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Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs CSKA Moscow
· CSKA has a 17-3 record against Efes this century and has won their last eight meetings. Efes has not beaten CSKA in the EuroLeague this century outside of Istanbul.
· This season in Round 14, CSKA topped Efes 102-84 in Moscow behind 24 points plus 11 rebounds from Will Clyburn and 21 points plus 6 assists from Nando De Colo. In Round 27, Cory Higgins hit a game-winning layup with 1.9 seconds left to lift CSKA to 78-80 win. Higgins led CSKA with 19 points in that game.
· CSKA and Efes faced each other in the 1999 and 2006 EuroLeague playoffs, then played as a best-of-three series. Efes swept CSKA in 1999 and CSKA did the same to Efes in 2006 and advanced to lift its first EuroLeague trophy in 35 years.
· CSKA has made a club-record 18 three-point shots twice, both times in home wins over Efes. The first was in a 90-68 win in November of 2008 and it happened again in a 110-79 win in January 2018.
· CSKA guard Nando De Colo was the MVP for Top 16 Round 3 in the 2014-15 season after leading CSKA to a 69-78 triumph at Efes with 22 points on 12-of-13 free throw shooting for a PIR of 34.
· Nando de Colo of CSKA and Rodrigue Beaubois of Efes started their careers with Cholet Basket and played together from 2006 to 2009. They led their team to Leaders Cup (former Semaine des As) titles in 2007 and 2008.
· Efes big man Bryant Dunston and CSKA center Othello Hunter were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus during the 2014-15 season.
· CSKA forward Will Clyburn was a teammate of current Efes players James Anderson and Adrien Moerman at Darussafaka Istanbul during the 2016-17 season.
· CSKA forward Nikita Kurbanov was a teammate of Efes guard Krunoslav Simon at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2014-15 campaign.
· CSKA center Kyle Hines and his Efes counterpart Tibor Pleiss were EuroLeague rookies together during the 2010-11 season with Brose Bamberg.
· Will Clyburn posted his career-high 7 offensive rebounds in a Round 14victory over Efes.
· Othello Hunter had career-best 5 steals playing for Real Madrid against Efes in Round 15 of the 2016-17 season.
· CSKA forward Nikita Kurbanov set his career high with 6 steals against Efes in Round 14.
· CSKA guard Daniel Hackett matched his personal best with 3 steals playing for Milan against Efes in March 2014
· Kyle Hines matched his career-high with 4 blocks playing for Olympiacos against Efes in April 2013.
· Nando De Colo marched his career-high with 4 steals against Efes in January 2015.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov posted a career-best 16 points against Efes while playing for Nizhny Novgorod in November 2014.
· CSKA guard Sergio Rodriguez set a career-high with 6 steals playing for Estudiantes against Efes in December 2004.
· Rodriguez shot a career-best 6 of 6 from three-point range playing for Real Madrid against Efes in December 2013
· Rodrigue Beaubois matched his career high with 3 steals playing for KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against CSKA in December 2017.
· Bryant Dunston set a career high with 8 offensive rebounds playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against CSKA in February 2015.
FINAL, ANADOLU EFES ISTANBUL: DID YOU KNOW THAT...
…Efes ranked 16th and last in the 2017-18 Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season wit ha 7-23 record? It can do from worst to first!
...head coach Ergin Ataman is set to play his first EuroLeague Championship Game? He had lost two semifinals with Efes in 2000 and Montepaschi Siena in 2003.
...Ataman can become the third coach to win both the EuroLeague and EuroCup titles? Dusan Ivkovic (Olympiacos 1997, 2012; Dynamo Moscow 2006) and David Blatt (Maccabi Tel Aviv 2014, Darussafaka Istanbul 2018) are the only coaches to have won both titles. Ataman led Galatasaray Istanbul to the EuroCup title in 2016.
...Ataman has won three different European competitions in the past? Ataman won the 2002 Saporta Cup with Montepaschi, took the 2012 FIBA EuroChallenge with Besiktas Istanbul and lifted the 2016 EuroCup trophy with Galatasaray in 2016. Only Dusan Ivkovic (EuroLeague, ULEB Cup, Saporta, Korac) and Aito Garcia Reneses (ULEB Cup, Saporta, Korac, FIBA Eurocup) have won four different European competitions.
...Brock Motum can become the fourth Australian player to win the Euroleague? Joe Ingles (Maccabi 2014), Aleks Maric (Panathinaikos 2011) and David Andersen (Kinder Bologna 2001, CSKA 2006, 2008) are the only Australians to have won the EuroLeague before.
