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CSKA Moscow vs. Real Madrid
· CSKA has a 17-7 advantage over Real in their meetings this century. CSKA swept Madrid this regular season, holding it off 89-93 in Round 10 as Cory Higgins led the winners with 24 points and Will Clyburn added 18 in the victory. CSKA then edged Real 82-78 in Round 22 with Nando De Colo scoring 21 points.
· CSKA and Real faced each other for the first time in the 1963 EuroLeague final. It was a two-game series; Real won Game 1 at home 86-69, but CSKA downed Los Blancos by the same margin, 91-74, in Moscow. The teams had to play a tie-breaking Game 3 in Moscow, which CSKA won 99-80.
· CSKA and Real made it to the EuroLeague final in 1965. It was a two-game series and CSKA won the opener 88-81. Real recorded a 14-point victory at home to win its second continental crown on point difference.
· In the longest single-game EuroLeague final, CSKA and Real Madrid had to battle for 50 minutes in the 1969 championship game. Vladimir Andreev had 37 points in helping CSKA beat Real in double overtime, 103-99, in Barcelona.
· In the 2017 third-place game, CSKA defeated Real 94-70. Kyle Hines led six CSKA scorers in double figures with 14 points and 7 rebounds.
· In the 2018 Final Four semifinals, Real beat CSKA 92-83 behind 16 points apiece from Luka Doncic and Sergio Llull, while Gustavo Ayon collected 12 points and 11 rebounds.
· CSKA guard Sergio Rodriguez played for Real Madrid from 2010 to 2016, and in those six seasons made four Final Four appearances, won the 2015 title and was named 2014 EuroLeague MVP. He was a teammate of current Real players Sergio Llull and Felipe Reyes for the entire time there, played five seasons under Coach Pablo Laso and was a teammate for five seasons with Rudy Fernandez and Jaycee Carroll. Rodriguez also played alongside Facundo Campazzo, Gustavo Ayon, Trey Thompkins and Jeffery Taylor during his years in Madrid.
· CSKA big man Othello Hunter played for Real Madrid during the 2016-17 season and helped the team compile the best regular season record and reach the Final Four.
· CSKA guard Nando De Colo and Real guard Fabien Causeur have been teammates on the French national team. They played together at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
· Real Madrid sharpshooter Klemen Prepelic played under current CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis at Banvit Bandirma during the 2013-14 season.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov and Real's Trey Thompkins were teammates at Nizhny Novgorod when the club made its EuroLeague debut in 2014-15.
· Big men Nikita Kurbanov of CSKA and Anthony Randolph of Real Madrid were teammates at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2014-15 season.
· Real point guard Facundo Campazzo scored a career-high 23 points against CSKA in Round 10 this season.
· Rudy Fernandez set a career-high with 28 points against CSKA in March 2014. He accumulated a performance index rating of 33 and earned MVP honors for Round 11 of the Top 16 with that effort in a 93-79 win.
· Fernandez collected a career-best 13 rebounds against CSKA in January 2013. He was also named MVP for Round 6 of the 2012-13 Top 16 following that performance in which he scored 20 points and had a PIR of 34 as CSKA won 86-78 in overtime.
· Real Madrid guard Fabien Causeur posted his career highs with 5 steals and 6 assists playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against CSKA in January 2015 and had his career high in rebounds with 10 playing for Baskonia against CSKA in March of that year.
· Anthony Randolph posted his career high in offensive rebounds with 8 playing for Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar against CSKA in the 2016 Final Four semifinals. It is the most offensive rebounds ever in a Final Four game.
· Real Madrid center Gustavo Ayon posted his career high in defensive rebounds with 11 against CSKA in an 82-69 home win in October of last season.
· Real center Ognjen Kuzmic posted his career high in index rating with 31 playing for Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade against CSKA in December 2016.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov had the best game of his EuroLeague career, tying his career-high with 16 points, setting his career-best with 3 blocks, and accumulating a career-high index rating of 22 playing for Nizhny Novgorod against Real Madrid in December 2014.
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.
