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REAL MADRID: DID YOU KNOW THAT….
(CHAMPIONSHIP GAME EDITION)

...Real Madrid has the chance to win its 11th EuroLeague title? It leads the all-time standings with 10 titles, but only three of them have come in the last 35 years. Real has won the competition in 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1995, 2015 and 2018.

...Real is making its 20th EuroLeague Championship Game? Maccabi ranks second with 14 EuroLeague Championship Game appearances, plus the 2001 SuproLeague final. Real played seven EuroLeague finals in the 1960s, four in the 1970s, two in the 1980s, one in the 1990s, four in the 2010s and two in the 2020s. 

...Real has the chance to lift its 17th continental trophy? In addition to its 10 EuroLeague titles, Madrid has won four Saporta Cups, a Korac Cup and a ULEB Cup – currently 7DAYS EuroCup.

... Rudy Fernandez belongs to a select group of players to have won both the EuroLeague and the EuroCup titles? Fernandez won the EuroCup with DKV Joventut Badalona in 2008 and two EuroLeague crowns with Real in 2015 and 2018. The list includes two other Spanish players: Felipe Reyes and Ricky Rubio, and also features stars like Nando De Colo, Nick Calathes or Romain Sato. 

...Fernandez, Sergio Rodriguez and Sergio Llull belong to a group of 24 players who have won the EuroLeague, EuroBasket and World Championship titles? Llull, Rodriguez and Fernandez are three of the five players on the list not hailing from the former Soviet Union or former Yugoslavia; Felipe Reyes and Juan Carlos Navarro are the others. The list includes all-time greats such as Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic and Toni Kukoc.

...Fernandez headlines the short list of players to have won a World Championship, EuroBasket, EuroLeague and EuroCup? He is joined only by Dejan Tomasevic and Reyes. 

... Llull and Fernandez are in the sixth EuroLeague Championship Game with Real? They have been to the Championship Game in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2022. 

.. Rodriguez is in his fifth EuroLeaguie Championship game? It made it with Real in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and with CSKA Moscow in 2018. 

...Fernandez, Rodriguez and Llull already won the EuroLeague title with Madrid in 2015 and are still with the team? Rodriguez came back and is in his second stint with the club. 

...Adam Hanga can become the first Hungarian player to win the EuroLeague title? Kornel David came closest when he reached the championship game with Tau Ceramica in 2005.

…Hanga is the first player to make it to the Final Four with three different Spanish teams? Hanga played the 2016 Final Four with Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and also made it with FC Barcelona in 2021. He looks for his first EuroLeague title. 

...Llull ranks third on the Final Four's career scoring list? Llull has 191 points and could climb at least one spot in Kaunas. Nikos Galis leads the list with 231 points followed by J.R. Holden (194),. 

...Llull ranks first in assists in Final Four history? He dished 62 assists! Rodriguez ranks third with 56 assists. 

…Rodriguez is the only Spanish-born player to win the EuroLeague with a non-Spanish team (CSKA, 2019)? He is also the only Spanish player to win the EuroLeague with different teams. 

...Fernandez, Rodriguez and Llull can win their third EuroLeague title? The last Spanish players to win three EuroLeague titles were Rafael Rullan, Juan Antonio Corbalan and Luis Maria Prada with Real in 1974, 1978 and 1980.

...Tavares is the only player from Cape Verde to have won the EuroLeague! 

…Alberto Abalde and Eli Ndiaye can join an exclusive list of Adidas Next Generation Tournament MVPs who also won the EuroLeague title? Abalde was the ANGT MVP in 2013 with Joventut Badalona. Ndiaye was chosen as the 2022 ANGT MVP with Real. Luka Doncic is the only player to get both – he was the ANGT MVP in 2015 and won the EuroLeague in 2018 with Real. 

…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. Deck is currently injured but would be considered as EuroLeague champion.  . 
           

 
 
 
 
 
 

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