The Greens also claimed head-to-head advantage over Vassilis Spanoulis’s side
Panathinaikos downs Monaco, 76-88, secures top-four spot

Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens has secured home-court advantage in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs by defeating AS Monaco 76-88 at Salle Gaston Medecin on Thursday evening. The Greens led for the majority of the game, with Kendrick Nunn pulling off an extraordinary display that inspired his team’s victory.
Panathinaikos also claimed head-to-head advantage over Monaco and improved its record to 21-12. The hosts saw their three-game winning streak come to a close and dropped to 20-13.
Nunn led all scorers with 37 points and a career-high PIR of 43, with Jerian Grant adding 14 points. Daniel Theis paced Monaco with 18 points, Alpha Diallo scored 16, Elie Okobo had 13 and Jaron Blossomgame netted 12.
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An exchange of blows in the opening stages saw Monaco take a 7-4 lead, with Theis netting 5 points. Okobo and Nunn opened their accounts from inside before buckets from Blossomgame and Diallo made it 13-9. But Panathinaikos responded with a 0-7 run fueled by Cedi Osman, who scored 5 points in transition. Back-to-back baskets from Konstantinos Mitoglou were followed by a Grant triple that opened a 18-27 lead. Blossomgame responded from deep, but Nunn netted 5 straight points for a 21-32 cushion after 10 minutes.
Nunn hit the ground running in the second quarter, taking his tally to 13 points and extending Panathinaikos’s lead to 25-40. Okobo and Nunn traded triples before 4 points by Theis slightly cut the difference to 36-49. Mike James scored his first points of the game from beyond the arc and Okobo netted a buzzer-beating jumper that brought Monaco within 41-49 thanks to an 11-2 surge to finish the first half.
Okobo opened the third quarter with a three before buckets by Blossomgame and Diallo slashed the deficit to 48-49. Panathinaikos was held scoreless for 9 minutes across the second and third quarters before 9 points and an assist by Nunn restored a 48-60 lead. Blossomgame answered with a triple, but Omer Yurtseven’s second straight dunk allowed the visitors to maintain a 51-62 cushion. Then, an on-fire Nunn completed a three-point play to make it 53-65 heading into the closing quarter.
Buckets by Yurtseven sandwiched a Matthew Strazel triple before a Diallo layup in transition brought Monaco within 64-71. A three-point play from Kostas Sloukas was followed by a triple from Okobo, who made it 69-74. Grant and Nunn replied with back-to-back midrange jumpers, 69-78. Then, Nunn nailed another three and Grant made 2 of 3 from the charity stripe to finish the game off.