The veteran forward ended his regular-season campaign on a high
Round 34 MVP: Nikola Mirotic, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan
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The final round of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season saw a career game from one of its biggest stars, as Nikola Mirotic dominated for EA7 Emporio Armani Milan and took home the 10th MVP of the Round award of his 276-game career.
Mirotic posted a personal-high PIR of 40 in Milan’s 111-89 win over Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz. Mirotic scored 23 points on 5-for-8 two-point shooting, 3-of-4 triples and 4-of-4 free throws. He pulled down 10 rebounds, had 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, while drawing 6 fouls. All of that in just 24 minutes on the floor. His 10th MVP of the Round award sees him tie Vasilije Micic for the sixth most all-time.
The next-best PIR, 35, belonged to Kendrick Nunn of Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens. In a 111-104 win over Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade, Nunn netted 31 points, making 3-of-8 twos, 6-of-10 threes and all 7 of his free-throw attempts, while dishing 10 assists and pulling down 3 rebounds.
Nigel Hayes-Davis of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul had a 32 PIR in his team’s 77-89 win at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul. Hayes-Davis collected 24 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals and a block. Milan’s Zach LeDay posted 31 PIR, scoring 32 points on 6-for-10 shooting from both two-point and three-point range, along with 5 rebounds and 2 assists. Rounding out the list of top performers in the final round of the regular season are Juancho Hernangomez of Panathinaikos and Neal Sako of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne, each with 29 PIR. Hernangomez had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 3 steals, while Sako finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds in a 78-83 loss against AS Monaco.
Individual highs: Zach LeDay, Milan, 32 points
Zach LeDay led all scorers in the regular-season finale with 32 points. Nunn finished as season’s top scorer with an average of 21.1 points per game.
Trevion Williams of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv pulled down 13 rebounds, the most in Round 34. Joel Bolomboy of Crvena Zvezda took the honors as the regular season’s top rebounder with 8.3 boards per night.
Nigel Williams-Goss of Olympiacos Piraeus had 13 assists, more than any other player in this round. TJ Shorts of Paris Basketball leads the league with 7.5 dimes per contest.
Paris center Kevarrius Hayes had 4 steals in the final round of the regular season. Nick Weiler-Babb of FC Bayern Munich tops the steals charts with 1.6 per game.
ASVEL’s Andre Roberson had 3 blocks, the most in this round. Georgios Papagiannis of Monaco is the league’s top shot-blocker with 1.4 per game.
There were eight double-doubles in Round 34: ASVEL’s duo of Roberson (14 points, 12 rebounds) and Sako (20 points, 11 rebounds), Panathinaikos pair Nunn (31 points, 10 assists) and Juancho Hernangomez (18 points, 11 rebounds), Maccabi’s Williams (17 points, 13 rebounds), Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade’s Isaac Bonga (14 points, 11 rebounds), Real Madrid’s Serge Ibaka (11 points, 10 rebounds), and Mirotic (23 points, 10 rebounds).