…Tibor Pleiss can become the fourth German player to win the EuroLeague? The late Chris Welp (Olympiacos 1997), Michael Koch (Panathinaikos 2000) and Patrick Femerling (FC Barceona 2003) are the only Germans to have won the EuroLeague before.
...Dunston ranks third in blocks in the EuroLeague this season with 1.2 blocks per game? Walter Tavares of Real Madrid leads the standings at 1.7 per night. Dunston has blocked 230 shots during his EuroLeague career, which ranks second all-time behind only Fran Vazquez (249 blocks).
...Moerman ranks second in defensive rebounds this season (4.88 drpg.)? He trails only Will Clyburn of CSKA Moscow (5.2 drpg.). Moerman ranks sixth in total rebounds (6.17 rpg.).
...Micic ranks third in assists this season at 5.5 per game? Nick Calathes of Panathinaikos OPAP Athens (8.7 apg.) and Mike James of AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan (6.4 apg.) are ahead of him.
... Pleiss ranks sixth in two-point shooting percentage? Pleiss has made 117 of 171 two-point shots (68.4%). Walter Tavares leads the charts at 79.2% (103 of 130).
...Pleiss is seventh in PIR per 40 minutes with an average of 27.6? He is also the fourth-best per-minute scorer in the competition with an average of 23.72 points prorated over 40 minutes.
...Efes enters the Championship Game with a team PIR of 100.7, which is 11th-best in competition history? It shatters the club's previous record of 93.5 in the 2015-16 season.
...Efes ranks second in the league in assists this season (19.4 apg.) and fourth in blocks (2.97 bpg.)?
...Efes is first in two-point (58.7%) and second in three-point (40.7%) shooting percentage? Fenerbahce ranks first in three-point shooting percentage (43.0% 3FG).
...Efes has the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the competition with 1.71 assists per turnover? It is a club record and the fourth-best mark in competition history. Real Madrid owns the first (2.25, 2014-15), second (1.74, 2013-14) and third-best marks (1.72, 2018-19).
FINAL, CSKA MOSCOW: DID YOU KNOW THAT…
...CSKA has the chance to win its eighth EuroLeague title? The Russian powerhouse has previously lifted the top continental trophy in 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 2006, 2008 and 2016. Real Madrid is the winningest team in EuroLeague history with 10 titles.
...Kyle Hines can win his fourth EuroLeague title? He won back-to-back titles with Olympiacos in 2012 and 2013 and lifted the trophy again with CSKA in 2016.
...Hines can become the third player to ever win multiple EuroLeague titles with different teams? Only Dino Meneghin (five titles with Varese, two with Milan) and Fausto Bargna (two with Cantu, two with Milan) have done so since the competition was founded in 1958. Kostas Sloukas (Olympiacos 2012, 2013, Fenerbahce 2017) also has the chance to do so this season.
...Coach Dimitris Itoudis is one of two Greek coaches to have won the EuroLeague title. He did so with CSKA in 2016. Georgios Bartzokas lifted the trophy with Olympiacos in 2013. Now, he has a chance to be the first Greek coach to win two EuroLeague titles!
...Sergio Rodriguez could become the first Spanish player to win the EuroLeague with different teams? He won the EuroLeague with Real Madrid in 2015.
...Rodriguez could become the first Spanish-born player to win the EuroLeague with a non-Spanish team?
...Nando De Colo belongs to an exclusive list of players who have won the EuroLeague and the EuroCup titles? De Colo lifted the EuroCup trophy with Valencia Basket in 2010 and won the EuroLeague with CSKA in 2016.
...Othello Hunter has made it to the Final Four with three different teams? Hunter played the Final Four with Olympiacos in 2015, Real Madrid in 2017 and CSKA Moscow these past two seasons!
...six CSKA players – De Colo, Kurbanov, Hines, Vorontsevich, Cory Higgins and Mikhail Kulagin – won the EuroLeague with CSKA in 2016?
...Vorontsevich and Kurbanov are looking for their third EuroLeague titles? Kurbanov won his first title with CSKA in 2006. Vorontsevich lifted the trophy in 2008. Both of them won it again in 2016.
...two CSKA players – Rodriguez and De Colo – have been chosen as EuroLeague MVPs during their careers? Rodriguez was the 2013-14 EuroLeague MVP. De Colo earned the award for the 2015-16 season.
