Four players in the EuroLeague have averaged more than 20.0 PPG over the last five rounds
Who’s hot: Olympiacos star duo lighting it up
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The tight race for the Turkish Airilnes EuroLeague Top Scorer trophy seems to be coming down to two names – two stars from the Greece's archrival clubs, Olympiacos Piraeus's Sasha Vezenkov and Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens's Kendrick Nunn.
Vezenkov has entered the current February break with a EuroLeague-best 20.6 points per game average, while Nunn is right behind him with 20.5 PPG.
Nunn has actually scored the mosts points this season with 513 but has done so in 25 appearances, which is one more than Vezenkov’s 24-game output of 494 points.
In between them is FC Bayern Munich scorer Carsen Edwards, who has not missed a game through 26 rounds, and he is one point shy of 500 points on the season, averaging a third-best 19.2 PPG per game.
Edwards had been the scoring leader for the large part of the regular season, but he has been surpassed in recent weeks by Vezenkov and Nunn, two of the EuroLeague's top three scorers over the last five rounds.
Interestingly, Vezenkov is joined by a teammate atop the list of best scorers over the last five games – Evan Fournier. The Reds’ star duo are dead even, averaging 21.0 PPG since Round 22, with Nunn right behind at 20.8 PPG.
Amazingly, Vezenkov and Fournier’s combined 42.0 PPG account for 47.2% of Olympiacos's total scoring over this five-game span. Fournier has not scored fewer than 18 points in any of the five games, having started the run with a personal-best 28 points in a Round 22 road win over Real Madrid.
Vezenkov scored 13 in that win over Los Blancos, but then netted at least 19 in each of the last four games. He is also shooting 57.9% from long range, which is fifth best in the EuroLeague since Round 22.
Rounding out the list of top scorers over the last five games are Virtus Segafredo Bologna's Toko Shengelia (20.6 PPG) and EA7 Emporio Armani Milan's Zach LeDay (19.2 PPG). Each of these two particularly shined in Round 24, when Shengelia scored a career-high 35 on the road against Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, while LeDay poured in a career-best 33 in a home win over Panathinaikos.