On the back of last week's morale-boosting win in Piraeus, Zvezda (17-13) will attempt to keep climbing the standings by downing floundering Virtus (7-23).
Game Notes: Zvezda vs. Virtus



Home team coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos will hope his injury problems in the paint ease, but he can rely on backcourt leadership from Codi Miller-McIntyre after his double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds in the win at Olympiacos. Isaiah Canaan will be another major threat after netting 3 triples in each of the last three games. Virtus has lost eight straight, going down by double digits in the last four, but still has the motivation of avoiding the wooden spoon. Some optimism comes from the return of Will Clyburn, who netted 13 points on his comeback from injury in last week's loss to Maccabi.
Game Videos
- Crvena Zvezda set a club record with 7 blocks in a 94-79 win over Virtus last season in Belgrade.
- Zvezda rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to pull out an 87-94 win against Virtus in Round 14.
- Virtus head coach Dusko Ivanovic coached Zvezda from November 2022 until October 2023. He guided the team to 2023 Serbian League and Cup double.
- Zvezda forward Rokas Giedraitis played under Coach Ivanovic at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz during the 2020-21 and the first part of the 2021-22 season.
- Giedraitis was a teammate of Virtus big man Achille Polonara in the first of those seasons.
- Milos Teodosic spent four seasons at Virtus and helped the team win the 2022 EuroCup as the EuroCup Finals MVP.
- Ognjen Dobric played for Vitus last season.
- Zvezda center Joel Bolomboy was a teammate of Virtus forwards Will Clyburn and Torrnike Shengelia and guard Daniel Hackett at CSKA Moscow. Bolomboy, Hackett and Clyburn played together at CSKA for four seasons, from 2018 to 2022, and won the 2019 EuroLeague together. Shengelia was there with them for two seasons, from 2020 to 2022.
- Virtus guard Daniel Hackett played under Zvezda head coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos at Olympiacos Piraeus for two seasons, from 2015 to 2017. They reached the EuroLeague 2017 championship game together.
- Daniel Hackett and Zvezda big man Luka Mitrovic were teammates at Brose Bamberg in the 2017-18 season.
- Virtus center Ante Zizic played for two seasons, from 2020 to 2022, under current Zvezda head coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos at Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv.
- Clyburn, his Virtus teammate Ante Zizic and Zvezda's Mike Daum were teammates at Anadolu Efes Istanbul last season
- Daniel Hackett set his career highs in PIR (39) and three-pointers made (6) while playing for CSKA Moscow in an overtime loss against Zvezda in October 2020.
- Virtus's Isaia Cordinier blocked a career-high 3 shots in an 85-79 home win over Zvezda in October 2023.