...De Colo is now tied for fifth place in the Final Four’s all-time scoring list? After scoring 23 points against Real Madrid, De Colo is tied with Dejan Bodiroga and Theo Papaloukas for sixth place, each with 164 points. Nikos Galis leads the standings with 231 points.
...Hines has climbed to third place on the Final Four's all-time rebounds list. He has 71 rebounds in Final Four action. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings (107), followed by Matjaz Smodis (73).
...Rodriguez is third in assists (48) in Final Four history? Papaloulas leads the list (59), followed by Rodriguez's former Real Madrid teammate Sergio Llull (52).
...Hines ranks fourth on the all-time block shots list (206)? He could climb a spot in the Final Four; Alex Tyus of Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv is third with 209 career rejections.
...Hines ranks eighth on the all-time rebounding list (1,147)? He climbed a spot in the Final Four; Andersen is ninth with 1,145 career boards.
...De Colo ranks ninth on the all-time scoring list with 2,672 career points?
...Rodriguez ranks fifth on the all-time assists list with 1,093 during his career?
...Kurbanov, Vorontsevich and Hines are in their fourth EuroLeague Championship Game appearance?
...De Colo could become the fifth player to win multiple Final Four MVP awards? Only Toni Kukoc (1990, 1991, 1993), Dejan Bodiroga (2002, 2003), Dimitris Diamantidis (2007, 2011) and Vassilis Spanoulis (2009, 2012, 2013) have managed to do so.
...De Colo ranks third in free throw shooting this season (94.4%). Jaycee Carroll of Real Madrid is in first place (96%), followed by his teammate Sergio Llull (95.7%).
...De Colo is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in free throw shooting percentage? He has made 680 of his 725 free throw attempts throughout his 166-game career, an impressive 93.8%!
· CSKA has a 17-3 record against Efes this century and has won their last eight meetings. Efes has not beaten CSKA in the EuroLeague this century outside of Istanbul.
· This season in Round 14, CSKA topped Efes 102-84 in Moscow behind 24 points plus 11 rebounds from Will Clyburn and 21 points plus 6 assists from Nando De Colo. In Round 27, Cory Higgins hit a game-winning layup with 1.9 seconds left to lift CSKA to 78-80 win. Higgins led CSKA with 19 points in that game.
· CSKA and Efes faced each other in the 1999 and 2006 EuroLeague playoffs, then played as a best-of-three series. Efes swept CSKA in 1999 and CSKA did the same to Efes in 2006 and advanced to lift its first EuroLeague trophy in 35 years.
· CSKA has made a club-record 18 three-point shots twice, both times in home wins over Efes. The first was in a 90-68 win in November of 2008 and it happened again in a 110-79 win in January 2018.
· CSKA guard Nando De Colo was the MVP for Top 16 Round 3 in the 2014-15 season after leading CSKA to a 69-78 triumph at Efes with 22 points on 12-of-13 free throw shooting for a PIR of 34.
· Nando de Colo of CSKA and Rodrigue Beaubois of Efes started their careers with Cholet Basket and played together from 2006 to 2009. They led their team to Leaders Cup (former Semaine des As) titles in 2007 and 2008.
· Efes big man Bryant Dunston and CSKA center Othello Hunter were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus during the 2014-15 season.
· CSKA forward Will Clyburn was a teammate of current Efes players James Anderson and Adrien Moerman at Darussafaka Istanbul during the 2016-17 season.
· CSKA forward Nikita Kurbanov was a teammate of Efes guard Krunoslav Simon at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2014-15 campaign.
· CSKA center Kyle Hines and his Efes counterpart Tibor Pleiss were EuroLeague rookies together during the 2010-11 season with Brose Bamberg.
· Will Clyburn posted his career-high 7 offensive rebounds in a Round 14victory over Efes.
· Othello Hunter had career-best 5 steals playing for Real Madrid against Efes in Round 15 of the 2016-17 season.
· CSKA forward Nikita Kurbanov set his career high with 6 steals against Efes in Round 14.
· CSKA guard Daniel Hackett matched his personal best with 3 steals playing for Milan against Efes in March 2014
· Kyle Hines matched his career-high with 4 blocks playing for Olympiacos against Efes in April 2013.
· Nando De Colo marched his career-high with 4 steals against Efes in January 2015.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov posted a career-best 16 points against Efes while playing for Nizhny Novgorod in November 2014.
· CSKA guard Sergio Rodriguez set a career-high with 6 steals playing for Estudiantes against Efes in December 2004.
