Ephes won the first UEFA Basketball League title.
In the early morning of the 31st Beijing time, the 2020-2021 Euroleague season ended, and in the final match on the same day, Ephes from Turkey defeated the Barça men's basketball team 86-81 and won the European Basketball League championship for the first time in team history - Milan defeated CSKA to win the third place.
After the opening of the final between Ephes and the Barça men's basketball team, the Barça men's basketball team, coached by former Lithuanian star and NBA star Jaskovius, experienced a short struggle to occupy the initiative on the field. Shortly after the start of the second quarter, the Barça men's basketball team once took a 10-point lead.
Jasco Vertius was credited with Barca winning the UEFA Basketball League for the first time.
This final is the 8th appearance in the history of the Barça men's basketball team in the final of the European basketball final, although the previous Barça men's basketball team only won 2 championships and 5 Asian championships, but their last two finals were winners, and when they won the European Basketball League championship for the first time in the 2002-2003 season, Jasco Vicius was a member of the Barça men's basketball team and contributed 8 points and 1 assist in the final, but the core player of the Barça men's basketball team at that time was the Legendary Yugoslav superstar Bodi Loga.
Gasol returned to the Barça men's basketball team this season.
Just from the lineup of the two teams, the Barça men's basketball team is indeed the more dominant side. In addition to the manager is a legendary player career of Jasco Vicius, today's Barça squad also has Mirotic, Carlasis and many other well-known players, of course, it needs to be said that this season's Barça men's basketball team has also welcomed back Paul Gasol, although the big Gasol has won countless honors, but his honor room does lack a European Basketball League championship trophy - during the early career of playing for the Barça men's basketball team, Gasol only followed the Barça men's basketball team once to reach the top 4 and finally won only the 4th place. Interestingly, the Barça men's basketball team lost to Ephes in the 3rd and 4th place battles that year.
Micić helped Ephes win the championship.
Back to the game. The Barça men's basketball team, which had a 10-point lead, was quickly blocked by Ephes, because Ephes, like the Barça men's basketball team, did not lack well-known players in the squad. The team not only has Shaun Larkin, who has played for the NBA's Mavericks, Knicks and Nets, but also Singleton, who has played for the CBA Jiangsu men's basketball team, and James Anderson, who once played for the Rockets, in addition, the team's Misic from Serbia is also the MVP winner of this season's EuroBab regular season.
As a result, the game gradually fell to Ephes's side. By the end of the third quarter, Ephes had a seven-point lead. Because the UEFA Basketball League's Round of 4 and finals are also a decider, it also makes the lagging Barça men's basketball team only have to fight hard in the last quarter.
Mišić has won two MVP trophies this season.
The Barça men's basketball team almost saw the hope of counterattack, and with about 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Barça men's basketball team once again chased the score to 72-72 draw, but this also became the last madness of the Barça men's basketball team. With Larkin, Singleton and Misic scoring seven consecutive points, the Turkish team re-established the lead while also "killing" the suspense of the game in advance. At the same time that Ephes won the championship, Misic, who scored 25 points in both round-four games, also won the top four mvp, and he became the second player to win the EuroBab regular season mvp and the quarterfinals mvp in the same season after Doncic in the 2015-20116 season.
After 45 years of existence, Ephes became the 22nd team in history to win the Europa League title, and the second Turkish team to win the tournament after Fenerbahce (2016-2017 season).
Ephes became the 22nd team to win the Euroleague basketball championship.
From the 2018-2019 season to debut in the European basketball finals (83-91 defeat to CSKA), to the first Eurobaa in the history of the team this season, Ephes's performance in the last two seasons (2019-2020 season cancelled in the middle of the epidemic) can be described as extraordinary, and just looking back at Ephes's performance on the playoff stage this season, this team can only be admired for its historic victory.
As the top game of Professional Basketball in Europe, the Eurobau Basketball League is divided into two stages: the regular season and the playoffs, and the playoffs are divided into two parts: the playoffs and the final four. Aphis, who advanced to the playoffs in third place in the regular season, is playoff opponents against the Real Madrid men's basketball team, which has won the UEBA championship a total of 10 times – it is worth saying that after Doncic bid farewell to Real Madrid, Real Madrid has never reached the final of the EuroLeague, and this season has not qualified for the playoffs until the final round of regular season.
Ephes has a thrilling elimination of the Real Madrid men's basketball team.
Facing a "not as good as ever" giant team, Ephes quickly took a 2-0 lead in the playoffs, and won a net of 50 points over Real Madrid in both games. The Real Madrid men's basketball team, which was forced to the edge of the cliff, also showed the style of the old strong team, and Real Madrid dragged the game into the decider after two consecutive thrilling wins.
However, in the final "grab five", Apheus did not let Real Madrid continue the performance of the previous two games, after the 88-83 victory, Ephes successfully advanced to the top 4, and the Real Madrid men's basketball team missed the top 4 for the first time since the 2016-2017 season.
The Ephes players celebrate the elimination of CSKA by their team.
After reaching the round of 4, Ephes, whose semi-final opponents were CSKA, who had won the Eurobau Basketball League a total of eight times and were defending champions, after a huge advantage of 16 points in the first three quarters, the fourth quarter was a bit powered down, so the Russian giants continued to narrow the point gap, and with only one minute left in the game, the score was close to 86-87. But Sean Larkin's 4-on-2 of last-minute free throws helped Ephes end up laughing 89-86, and he managed to avenge his way to the final for the second consecutive season.
10-time champions Real Madrid, 8-time champions CSKA, two-time champions Barcelona... Three championship teams have lost to Ephes and become victims of their "championship road", and this historic crown of Turkey's dark horse is enough to make even the most critical people dumbfounded.
Gasol failed to win the Euroleague basketball league.
However, for Paul Gasol, who only has 1 point and 3 rebounds in this game, his first EuroLeague basketball championship may only be a dream that can never be realized.