Historic moment in the Euroleague: the maximum continental competition, which arrived in 2000 to replace the old and defunct European Cup, has reached one million points 25 years after its premiere. The extraordinary figure has been reached thanks to the work and grace of Theo Maledon, who scored a great triple with 43 seconds remaining in the first quarter of the match between Real Madrid and Paris Basketball, corresponding to the 17th round of the European tournament. who quickly echoed the news on their social networks and on the websitepointing out the reach of a spectacular number. And, as fate would have it, it was a player from the white team who signed it.
Since its debut on October 16, 2000, Euroleague teams had accumulated a total of 999,737 points in 6,358 games, before the start of play on Thursday night, and the number was beaten when Maledon scored from the outside. At the competition’s premiere a quarter of a century ago, the first points of the modern era were scored by Olympiacos’ Dino Radja in the inaugural match between Real Madrid (always involved in the story) and the Greek team on October 16, 2000. Since then, countless iconic moments have led to this historic achievement.
The Euroleague has highlighted some historic moments in all this time: Point 138,044 came when Derrick Sharp scored a legendary three-pointer for Maccabi against Zalgiris Kaunas on April 8, 2004, helping the Israelis on their way to the title. Point 392,858 came from Georgios Printezis, who scored the winning shot for Olympiacos against CSKA in the 2012 final, sealing one of the most incredible comebacks in history. Half a million was reached by Caleb Green, with Unicaja, with a triple on March 13, 2015. And point 853,315 bears the signature of Sergio Llull and his winning shot against Olympiacos (which is also in all of them) in the 2023 final.
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Regarding the list of players with the most points at the time of reaching one million, Mike James leads the list with 5,548, followed Nando de Colo (5,004), Vassilis Spanoulis (4,455), Sergio Llull (4,255) y Nikola Mirotic (4,241). By team, none has scored more than Barça, followed by Olympiacos. While the match that saw the highest total score was played on January 6, 2024, chen Real Madrid and Anadolu Efes finished with a score of 130-126 in a clash also played at the Movistar Arena that needed four overtimes to be decided.
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