· Rodriguez shot a career-best 6 of 6 from three-point range playing for Real Madrid against Efes in December 2013
· Rodrigue Beaubois matched his career high with 3 steals playing for KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against CSKA in December 2017.
· Bryant Dunston set a career high with 8 offensive rebounds playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against CSKA in February 2015.
FINAL, ANADOLU EFES ISTANBUL: DID YOU KNOW THAT...
…Efes ranked 16th and last in the 2017-18 Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season wit ha 7-23 record? It can do from worst to first!
...head coach Ergin Ataman is set to play his first EuroLeague Championship Game? He had lost two semifinals with Efes in 2000 and Montepaschi Siena in 2003.
...Ataman can become the third coach to win both the EuroLeague and EuroCup titles? Dusan Ivkovic (Olympiacos 1997, 2012; Dynamo Moscow 2006) and David Blatt (Maccabi Tel Aviv 2014, Darussafaka Istanbul 2018) are the only coaches to have won both titles. Ataman led Galatasaray Istanbul to the EuroCup title in 2016.
...Ataman has won three different European competitions in the past? Ataman won the 2002 Saporta Cup with Montepaschi, took the 2012 FIBA EuroChallenge with Besiktas Istanbul and lifted the 2016 EuroCup trophy with Galatasaray in 2016. Only Dusan Ivkovic (EuroLeague, ULEB Cup, Saporta, Korac) and Aito Garcia Reneses (ULEB Cup, Saporta, Korac, FIBA Eurocup) have won four different European competitions.
...Brock Motum can become the fourth Australian player to win the Euroleague? Joe Ingles (Maccabi 2014), Aleks Maric (Panathinaikos 2011) and David Andersen (Kinder Bologna 2001, CSKA 2006, 2008) are the only Australians to have won the EuroLeague before.
…Tibor Pleiss can become the fourth German player to win the EuroLeague? The late Chris Welp (Olympiacos 1997), Michael Koch (Panathinaikos 2000) and Patrick Femerling (FC Barceona 2003) are the only Germans to have won the EuroLeague before.
...Dunston ranks third in blocks in the EuroLeague this season with 1.2 blocks per game? Walter Tavares of Real Madrid leads the standings at 1.7 per night. Dunston has blocked 230 shots during his EuroLeague career, which ranks second all-time behind only Fran Vazquez (249 blocks).
...Moerman ranks second in defensive rebounds this season (4.88 drpg.)? He trails only Will Clyburn of CSKA Moscow (5.2 drpg.). Moerman ranks sixth in total rebounds (6.17 rpg.).
...Micic ranks third in assists this season at 5.5 per game? Nick Calathes of Panathinaikos OPAP Athens (8.7 apg.) and Mike James of AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan (6.4 apg.) are ahead of him.
... Pleiss ranks sixth in two-point shooting percentage? Pleiss has made 117 of 171 two-point shots (68.4%). Walter Tavares leads the charts at 79.2% (103 of 130).
...Pleiss is seventh in PIR per 40 minutes with an average of 27.6? He is also the fourth-best per-minute scorer in the competition with an average of 23.72 points prorated over 40 minutes.
...Efes enters the Championship Game with a team PIR of 100.7, which is 11th-best in competition history? It shatters the club's previous record of 93.5 in the 2015-16 season.
...Efes ranks second in the league in assists this season (19.4 apg.) and fourth in blocks (2.97 bpg.)?
...Efes is first in two-point (58.7%) and second in three-point (40.7%) shooting percentage? Fenerbahce ranks first in three-point shooting percentage (43.0% 3FG).
...Efes has the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the competition with 1.71 assists per turnover? It is a club record and the fourth-best mark in competition history. Real Madrid owns the first (2.25, 2014-15), second (1.74, 2013-14) and third-best marks (1.72, 2018-19).
FINAL, CSKA MOSCOW: DID YOU KNOW THAT…
...CSKA has the chance to win its eighth EuroLeague title? The Russian powerhouse has previously lifted the top continental trophy in 1961, 1963, 1969, 1971, 2006, 2008 and 2016. Real Madrid is the winningest team in EuroLeague history with 10 titles.
...Kyle Hines can win his fourth EuroLeague title? He won back-to-back titles with Olympiacos in 2012 and 2013 and lifted the trophy again with CSKA in 2016.
...Hines can become the third player to ever win multiple EuroLeague titles with different teams? Only Dino Meneghin (five titles with Varese, two with Milan) and Fausto Bargna (two with Cantu, two with Milan) have done so since the competition was founded in 1958. Kostas Sloukas (Olympiacos 2012, 2013, Fenerbahce 2017) also has the chance to do so this season.