...CSKA is playing at its 16th Final Four in the last 17 years? CSKA now leads the all-time list with 18 Final Four appearances.
...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.
...Andrey Vorontsevich enters his ninth Final Four, which ties him for second among players? He previously played the Final Four with CSKA in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Theo Papaloukas also had nine Final Four appearances. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings with 12 appearances, all of them with CSKA.
...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.
...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.
...CSKA is in its eighth consecutive Final Four? That ties the longest streak ever. CSKA also previously held the record with eight consecutive Final Four appearances from 2003 to 2010.
...two CSKA players – Hines and Vorontsevich – have been to each of the last eight Final Fours? Only Hines has done so with two different teams (Olympiacos 2012, 2013; CSKA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
...De Colo could join the list of the top 10 scorers in Final Four history? Two former CSKA players, Matjaz Smodis and Ramunas Siskauskas, are tied for 10th place with 147 points. De Colo has 141.
...Hines ranks fourth on the Final Four's all-time rebounds list. He has 67 rebounds in Final Four action. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings (107), followed by Smodis (73) and David Andersen (70).
...Rodriguez is eighth in assists (44) in Final Four history? He needs 3 to jump to third place. Theo Papaloulas leads the list (59), followed by Rodriguez's former Real Madrid teammate Sergio Llull (50).
...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 ninth on the all-time rebounding list (1,143)? He could climb 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 2,649 career points?
...Rodriguez ranks fifth on the all-time assists list with 1,126 during his career?
...Kurbanov, Vorontsevich and Hines seek their fifth EuroLeague Championship Game appearance with CSKA?
...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 (94.6%). Jaycee Carroll of Real Madrid enters the Final Four in first place (95.7%), followed by his teammate Sergio Llull (95.5%).
...De Colo is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in free throw shooting percentage? He has made 667 of his 711 free throw attempts throughout his 166-game career, an impressive 93.8%!
REAL MADRID: DID YOU KNOW THAT…
...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.
...Jaycee Carroll and Fernandez are at their sixth Final Four? They already played the Final Four with Madrid in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
...Reyes leads the EuroLeague's all-time rebounding charts? Reyes is first with 1,780 rebounds. He is also the runaway leader in offensive rebounds with 695 – almost 200 more than anyone else!
...Reyes also leads the charts in career games played (344) and is ranked second in free throws made (957), third in both scoring (2,992 points) and two-point shots made (959) and fourth in performance index rating (3,745 PIR).
...Llull is one of three EuroLeague MVPs present at the Final Four? Llull earned that honor two seasons ago. The other two play for CSKA - Nando De Colo was the EuroLeague MVP in 2015-16 and Sergio Rodriguez earned that honor with Madrid in the 2013-14 season.
...Llull is the sixth-best scorer in EuroLeague history? He has amassed 2,834 points in 265 EuroLeague career games.
...Fabien Causeur is the only French player to have reached the Final Four with two different foreign teams? Causeur made it to the Final Four with Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz in 2016 and with Madrid the last two seasons.
...Fernandez, Llull, Reyes, Facu Campazzo, Gustavo Ayon and Carroll as well as Coach Laso already won the EuroLeague title with Madrid in 2015 and are back to this year's Final Four? Madrid has 13 of the players who won the EuroLeague title last season, too.
...Llull ranks ninth on the Final Four's career scoring list? Llull has 150 points and could climb a few spots in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Nikos Galis leads the list with 231 points followed by J.R. Holden (194) and Trajan Langdon (172).
...Llull has a good chance to climb into first place on the Final Four's career assists list? He already ranks second with 50 assists. Theo Papaloukas leads the all-time charts with 59 assists in Final Four action.
...Fernandez is tied for fourth place in steals in Final Four history? He has collected 17, just like Theo Papaloukas. Holden ranks first (24), followed by Victor Khryapa (22) and Dimitris Diamantidis (18).
...Fernandez, Llull and Reyes 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 Madrid in 1974, 1978 and 1980.
...Carroll leads the 2017-18 EuroLeague in free throw shooting percentage? He's hit 45 of 47 attempts - 95.7%! Llull ranks second with 42 of 44 free throws made (95.5%).
