Name: Saben Lee announces himself to the EuroLeague! Motorola Magic Moment of the Night
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Just minutes into his Maccabi start, Saben Lee posterizes Ercan Osmani. Wow! 

Saben Lee announces himself to the EuroLeague! Motorola Magic Moment of the Night 

 Just minutes into his Maccabi start, Saben Lee posterizes Ercan Osmani. Wow! 

Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv v Anadolu Efes Istanbul (2024-10-15T18:05:00.000Z)

Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade-FC Bayern Munich | RS Round 3 Highlights | 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague

Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade v FC Bayern Munich (2024-10-15T18:45:00.000Z)

Paris Basketball held off a late charge from reigning Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens to claim its first-ever win in the competition, 84-80, at Accor Arena on Tuesday night. 

Paris holds off champs, 84-80, for maiden victory 

Paris Basketball held off a late charge from reigning Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens to claim its first-ever win in the competition, 84-80, at Accor Arena on Tuesday night. While Paris improved to 1-2 on the season, the Greens fell to 2-1.

Nadir Hifi paced the winners with 20 points. T.J. Shorts tallied 16 points and 7 assists and Collin Malcolm contributed 14 points for Paris. French national team player Mathias Lessort led Panathinaikos with 19 points and 11 rebounds, Kendrick Nunn posted 16 points and 8 rebounds and Lorenzo Brown scored 14 off the bench.

Marius Grigonis opened the scoring from deep for the champs before Kevarrius Hayes got Paris on the board. Lessort looked to make a mark with a basket inside and a block at the other end. With the score even, 7-7, both teams got a little sloppy with a series on turnover. Malcolm drained a go-ahead three for Paris before Hifi scored twice to make it 14-9.  Brown came off the bench to calm the visitors with a three only to see Hifi delight the fans with another bucket. Brown sank a pull-up jumper to end the first quarter with the hosts ahead 21-19.

Pristine Paris execution combined with poor Panathinaikos shooting as the hosts stretched the lead to 29-21 early in the second quarter. Mikael Jantunen scored twice inside and Paris was just getting going. Malcolm nailed another three and Shorts buried a pull-up jumper for the game’s first double-digit lead, 36-25. After a Panathinaikos timeout, Malcolm tripled once more and Hifi’s next three made it 42-27. Lessort helped the Greens trim the deficit to within 7 and Nunn’s jumper, with his first basket of the game, established the halftime line at 45-39.

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Nunn scored and came up with a steal that led to a free throw by Brown early in the second half. Hayes shined with a put-back dunk and Shorts helped bring the momentum back Paris’s way with a three-point play. Malcolm erupted after a steal and slam to make it 56-46. Lessort continued to fight for the Greens at both ends and Nunn made a key three. Tyson Ward’s dunk and Hifi’s third three of the night got the lead to 13 before Jerrian Grant’s three-pointer ended the third quarter with Paris up 69-59.

Lessort attacked the rim and got to the line, where he drew Panathinaikos within 71-64. Second-chance baskets by Juancho Hernangomez and Lessort prompted a Paris timeout at 73-68. Shorts, after missing 2 free throws, came up with a steal, drew a foul and then missed twice more from the line. Bandja Sy came to the rescue with a second-chance score. With 3:42 remaining, Panathinaikos head coach Ataman was called for a technical foul and Nunn for an unsportsmanlike foul that send Leopold Cavaliere to the bench holding his elbow. Hifi and Jantunen made free throws to restore a 10-point lead.  Grigonis’s three-point play in the penultimate minute gave the Greens hope and Nunn drained a three to make it a 5-point game. Then, with 8.9 seconds remaining, Hifi was called for a technical foul and Hernangomez made it a one-possession game with a triple. Sebastian Herrera’s free throw with 3.3 seconds left iced the win.   

 

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The hosts, who never trailed after the first quarter, held off a late Panathinaikos rally 

Paris Basketball v Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens (2024-10-15T18:30:00.000Z)

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Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz v Real Madrid (2024-10-15T18:30:00.000Z)

Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade registered its first win of the season, holding off the visiting FC Bayern Munich 86-78 in a packed Belgrade Arena on Tuesday night. Both teams now hold a 1-2 record, as they head into the second leg of the season's first double-round week.

Partizan wins home-opener, tops Bayern 86-78

Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade registered its first win of the season, holding off visiting FC Bayern Munich 86-78 in a packed Belgrade Arena on Tuesday night. Both teams now hold 1-2 records as they head into the second leg of the season's first two-round week.

Partizan took control with 6-for-7 three-point shooting in the first quarter, opening up a double-digit lead, and the margin was as big as 22 points in the second. Bayern rallied and got as close as 6 points late in the fourth quarter, but Partizan's lead was never really in question. 

Sterling Brown paced Partizan with 22 points, Carlik Jones scored 14, while Frank Ntilikina, Isaac Bonga and Tyrique Jones scored 13 apiece in victory. Andreas Obst netted 15 points for Bayern, Carsen Edwards scored 13, Nick Weiler-Babb had 12 points, Devin Booker 11 and Shabazz Napier 10 points in defeat.