...Coach Dimitris Itoudis is one of two Greek coaches to have won the EuroLeague title. He did so with CSKA in 2016. Georgios Bartzokas lifted the trophy with Olympiacos in 2013. Now, he has a chance to be the first Greek coach to win two EuroLeague titles!
...Sergio Rodriguez could become the first Spanish player to win the EuroLeague with different teams? He won the EuroLeague with Real Madrid in 2015.
...Rodriguez could become the first Spanish-born player to win the EuroLeague with a non-Spanish team?
...Nando De Colo belongs to an exclusive list of players who have won the EuroLeague and the EuroCup titles? De Colo lifted the EuroCup trophy with Valencia Basket in 2010 and won the EuroLeague with CSKA in 2016.
...Othello Hunter has made it to the Final Four with three different teams? Hunter played the Final Four with Olympiacos in 2015, Real Madrid in 2017 and CSKA Moscow these past two seasons!
...six CSKA players – De Colo, Kurbanov, Hines, Vorontsevich, Cory Higgins and Mikhail Kulagin – won the EuroLeague with CSKA in 2016?
...Vorontsevich and Kurbanov are looking for their third EuroLeague titles? Kurbanov won his first title with CSKA in 2006. Vorontsevich lifted the trophy in 2008. Both of them won it again in 2016.
...two CSKA players – Rodriguez and De Colo – have been chosen as EuroLeague MVPs during their careers? Rodriguez was the 2013-14 EuroLeague MVP. De Colo earned the award for the 2015-16 season.
...De Colo is now tied for fifth place in the Final Four’s all-time scoring list? After scoring 23 points against Real Madrid, De Colo is tied with Dejan Bodiroga and Theo Papaloukas for sixth place, each with 164 points. Nikos Galis leads the standings with 231 points.
...Hines has climbed to third place on the Final Four's all-time rebounds list. He has 71 rebounds in Final Four action. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings (107), followed by Matjaz Smodis (73).
...Rodriguez is third in assists (48) in Final Four history? Papaloulas leads the list (59), followed by Rodriguez's former Real Madrid teammate Sergio Llull (52).
...Hines ranks fourth on the all-time block shots list (206)? He could climb a spot in the Final Four; Alex Tyus of Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv is third with 209 career rejections.
...Hines ranks eighth on the all-time rebounding list (1,147)? He climbed a spot in the Final Four; Andersen is ninth with 1,145 career boards.
...De Colo ranks ninth on the all-time scoring list with 2,672 career points?
...Rodriguez ranks fifth on the all-time assists list with 1,093 during his career?
...Kurbanov, Vorontsevich and Hines are in their fourth EuroLeague Championship Game appearance?
...De Colo could become the fifth player to win multiple Final Four MVP awards? Only Toni Kukoc (1990, 1991, 1993), Dejan Bodiroga (2002, 2003), Dimitris Diamantidis (2007, 2011) and Vassilis Spanoulis (2009, 2012, 2013) have managed to do so.
...De Colo ranks third in free throw shooting this season (94.4%). Jaycee Carroll of Real Madrid is in first place (96%), followed by his teammate Sergio Llull (95.7%).
...De Colo is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in free throw shooting percentage? He has made 680 of his 725 free throw attempts throughout his 166-game career, an impressive 93.8%!
Game Facts - Anadolu Efes Istanbul
Roster
No player has started every EuroLeague game for Efes this season. Adrien Moerman has started all but one.
Streaks
Shane Larkin has hit at least 1 three-point shot in 13 straight EuroLeague games. He's made multiple threes in eight straight games.
Larkin has scored in double figures in eight straight and 14 of his last 15 EuroLeague games.
Bryant Dunston has blocked at least 1 shot in six straight and 13 of his last 14 EuroLeague appearances.
James Anderson has made 13 consecutive free throws in EuroLeague action.
Adrien Moerman has made 10 consecutive free throws in EuroLeague action.
Rankings
Adrien Moerman is sixth in the league this season in rebounding with 6.1 per game.
Shane Larkin led the playoffs this season with 19.6 points and with 3.6 three-point shots made per game; he was fourth with an average PIR of 20.6.
Vasilije Micic ranks third in the league in assists this season with 5.5 per game.
Micic was second in the playoffs this season with 6.6 assists per game.
Micic finished the playoffs fifth with 1.6 steals per game.
Bryant Dunston is third in the league this season with 1.2 blocks per game.