...Walter Tavares, the only player from Cape Verde to have won the EuroLeague, leads the EuroLeague in blocks at 1.66 per night?
...Tavares leads the EuroLeague in two-point shooting percentage this season (78.7%, 100 of 127) and is also ranked first all-time (175 of 237, 73.8%)?
...Jeffery Taylor is the only Swedish player to have won the EuroLeague? His teammate Melwin Pantzar can join him if Madrid lifts the trophy again.
...Madrid leads the EuroLeague in team performance index rating at 103.1 per game? It is also first in defensive rebounds (27.0 drpg.) and assists (20 apg.) and third in scoring (85.5 ppg.).
· CSKA has a 17-7 advantage over Real in their meetings this century. CSKA swept Madrid this regular season, holding it off 89-93 in Round 10 as Cory Higgins led the winners with 24 points and Will Clyburn added 18 in the victory. CSKA then edged Real 82-78 in Round 22 with Nando De Colo scoring 21 points.
· CSKA and Real faced each other for the first time in the 1963 EuroLeague final. It was a two-game series; Real won Game 1 at home 86-69, but CSKA downed Los Blancos by the same margin, 91-74, in Moscow. The teams had to play a tie-breaking Game 3 in Moscow, which CSKA won 99-80.
· CSKA and Real made it to the EuroLeague final in 1965. It was a two-game series and CSKA won the opener 88-81. Real recorded a 14-point victory at home to win its second continental crown on point difference.
· In the longest single-game EuroLeague final, CSKA and Real Madrid had to battle for 50 minutes in the 1969 championship game. Vladimir Andreev had 37 points in helping CSKA beat Real in double overtime, 103-99, in Barcelona.
· In the 2017 third-place game, CSKA defeated Real 94-70. Kyle Hines led six CSKA scorers in double figures with 14 points and 7 rebounds.
· In the 2018 Final Four semifinals, Real beat CSKA 92-83 behind 16 points apiece from Luka Doncic and Sergio Llull, while Gustavo Ayon collected 12 points and 11 rebounds.
· CSKA guard Sergio Rodriguez played for Real Madrid from 2010 to 2016, and in those six seasons made four Final Four appearances, won the 2015 title and was named 2014 EuroLeague MVP. He was a teammate of current Real players Sergio Llull and Felipe Reyes for the entire time there, played five seasons under Coach Pablo Laso and was a teammate for five seasons with Rudy Fernandez and Jaycee Carroll. Rodriguez also played alongside Facundo Campazzo, Gustavo Ayon, Trey Thompkins and Jeffery Taylor during his years in Madrid.
· CSKA big man Othello Hunter played for Real Madrid during the 2016-17 season and helped the team compile the best regular season record and reach the Final Four.
· CSKA guard Nando De Colo and Real guard Fabien Causeur have been teammates on the French national team. They played together at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
· Real Madrid sharpshooter Klemen Prepelic played under current CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis at Banvit Bandirma during the 2013-14 season.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov and Real's Trey Thompkins were teammates at Nizhny Novgorod when the club made its EuroLeague debut in 2014-15.
· Big men Nikita Kurbanov of CSKA and Anthony Randolph of Real Madrid were teammates at Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar during the 2014-15 season.
· Real point guard Facundo Campazzo scored a career-high 23 points against CSKA in Round 10 this season.
· Rudy Fernandez set a career-high with 28 points against CSKA in March 2014. He accumulated a performance index rating of 33 and earned MVP honors for Round 11 of the Top 16 with that effort in a 93-79 win.
· Fernandez collected a career-best 13 rebounds against CSKA in January 2013. He was also named MVP for Round 6 of the 2012-13 Top 16 following that performance in which he scored 20 points and had a PIR of 34 as CSKA won 86-78 in overtime.
· Real Madrid guard Fabien Causeur posted his career highs with 5 steals and 6 assists playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against CSKA in January 2015 and had his career high in rebounds with 10 playing for Baskonia against CSKA in March of that year.
