Four Olympiacos players netted at least 17 points apiece
Undermanned Olympiacos defeats Maccabi, 99-93, to clinch top spot

Olympiacos Piraeus has mathematically secured top spot in the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season standings by beating Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 99-93 at the Peace and Friendship Stadium on Thursday night. In a highly entertaining encounter, the hosts saw four of their players net at least 17 points each and register as many as 30 assists to down the Israeli side. Olympiacos improved its record to 24-10, with Maccabi dropping to 11-23.
Evan Fournier led all scorers with 27 points, Sasha Vezenkov scored 21, Moses Wright netted 18 and Alec Peters added 17. Nigel Williams-Goss scored just 2 points, but he had a career-high 13 assists. Trevion Williams paced Maccabi with 17 points and 13 rebounds, with Rokas Jokubaitis and Roman Sorkin bagging 16 points apiece. Jimmy Clark recorded 11 points in a losing effort.
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Sorkin got Maccabi going with four straight points before a basket by Jaylen Hoard on his return to action from injury gave the guests a 2-6 lead. Tamir Blatt, Levi Randolph and Jokubaitis netted one each from deep to make it 10-17. Moses Wright took his tally to 6 early points from inside before back-to-back threes by Peters and another from Vezenkov put Olympiacos ahead, 21-20. Fournier took over with two triples in a row for a 31-28 cushion after a high-scoring first quarter.
The second quarter opened with another rain of threes, as Clark, Peters, Blatt and John DiBartolomeo all hit the target, with the latter giving Maccabi a 34-38 advantage. But Olympiacos fought back, with Wright slamming home a dunk, Shaquielle McKissic nailing a triple and Vezenkov scoring inside to make it 51-48 at halftime.
Olympiacos opened the third quarter with a 10-2 run fueled by Vezenkov and Kostas Papanikolaou. Williams and Sorkin scored inside, but Saben Lee netted an off-balance jumper against his former team to restore a 66-56 lead. Yet, Maccabi replied with a 4-14 surge fueled by Williams to tie it at 70-70 heading into the closing quarter.
Ten points from Fournier and a long two by Peters gave Olympiacos an 84-79 cushion midway through the fourth. Sorkin responded with 5 straight points on the other end, but a red-hot Fournier drilled one from way downtown to restore an 89-84 lead. Then, Fournier scored a floater and Peters made 2 of 2 from the charity stripe to finish the game off.