Dunston was fourth in the playoffs this season with 5.6 rebounds per game.
Dunston led the playoffs this season with 1.8 blocks per game.
Records/Milestones
Bryant Dunston ranks second all-time with 230 blocks. He trails only Fran Vazquez (249).
Dunston is tied for eighth all-time with Mirsad Turkcan with 385 career offensive rebounds. Tibor Pleiss is tied with Victor Khryapa for eighth place all-time with 161 blocked shots. Mirza Begic is seventh with 162.
Brock Motum needs 1 more three-pointer to reach 100 for his EuroLeague career.
Vasilije Micic has 99 appearances in the EuroLeague. The championship game will be his 100th.
Game Facts - CSKA Moscow
Roster
Head coach Dimitris Itoudis has used 12 different players in CSKA's starting lineups this season; no player has started in every EuroLeague game.
Mikhail Kulagin remains sidelined after undergoing surgery on his left foot in January.
Streaks
Andrey Vorontsevich has made 13 straight free throws in EuroLeague games dating back to March 2017.
Cory Higgins has scored in double figures in 13 straight EuroLeague appearances.
Higgins has posted a performance index rating in double figures in 12 of his last 13 appearances.
Higgins has made at least 1 three-pointer in 12 of his last 13 EuroLeague games.
Rankings
Nando De Colo ranks second in the league in scoring this season with 14.73 points per game. Cory Higgins ranks third with 14.71 points per game.
Will Clyburn is sixth in the EuroLeague in average performance index rating with 17.5 per game this season and is fourth in rebounding with 6.9 per game.
De Colo is eighth this season in average performance index rating with 16.3 per game.
De Colo ranks third in free-throw accuracy this season with 94.44%.
Sergio Rodriguez is ninth in the league in assists this season with 4.7 per game.
Nikita Kurbanov is second in the league in three-point accuracy this season at 51.1%. Higgins is fifth at 47.5%.
De Colo was third in the playoffs this season with an average PIR of 20.8
De Colo was second in the playoffs this season with 18.0 points per game; Higgins was fourth with 14.3 points per game.
Clyburn was fifth in the playoffs this season with 5.5 rebounds per game.
Clyburn finished the playoffs fourth with 1.8 steals per game.
Sergio Rodriguez was third in the playoffs this season with 2.5 three-point shots made per game.
Records/Milestones
Nando De Colo has scored a total of 164 points in the Final Four; he is tied for fifth place all-time with Dejan Bodiroga and Theo Papaloukas. De Colo needs 6 more to reach Juan Carlos Navarro (170) for fourth place. Trajan Langdon (172) is third.
In 2016, De Colo became the first player to score 30 points in a semifinal game this century. Only former CSKA star Trajan Langdon scored more in any EuroLeague Final Four game this century (32 vs Partizan, third place game in 2010). Shane Larkin tied De Colo’s mark on Friday.
De Colo moved into a tie with Nikos Galis for the lead on the all-time Final Four list with 56 free throws made. He has made 56 of 58 for his career in Final Four games.
De Colo is the EuroLeague career leader in free-throw accuracy at 93.79%.
Kyle Hines is in third place on the all-time Final Four rebounding list with 71. He needs 2 rebounds to catch Matjaz Smodis for second place.
Hines is in fourth place on the all-time Final Four list with 47 two-point shots made. He needs 6 more to catch Theo Papaloukas (53) for third place.
Hines has 10 steals in Final Four history and needs 2 more to enter the top 10.
Hines ranks fourth all-time with 207 blocked shots. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv big man Alex Tyus is third with 209.
Hines is in second place in EuroLeague history with 511 offensive rebounds. Felipe Reyes is the all-time leader with 695.
Hines has moved into eighth place in competition history with 1,147 total rebounds. Kerem Gonlum is seventh with 1,189.
Sergio Rodriguez has moved into third place on the all-time Final Four charts with 48 assists. Sergio Llull is second with 52 and counting.
Rodriguez has 19 three-pointers made in Final Four history, tied for 10th place all-time.
Rodriguez ranks fifth all-time with 1,093 assists; Former CSKA great Milos Teodosic is fourth with 1,126.
Rodriguez is in ninth place all-time with 375 three-point shots made. CSKA great J.R. Holden is eighth with 377.
Rodriguez needs 5 steals to reach 200 for his EuroLeague career.
Nikita Kurbanov has made 199 career EuroLeague appearances. The championship game will be his 200th EuroLeague appearance.