· Anthony Randolph posted his career high in offensive rebounds with 8 playing for Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar against CSKA in the 2016 Final Four semifinals. It is the most offensive rebounds ever in a Final Four game.
· Real Madrid center Gustavo Ayon posted his career high in defensive rebounds with 11 against CSKA in an 82-69 home win in October of last season.
· Real center Ognjen Kuzmic posted his career high in index rating with 31 playing for Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade against CSKA in December 2016.
· CSKA forward Semen Antonov had the best game of his EuroLeague career, tying his career-high with 16 points, setting his career-best with 3 blocks, and accumulating a career-high index rating of 22 playing for Nizhny Novgorod against Real Madrid in December 2014.
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.
...CSKA is playing at its 16th Final Four in the last 17 years? CSKA now leads the all-time list with 18 Final Four appearances.
...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.
...Andrey Vorontsevich enters his ninth Final Four, which ties him for second among players? He previously played the Final Four with CSKA in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Theo Papaloukas also had nine Final Four appearances. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings with 12 appearances, all of them with CSKA.
...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.
...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.
...CSKA is in its eighth consecutive Final Four? That ties the longest streak ever. CSKA also previously held the record with eight consecutive Final Four appearances from 2003 to 2010.
...two CSKA players – Hines and Vorontsevich – have been to each of the last eight Final Fours? Only Hines has done so with two different teams (Olympiacos 2012, 2013; CSKA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).
...De Colo could join the list of the top 10 scorers in Final Four history? Two former CSKA players, Matjaz Smodis and Ramunas Siskauskas, are tied for 10th place with 147 points. De Colo has 141.
...Hines ranks fourth on the Final Four's all-time rebounds list. He has 67 rebounds in Final Four action. Victor Khryapa leads the all-time standings (107), followed by Smodis (73) and David Andersen (70).
...Rodriguez is eighth in assists (44) in Final Four history? He needs 3 to jump to third place. Theo Papaloulas leads the list (59), followed by Rodriguez's former Real Madrid teammate Sergio Llull (50).
...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 ninth on the all-time rebounding list (1,143)? He could climb 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 2,649 career points?
...Rodriguez ranks fifth on the all-time assists list with 1,126 during his career?
...Kurbanov, Vorontsevich and Hines seek their fifth EuroLeague Championship Game appearance with CSKA?
...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 (94.6%). Jaycee Carroll of Real Madrid enters the Final Four in first place (95.7%), followed by his teammate Sergio Llull (95.5%).
...De Colo is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in free throw shooting percentage? He has made 667 of his 711 free throw attempts throughout his 166-game career, an impressive 93.8%!
REAL MADRID: DID YOU KNOW THAT…
...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.
...Jaycee Carroll and Fernandez are at their sixth Final Four? They already played the Final Four with Madrid in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
...Reyes leads the EuroLeague's all-time rebounding charts? Reyes is first with 1,780 rebounds. He is also the runaway leader in offensive rebounds with 695 – almost 200 more than anyone else!
...Reyes also leads the charts in career games played (344) and is ranked second in free throws made (957), third in both scoring (2,992 points) and two-point shots made (959) and fourth in performance index rating (3,745 PIR).
...Llull is one of three EuroLeague MVPs present at the Final Four? Llull earned that honor two seasons ago. The other two play for CSKA - Nando De Colo was the EuroLeague MVP in 2015-16 and Sergio Rodriguez earned that honor with Madrid in the 2013-14 season.
...Llull is the sixth-best scorer in EuroLeague history? He has amassed 2,834 points in 265 EuroLeague career games.
...Fabien Causeur is the only French player to have reached the Final Four with two different foreign teams? Causeur made it to the Final Four with Laboral Kutxa Vitoria Gasteiz in 2016 and with Madrid the last two seasons.
...Fernandez, Llull, Reyes, Facu Campazzo, Gustavo Ayon and Carroll as well as Coach Laso already won the EuroLeague title with Madrid in 2015 and are back to this year's Final Four? Madrid has 13 of the players who won the EuroLeague title last season, too.
