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unusual facts about Euroleague



1978–79 FIBA European Champions Cup

This final was a last in impressive line of ten consecutive finals for Varèse, and is also notable for KK Bosna's Žarko Varajić scoring 45 points, a still active record in a number of points scored in Euroleague finals.

2009 Euroleague American Tour

Overall, in spite of the fact that Euroleague teams seemed unable to threaten their NBA competition within the USA, they demonstrated some of the advantages that make them high-class basketball organizations: Solid fundamentals, outstanding team play and some of the greatest players of FIBA Basketball like Theo Papaloukas, Milos Teodosic, Aleks Maric, Ioannis Bourousis and Sofoklis Schortsianitis to name a few.

2009–10 Euroleague Final Four

The 2009–10 Euroleague Final Four was held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, France on May 7 and 9, 2010, to determine the winner of the 2009–10 Euroleague.

2012 NBA Europe Live Tour

The 2012 NBA Europe Live Tour was a basketball exhibition tour featuring teams from the NBA and the Euroleague.

Fragiskos Alvertis

In the 1995-96 season Alvertis saw NBA legend Dominique Wilkins join the team and the Euroleague title seemed closer than ever.

Giannis Giannoulis

He is one of only two Greek players in history, along with Dimos Dikoudis, to compete in the Euroleague with 4 different teams.

Gintaras Einikis

After 2 moderate seasons, he moved to Idea-Slask, where he averaged 9 points per game and 4.4 rebounds per game in 22 minutes of Euroleague action.

Harold Pressley

Following his NBA experience, he signed a contract with Joventut Badalona of the Spanish ACB league, winning two consecutive championships in 1991 and 1992 and reaching the 1992 Euroleague final alongside Jordi Villacampa and Corny Thompson.

International Basketball League

David Jackson, former NBA player and Euroleague player, former Oregon Duck

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The song was chosen on February 5, 2004, in voting during the program "Israel Selects a Song" held during a break in a televised Maccabi Tel Aviv Euroleague basketball game at which videos of four songs sung by D'Or were shown.

Kyle Hill

After being selected in the 2001 NBA Draft, Hill immediately went to Europe and signed with the French team ASVEL, where he played in the Euroleague with Nikola Vujčić, where he averaged 13.4 points per game and won the French Cup.

Mansour Kasse

In 2011/2012, he has been a dominant power-forward in Real Madrid B (Spanish’s EBA division), coached by Alberto Angulo, and he has been training and traveling with the Real Madrid's first team, in Spanish ACB League and Euroleague.

Marijonas Petravičius

With the club's three leaders injured: himself, Matthew Nielsen and Roberts Štelmahers, Rytas failed to enter the Euroleague quarterfinals.

Miki Berkovich

In 1977 helped Maccabi to win its first European Championship, defeating Mobilgirgi Varese 78:77 in the final held in Pionir Hall, Belgrade and CSKA Moscow 91:79 in semifinal group game held in Virton, Belgium, an achievement that produced Tal Brody's famous sentence "We are on the map, not only in basketball".

NBA TV Canada

NBA TV Canada broadcasts programming primarily related to the National Basketball Association (NBA), as well as coverage of other basketball leagues including the Euroleague and the WNBA.

Olympiacos B.C. season 2007-08

Meanwhile, in Europe the team qualified for the third phase (quarter-finals) of the Euroleague, where it was eliminated by CSKA Moscow.

Panagiotis Giannakis

In 1995, Giannakis moved to Panathinaikos, where he finally won the Euroleague title in 1996, in Paris.

Radoslav Nesterović

He helped Virtus win the Euroleague title, playing alongside legendary players such as Predrag Danilović, Zoran Savić, and Antoine Rigaudeau.

Sportska televizija

Also, there will be some international sports, like World Rally Championship, ATP or WTA tournaments, 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2013 IIHF World Championship, waterpolo Euroleague and gymnastics World Cup.

Unicaja

It is the name sponsor of the ACB basketball club CB Málaga, a frequent participant in the Euroleague, and of the volleyball club CV Almería, and is also a major sponsor, though not name sponsor, of Málaga CF.


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