Rasheed Sulaimon and Yogi Ferrell combined for 29 points and 12 assists
Buducnost downs Trefl in Sopot, 69-81

Buducnost VOLI Podgorica started 2025 with a bang by downing Trefl Sopot 69-81 on the road in Round 13 on Thursday. Buducnost improved to 6-7 in Group B while Trefl dropped to 0-13 and is mathematically eliminated from postseason contention.
Rasheed Sulaimon paced the winners with 15 points. Yogi Ferrell added 14, Fletcher Magee scored 13 and Kenan Kamenjas got 11 for Buducnost. Sulaimon and Ferrell each dished 6 assists. Aaron Best led Trefl with 17 points. Geoffrey Groselle added 16, Jakub Schenk had 10 while Nick Johnson dished 10 assists for the hosts.
Jaroslaw Zyskowski got Trefl going with a triple in transition that Ferrell bettered with a wild four-point play for a 3-4 Buducnost lead. Zyskowski kept pacing the hosts with an acrobatic put-back floater and Best's fastbreak layup gave Trefl a 7-4 lead. After Andrija Slavkovic struck from downtown, Mikolaj Witlinski and Nikola Tanaskovic traded layups. Kamenjas arrived to give the visitors a 9-13 lead. Ferrell scored off a steal in a 0-8 run that Tanaskovic capped from the foul line. Best struck from beyond the arc and Groselle followed a layup with a jump hook to bring Trefl within 16-20. Juwan Morgan and Sulaimon each buried a three-pointer to make it a double-digit game, 16-26, after 10 minutes.
Alen Omic scored around the basket early in the second quarter and Magee bettered Witlinski's layup with a bomb from downtown for an 18-31 Buducnost lead. Schenk hit a jumper, Sulaimon scored in penetration and Johnson downed a mid-range shot that made it 22-33. Mateo Dreznjak found his first points before Groselle forced Buducnost to call timeout at 25-35. Schenk and Best rescued Trefl with back-to-back three-pointers to bring the visitors within 32-38. Tanaskovic stepped up with a backdoor layup and got help from Magee and Kamenjas to keep Buducnost in control, 35-45, at halftime.
Kamenjas kept pushing the visitors with a layup and a fastbreak basket soon after the break. Witlinski stepped up with a layup-plus-foul and Best's fastbreak basket prompted Buducnost to call timeout at 40-49. Sulaimon and Ferrell each sank a three-pointer. Groselle answered with a put-back basket but Ferrell matched him with a jumper and used the backboard to feed Kamenjas for an alley-oop slam. Best tried to change things with a driving layup that Ferrell erased with a jumper for a 42-57 Buducnost lead. Johnson improved on Slavkovic's jump hook with a triple before Omic followed a tip-in with a layup that fixed the score at 49-67 through three quarters.
Sulaimon buried his third three-pointer early in the fourth quarter. Magee beat the shot clock with a wild step-back jumper that caused Trefl to call timeout at 49-72. Schenk tried to change things with 5 quick points. Buducnost started to use longer possessions, trusting Ferrell to make the right decisions. Magee finished one of those with a catch-and-shoot three-pointer that sealed the outcome, 54-75. Trefl kept fighting, pushed by a great crowd. Morgan's two-handed dunk allowed Buducnost to seal an important victory in style.