...Llull ranks ninth on the Final Four's career scoring list? Llull has 150 points and could climb a few spots in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Nikos Galis leads the list with 231 points followed by J.R. Holden (194) and Trajan Langdon (172).
...Llull has a good chance to climb into first place on the Final Four's career assists list? He already ranks second with 50 assists. Theo Papaloukas leads the all-time charts with 59 assists in Final Four action.
...Fernandez is tied for fourth place in steals in Final Four history? He has collected 17, just like Theo Papaloukas. Holden ranks first (24), followed by Victor Khryapa (22) and Dimitris Diamantidis (18).
...Fernandez, Llull and Reyes 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 Madrid in 1974, 1978 and 1980.
...Carroll leads the 2017-18 EuroLeague in free throw shooting percentage? He's hit 45 of 47 attempts - 95.7%! Llull ranks second with 42 of 44 free throws made (95.5%).
...Walter Tavares, the only player from Cape Verde to have won the EuroLeague, leads the EuroLeague in blocks at 1.66 per night?
...Tavares leads the EuroLeague in two-point shooting percentage this season (78.7%, 100 of 127) and is also ranked first all-time (175 of 237, 73.8%)?
...Jeffery Taylor is the only Swedish player to have won the EuroLeague? His teammate Melwin Pantzar can join him if Madrid lifts the trophy again.
...Madrid leads the EuroLeague in team performance index rating at 103.1 per game? It is also first in defensive rebounds (27.0 drpg.) and assists (20 apg.) and third in scoring (85.5 ppg.).
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 12 straight EuroLeague appearances.
Higgins has posted a performance index rating in double figures in 13 of his last 14 appearances.
Higgins has made at least 1 three-pointer in 12 straight EuroLeague games.
Nando De Colo has made 14 free throws in succession in EuroLeague games.
Rankings
Cory Higgins ranks second in the league in scoring this season with 14.8 points per game. Nando De Colo ranks fourth with 14.5 points per game, and Will Clyburn ranks ninth averaging 13.2 points per game.
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 ninth this season in average performance index rating with 16.0 per game.
De Colo ranks third in free-throw accuracy this season with 94.64%.
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 48.96%.
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, and 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 141 points in the Final Four. He needs 6 more to reach the top 10 all-time. Matjaz Smodis and Ramunas Siskauskas are tied for 10th place with 147 points.
In 2016, De Colo became the first player to score 30 points in a semifinal game this century. It was the fifth most in a Final Four semifinal game. Only former CSKA star Trajan Langdon scored more in any EuroLeague Final Four game this century (32 vs Partizan, third place game in 2010).
De Colo is in sixth place on the all-time Final Four list with 43 free throws made. He needs 2 more to catch his former teammate Milos Teodosic (45) for fifth place. De Colo is 43 of 44 from free throw line for his career in Final Four games.
De Colo is the EuroLeague career leader in free-throw accuracy at 93.81%.
Kyle Hines is in fourth place on the all-time Final Four rebounding list with 67. He needs 3 rebounds to catch David Andersen for third place.
Hines is in sixth place on the all-time Final Four list with 44 two-point shots made. He needs 1 more to catch Zoran Savic (45) for fifth place and 2 shots to catch Dejan Bodiroga (46) for fourth.
Hines has 10 steals in Final Four history and needs 2 more to enter the top 10.
Hines ranks fourth all-time with 206 blocked shots. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv big man Alex Tyus is third with 209.
Hines is in second place in EuroLeague history with 509 offensive rebounds. Felipe Reyes is the all-time leader with 695.
Hines is in ninth place in competition history with 1,143 total rebounds. David Andersen is eighth with 1,145.
Sergio Rodriguez is in eighth place on all-time Final Four charts with 44 assists. With 3 more assists, he will move into sole possession of third place in the Final Four all-time.
Rodriguez has 16 three-pointers made in Final Four history and needs 3 more to enter the top 10 all-time.
Rodriguez ranks fifth all-time with 1,089 assists; Former CSKA great Milos Teodosic is fourth with 1,126.
Rodriguez is tied with retired Panathinaikos star Dimitris Diamantidis for ninth place all-time with 372 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 198 career EuroLeague appearances.
