In just its second season in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, AS Monaco qualified for the 2023 Final Four after beating Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv in a do-or-die Game 5 in their playoff series. One year after losing in a Game 5 to Olympiacos Piraeus, Monaco made amends this time around. Here are some other 'Did you know?' facts.
Monaco is going to its first Final Four. Monaco is the 29th team to reach the Final Four since the format was chosen in 1988.
Monaco reached the Final Four in just its second EuroLeague season. The last team to do so was Lokomotiv Kuban in 2016.
Monaco is the third French League team to make it to the Final Four? Limoges CSP made it three times – in 1990, 1993 and 1995 – and it became the champion in the middle of that run, in 1993. ASVEL Villeurbanne reached the 1997 Final Four.
Mike James is the only Monaco player with previous Final Four experience. James played in the 2016 Final Four with Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz.
