The latest matchup in our quest to crown the greatest All-EuroLeague First Team of all time pits 2015 against 2025!
Vote for the best All-EuroLeague First Team in history: 2015 vs. 2025
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Each season, the top five players in Europe’s premier basketball competition are recognized with All-EuroLeague First Team honors. Over the past quarter century, these elite selections have showcased a who’s who of basketball legends, from rising stars to Hall of Famers and everything in between.
This summer, we're putting them all head-to-head to answer one big question: Which All-EuroLeague First Team stands above the rest?
We’ve seeded all 24 teams into a bracket created by our panel of in-house EuroLeague experts. Several times a week, we’ll reveal a new matchup on the official EuroLeague Instagram account, where you can vote for your favorite.
Right here on the official EuroLeague website, you’ll find a quick breakdown of each matchup – and which team we think deserves the edge. This time it's 2015 vs. 2025.
Let the debates begin. Let the voting begin. Let the best team win!
2015
- Milos Teodosic, CSKA Moscow (age 28)
- Vassilis Spanoulis, Olympiacos (age 32)
- Nemanja Bjelica, Fenerbahce (age 27)
- Felipe Reyes, Real Madrid (age 35)
- Boban Marjanovic, Crvena Zvezda (age 26)
2025
- TJ Shorts, Paris (age 27)
- Carsen Edwards, Bayern (age 27)
- Kendrick Nunn, Panathinaikos (age 29)
- Sasha Vezenkov, Olympiacos (age 29)
- Nigel Hayes-Davis, Fenerbahce (age 30)
What a difference a decade makes, right? The All-EuroLeague teams from 2015 and 2025 could not be more different. While the former came in a time when size and power were king, the latter is built on speed and shooting. The 2025 team has no real center and the 2015 team has limited perimeter speed.
So how would I imagine this matchup? I think Shorts, Edwards and Nunn would run their counterparts off the floor. Shorts dives to the basket – when they didn’t result in layups – would lead to open shots for Vezenkov and Hayes-Davis, even if that mean another swing pass to further break the 2015 defense.
There is no questioning that Teodosic would find Marjanovic for easy basket after easy basket with the 2025 forwards struggling to contain the massive center. But when Marjanovic tires, what is the 2015 Plan B? Reyes offers limited offensive upside and then the size advantage is gone. So I would pick 2025 hands down… Now go and vote for your choice!