The two teams traded baskets early on, with a triple from Weiler-Babb and a basket from Obst opening a 6-9 lead. But Bonga netted a triple to get Partizan going. Brown added 5 points, including his second triple, and then Bonga and Ntilikina knocked down back-to-back triples. Tyrique Jones's monster dunk made it 24-11. Danko Brankovic snapped the 13-0 run with a dunk, posterizing Aleksej Pokusevski, before Edwards ended the quarter with a three to make it 24-15.

Another triple from Brown helped the hosts open 32-17 margin, and after Booker had a three-point play, Brown nailed his fourth triple in as many attempts. Tyrique Jones scored inside for a 37-20 lead and after a three-pointer from Obst, Brown and Brandon Davies started an 8-0 run to increase the margin to 45-23. However, Bayern replied with a 2-9 run, which featured 5 more points from Obst, including a three-pointer, as Bayern cut the margin to 49-32 at halftime.

Edwards had back-to-back triples to start the third quarter, before a dunk from Johannes Voigtmann cut it to 51-41. Bonga and Voigtmann traded triples, and Booker's basket got Bayern within 54-46. But Ntilikina hit a jumper and the hosts made couple of defensive stands before Ntilikina netted a three to fuel an 8-0 run that made it 66-48. Oscar da Silva and Elias Harris managed baskets inside, but Ntilikina's triple put Partizan up 71-52 going into the fourth quarter.

Baskets were few and far between early in the fourth, before Napier banked in a triple, then added another one to cut it to 73-60. Partizan's offense slowed down, and a three-pointer from Weiler-Babb cut it to single digits. A basket from Obst made it a 7-point game, and when Partizan's Brown drove for a layup, Edwards nailed a wide-open corner three that cut the deficit to 78-72. But Iffe Lundberg, who had only had 2 points at that points, drove into the crowd for a three-point play and a 83-74 lead with 1:29 left to secure the outcome. 

In a very intense game that went down to the final seconds, Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz edged Real Madrid 74-71 at Buesa Arena in Round 3 on Tuesday. 


Baskonia outlasts Real Madrid, 74-71

In an intense game that came down to the final seconds, Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz edged Real Madrid 76-72 at Buesa Arena 3 on Tuesday. Baskonia improved to 2-1 in the standings while Real dropped to 1-2.

Markus Howard paced the winners with 15 points in less than 18 minutes and Chima Moneke added 14 points for Baskonia. Dzanan Musa led all scorers with 17 points, Walter Tavares posted 14 points and 15 rebounds, Mario Hezonja had 13 points while Gabriel Deck scored 11 for in defeat.

Tavares got Real going with consecutive dunks that Osumane Ndiaye erased with a put-back basket and a fadeaway jumper. Howard soon gave Baskonia its first lead, 7-4. Musa stepped up with a three-point play and Hezonja added a fadeaway jumper in a 0-7 run that Sergio Llull capped with a layup in transition. Howard struck from downtown and Trent Forrest matched Eli Ndiaye's block with a jumper. Hezonja took over with a driving layup that Forrest erased with a fastbreak dunk. Deck sank a corner three-pointer for a 16-18 Real lead after 10 minutes.

Serge Ibaka struck from beyond the arc early in the second quarter. Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot made a jump hook that Moneke bettered with a three-pointer to even things at 21-21. After Ibaka dunked, Forrest answered with a driving layup and Khalifa Diop's put-back slam prompted Real to call timeout at 25-23. Alberto Abalde and Luwawu-Cabarrot each scored in penetration and then Moneke hit a stop-and-pop triple in transition for a 30-25 Baskonia lead. Musa rescued Real with a fastbreak layup and Deck scored in transition in a 0-6 run that gave *Los Blancos* a 30-31 edge. Luwawu-Cabarrot and Kamar Baldwin each nailed three-pointers, but Tavares and Deck brought the visitors within 36-35 at halftime.

Tadas Sederkeskis bettered Musa's driving layup with a three-pointer soon after the break. Hezonja sank a wide open triple that Tavares followed with an alley-oop layup for a 39-42 Real lead. Diop followed a layup with a floater in a 7-0 run that Sedekerskis capped with his second triple for a 46-42 Baskonia lead. Llull answered from beyond the arc and Musa added an off-balance three-point play to give Real a 46-48 edge. Tavares dunked again and Deck added a backdoor layup that caused Baskonia to call timeout at 46-52. Luwawu-Cabarrot stepped up with a fastbreak layup to fix the score at 48-52 after 30 minutes.

Nikos Rogkavopoulos took over with a three-point play early in the fourth quarter and soon added a floater to put Baskonia in charge, 53-52. Xavier Rathan-Mates downed a triple, Deck added a fastbreak basket and Tavares dunked again, after which the hosts stopped the game at 53-59. Forrest stepped up with a layup, Musa and Howard each struck from beyond the arc and Moneke's layup made it 61-62. Howard bettered Musa's layup with a triple and Sedekerskis's floater gave Baskonia a 66-64 lead with over 3 minutes left. Hezonja struck from beyond the arc and sank another one to erase Moneke's triple. Diop sank a five-meter jumper for a 72-70 Baskonia lead with a minute left. Llull missed and Howard hit a baseline jumper with 15.3 seconds remaining. Tavares dunked and Real fouled Moneke with 10.2 seconds left. He hit both attempts and Llull missed twice from downtown seconds before the final buzzer.

Markus Howard and Chima Moneke were the hosts' two stars on the night

Baskonia outlasts Real Madrid, 76-72

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