Game Facts - Real Madrid
Roster
There have been 13 different starters for Madrid this season. No player has started every game.
After missing the playoffs with a strained muscle, Sergio Llull has returned to action in domestic play and is fit for the Final Four.
Streaks
Sergio Llull has made at least 1 three-pointer in 12 of his last EuroLeague 13 games.
Trey Thompkins has made 10 consecutive free throws in EuroLeague action.
Thompkins has made at least 1 three-pointer in nine straight EuroLeague appearances.
Walter Tavares has posted a PIR of 13 or more in seven of his last eight EuroLeague appearances.
Rudy Fernandez has made at least 1 three-pointer in seven consecutive EuroLeague appearances.
Rankings
Walter Tavares is fifth in the league this season in rebounding with 6.2 per game. Gustavo Ayon is seventh with 6.0 per game.
Tavares is fifth in the league in offensive rebounds with 2.2 per contest.
Tavares leads the league in blocked shots this season with 1.7 per game.
Facundo Campazzo is fifth in the league in assists this season with 4.9 per game. He is third with 1.6 steals per game.
Jaycee Carroll leads the EuroLeague in free throw accuracy this season with 95.74%. Sergio Llull is second at 95.45%
Tavares leads the EuroLeague in two-point accuracy this season at 78.74%. Gabriel Deck is seventh at 67.2%.
Campazzo was second in the playoffs this season with an average PIR of 24.3
Campazzo led the playoffs this season with 8.3 assists per game.
Campazzo led the playoffs this season with 3.0 steals per game. Rudy Fernandez was ninth with 1.3 per game.
Tavares was second in the playoffs this season with 7.0 rebounds per game. Ayon was sixth with 5.3 rebounds per game.
Tavares was second in the playoffs this season with 1.7 blocks per game.
Records/Milestones
Felipe Reyes is the EuroLeague career rebounding king with 1,780 total rebounds and 695 offensive rebounds.
Reyes is the EuroLeague career leader in games played with 344.
Reyes is ranked third all-time in EuroLeague scoring with 2,992 points.
Reyes ranks third all-time with 959 two-point shots made. Georgios Printezis of Olympiacos Piraeus is second with 966.
Sergio Llull is ninth in all-time Final Four scoring with 150 points. David Andersen (154) is eighth and Milos Teodosic (155) is seventh.
Llull is in second place on the all-time Final Four charts with 50 assists. He needs 10 more to go past all-time leader Theo Papaloukas.
Llull has 23 three-pointers made in Final Four history, which is tied for fourth place all-time with Trajan Langdon. He needs 3 more to catch Milos Teodosic for third place. J.R. Holden and Juan Carlos Navarro lead the standings with 30 three-pointers apiece.
Llull ranks sixth on the EuroLeague all-time charts with 2,834 points. Georgios Printezis is fifth with 2,914.
Llull ranks sixth on the all-time charts with 1,024 assists. Sergio Rodriguez of CSKA Moscow is fifth with 1,089 and counting.
Llull ranks fourth in EuroLeague history with 429 three-pointers made. Vassilis Spanoulis is third with 450 and counting.
Rudy Fernandez is tied with Theo Papaloukas in fourth place on all-time Final Four charts with 17 steals. He needs 1 more to catch Dimitris Diamantidis for third place.
Fernandez is tied with Gianluca Basile for fifth place all-time with 261 steals. Nick Calathes is fourth with 266.
Fernandez is sixth all-time with 395 three-pointers made. Gianluca Basile is fifth with 421.
Walter Tavares is the all-time EuroLeague leader in two-point accuracy at 73.84%.
Jaycee Carroll has 19 three-pointers made in Final Four history, which is tied for ninth place all-time. He needs 2 more to catch David Blu (21) for eighth place.
Carroll ranked is sixth all-time in free throw accuracy at 91.0%.
Carroll is 11th all-time with 355 three-point shots made. Sergio Rodriguez of CSKA Moscow and the retired Dimitris Diamantidis are tied for ninth with 372 three-pointers.