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| REAL MADRID: DID YOU KNOW THAT… |
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...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. Madrid has won the competition in 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1995, 2015 and 2018.
...Madrid looks to successfully defend the EuroLeague title for the first time in 51 years? Madrid won back-to-back EuroLeague titles twice - in 1964 and 1965 and again in 1967 and 1968.
...Madrid is making its 10th Final Four appearance since the format was adopted in 1988? Madrid previously reached the Final Four in 1993, 1995, 1996, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
...Madrid looks for its 19th EuroLeague Championship Game appearance? It leads the all-time list with 18 championship game appearances. Maccabi Tel Aviv has been to 14 EuroLeague and one SuproLeague title game. CSKA Moscow has reached the EuroLeague Championship Game 13 times.
...Madrid has the chance to lift its 17th continental trophy? In addition to its 10 EuroLeague titles, Madrid has won four Saporta Cups, one Korac Cup and one ULEB Cup.
...Felipe Reyes and Rudy Fernandez belong to a select group of players to have won both the EuroLeague and the EuroCup titles? Reyes lifted the then-called ULEB Cup trophy with Madrid in 2007 and Fernandez won it with DKV Joventut Badalona in 2008. Both won the EuroLeague with Madrid in 2015 and 2018. The list includes another Spanish player: Ricky Rubio won the EuroLeague with FC Barcelona in 2010 and the EuroCup with Joventut in 2008.
...Reyes and Fernandez belong to a group of 22 players who have won the EuroLeague, EuroBasket and World Championship titles? Reyes and Fernandez are two of the three players on the list not hailing from the former Soviet Union or former Yugoslavia; Juan Carlos Navarro is the other. The list includes all-time greats such as Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic and Toni Kukoc.
...Fernandez and Reyes headline the short list of players to have won a World Championship, EuroBasket, EuroLeague and EuroCup? They are joined only by Dejan Tomasevic.
...Coach Pablo Laso has previous Final Four experience as a player? He played at the 1995-96 EuroLeague Final Four with his current team, Real Madrid, coached by Zeljko Obradovic. He is entering his sixth Final Four as a head coach.
...Reyes and Sergio Llull are at their seventh Final Four? They were both previously there with Madrid in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
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