made it to the Final Four with three different teams? Partizan, Fenerbahce and now Barca!

…Sertac Sanli lifted the EuroLeague trophy with Efes in 2021, and has a chance to do it again with Barca?

…Nikola Mirotic and Vesely are two of the EuroLeague MVPs present at the Final Four? Mirotic was chosen as the 2021-22 EuroLeague MVP. Vesely earned 2018-19 EuroLeague MVP honors. (Llull, Chacho, Bjelica)

…Mirotic is in his sixth Final Four? No player has ever been to six Final Fours without lifting the trophy. Milos Teodosic, however, did not get his first EuroLeague crown until his seventh Final Four.

…Mike Tobey has a chance to be the 20th player to win both the EuroLeague and EuroCup titles? He lifted the EuroCup trophy with Valencia Basket in 2019. The list includes all-time greats like Milos Teodosic, Nando De Colo, Ricky Rubio, Nick Calathes, Dejan Tomasevic or Tyrese Rice.

...Alex Abrines is the only Barcelona player who has been in the team's last four Final Four appearances? Abrines is in his fifth Final Four with Barcelona.

...Rokas Jokubaitis can be the fourth player to win the EuroLeague Rising Star trophy and the Euroleague title in the same season? Ricky Rubio (2009-10, Barca), Kostas Papanikolaou (2012-13, Olympiacos) and Luka Doncic (2017-18, Real) did it in the past.

…Jokubaitis, Mirotic and Abrines are three of the five Rising Star trophy winners present at the 2022 Final Four? Mirotic won it twice in 2011 and 2012, and Abrines got tin 2016. Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid (2007) and Papanikolaou (2013) also won this award in the past.

…Nico Laprovittola can join a list of Argentineans that won the EuroLeague title? The list features Hugo Sconochini (Virtus 1998, 2001), Facu Campazzo (Real 2015, 2018), Manu Ginobili (Virtus 2001), Pepe Sanchez (Panathinaikos 2002) and Andres Nocioni (Real 2015).

…Tomas Masiulis, Barca’s assistant coach, won the EuroLeague as a player? He lifted the trophy with Zalgiris in 1999.


…Gabriel Deck can join a list of Argentineans that won the EuroLeague title? The list features Hugo Sconochini (Virtus 1998, 2001), Facu Campazzo (Real 2015, 2018), Manu Ginobili (Virtus 2001), Pepe Sanchez (Panathinaikos 2002) and Andres Nocioni (Real 2015). Nicolas Laprovittola of FC Barcelona can also join this list in 2023.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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