Chris Singleton saved some of his most decisive basketball for the most important occasion of the 2021-22 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season. After spending much of the campaign with a less prominent role for Anadolu Efes Istanbul than in the past, the veteran forward was vital in his team's championship game triumph.
The 29 minutes 20 seconds that Singleton spent on the court against Real Madrid on the last day of the Final Four in Belgrade were the most he had played all season and fourth-highest of all players in the title game. Although he scored just 4 points, Singleton used his time to great effect, grabbing 7 rebounds and 2 steals to epitomize his team's gritty defensive effort in battling for a 58-57 victory worth the EuroLeague's first back-to-back title in almost a decade. Crucially, one of Singleton's 3 offensive rebounds led to Tibor Pleiss scoring the decisive final basket with 1:05 to play.