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| EuroLeague Regular Season - Round 34 MVP: Sterling Brown, Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade |
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A double-overtime thriller at Belgrade Arena gave Sterling Brown of Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade the perfect stage to claim Round 34 MVP honors with a PIR of 32.
Brown helped Partizan beat Valencia Basket 110-104 with 31 points on 5-of-10 two-pointers, 4-of-9 three-pointers and 9-of-9 free throws, adding 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 6 fouls drawn. His PIR of 32 was the highest among winning players in Round 34, and it earned him the first MVP of the Round honor of his EuroLeague career – making him the first Partizan player to claim the award this season.
Jordan Loyd of Anadolu Efes Istanbul had the highest index rating of the round, posting a 35 PIR in his team's 82-71 loss at Real Madrid. He finished with 21 points on 3-of-3 two-pointers, 4-of-6 three-pointers and 3-of-4 free throws, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 5 fouls drawn.
Elie Okobo amassed a PIR of 34 in AS Monaco’s 107-97 road loss against Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens, finishing with 24 points on 4-of-6 two-pointers, 5-of-6 three-pointers and 1-of-1 free throws, 1 rebound, 13 assists and 1 steal.
Zach LeDay of EA7 Emporio Armani Milan and Elijah Bryant of Hapoel IBI Tel Aviv each posted a PIR of 31 to round out the top individual performances of the round. LeDay had 19 points on 5-of-7 three-pointers, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in his team's 103-87 home win over Virtus Bologna. Bryant had 26 points on 9-of-11 two-pointers and 8-of-9 free throws, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in Hapoel's 118-109 road loss against Kosner Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Individual highs: Elie Okobo, Monaco, 13 assists
Brown was this round's top scorer with 31 points. Kendrick Nunn of Panathinaikos leads the overall standings with 19.5 points per game.
Mfiondu Kabengele of Dubai Basketball was the only player to reach double digits in rebounds, pulling down 12. Nikola Milutinov of Olympiacos Piraeus leads overall with 7.1 boards per night.
Okobo dished 13 assists – combined with his Round 33 output, he has tallied 26 assists over the last two rounds without a turnover. Codi Miller-McIntyre of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade is the competition's assists leader with 7.4 per game.
Arijan Lakic of Partizan collected a round-high 4 steals. Aleksa Avramovic of Dubai leads all players in this category 1.5 steals per game.
Mbaye Ndiaye of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne had 5 blocks in Round 34, the most of any player. Walter Tavares of Real Madrid is the runaway leader with 2.0 rejections per game.
Four players registered double-doubles in this round: Okobo (24 points, 13 assists), Jimmy Clark of Maccabi (23 points, 10 assists), Kabengele (24 points, 12 rebounds) and Thomas Heurtel of ASVEL (13 points, 10 assists).
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