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1939 Lithuania won EuroBasket in Riga in 1937 and in Kaunas in 1939. The next gold took 64 years.

101:95 Greece beat a USA team with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony 101-95 in the 2006 World Championship semi-final.

2004 At the Athens Olympics, Manu Ginóbili's Argentina beat the USA in the semi-final and went on to win gold.

2006 Spain became world champions in Japan, and Pau Gasol was named MVP even though a broken foot kept him out of the final.

2017 Slovenia, with Goran Dragić and an 18-year-old Luka Dončić, won EuroBasket 2017. Dragić was named MVP.

2002 Yugoslavia won the 2002 World Championship in Indianapolis, while the host USA finished only sixth.

1936 Basketball made its Olympic debut in Berlin in 1936. The final was played outdoors, on clay, in pouring rain.

1932 FIBA was founded in Geneva in 1932. Latvia was among the eight founding members, Lithuania was not.

2005 Dirk Nowitzki led Germany to the 2005 EuroBasket final and was named tournament MVP.

1992 Lithuania's 1992 bronze-winning team collected their medals in Barcelona wearing tie-dye T-shirts sponsored by the Grateful Dead.

2 Frank Lubin won Olympic gold with the USA in 1936, then, as Pranas Lubinas, led Lithuania to the 1939 European title.

6 The Kaunas Sports Hall was built in six months for EuroBasket 1939, making Kaunas the first European city with an arena designed for basketball.

24:23 Lithuania won the 1937 EuroBasket final in Riga against Italy by a single point, 24-23. Pranas Talzūnas was named the best player of the tournament.

23:21 At the first women's EuroBasket in 1938, Lithuania beat hosts Italy 23-21, yet Italy took the title and Lithuania settled for silver.

1995 Šarūnas Marčiulionis was MVP and top scorer of EuroBasket 1995 in Athens, averaging 23.7 points a game.

80:74 Lithuania won bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics by beating Australia 80-74 in the third-place game.

83:85 Lithuania led the USA 80-79 with 1:36 left in the Sydney 2000 semi-final but lost 83-85. Šarūnas Jasikevičius's last long shot missed.

75:87 Lithuania finished fourth at the 2008 Olympics after losing the bronze-medal game 75-87 to Argentina.

99:88 Lithuania won their first World Championship medal in Turkey in 2010, beating Serbia 99-88 for bronze.

67:64 Lithuania beat Serbia 67-64 in the EuroBasket 2015 semi-final in Lille, reaching their second European final in a row.

72:62 Lithuania's women won EuroBasket 1997 in Hungary, beating Slovakia 72-62 in the final.

2011 Jonas Valančiūnas was MVP of the 2011 U19 World Championship in Latvia, averaging 23 points and 13.9 rebounds as Lithuania won gold.

96:85 Slovenia beat Lithuania 96-85 in Kaunas in 2021 to reach its first ever Olympics, leaving the hosts without a ticket to Tokyo.

110:104 Lithuania beat the USA 110-104 at the 2023 World Cup in Manila, handing the Americans their first defeat of the tournament.

4 Four Lithuanians, including Stepas Butautas and Justinas Lagunavičius, played for the Soviet team that won EuroBasket 1947 in Prague, the USSR's first title.

1936 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was in Berlin in 1936 to hand out the first Olympic basketball medals, to the USA, Canada and Mexico.

12 None of the 12 US players ever accepted their silver medals from the 1972 Munich Olympics. The medals sit unclaimed in Lausanne.

1976 Women's basketball joined the Olympics in Montreal in 1976, and the Soviet Union won the first gold.

86:77 With the USA boycotting Moscow 1980, Yugoslavia beat Italy 86-77 in the final for its only Olympic basketball gold.

1980 Soviet guard Sergei Belov lit the Olympic cauldron at the 1980 Moscow opening ceremony, a rare honour for a basketball player.

3 Spain have won three Olympic silver medals, in 1984, 2008 and 2012, and lost all three finals to the USA.

1989 In 1989 the FIBA Congress in Munich voted 56 to 13 to let NBA players into international competition, opening the door for the Dream Team.

44 The 1992 Dream Team won all eight of its Olympic games in Barcelona by an average of almost 44 points.

55 Brazil's Oscar Schmidt scored 55 points against Spain at the 1988 Olympics, still the Olympic single-game record by 2025.

48 Luka Dončić scored 48 points against Argentina in his Olympic debut in 2021. Only Oscar Schmidt has scored more in one Olympic game.

2000 At the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Vince Carter jumped clean over 2.18 m French centre Frédéric Weis for one of the most famous dunks ever.

92:73 Puerto Rico beat an NBA-packed USA 92-73 in the opening game of the 2004 Athens Olympics, led by guard Carlos Arroyo.

156 At London 2012 the USA beat Nigeria 156-73, the most points ever scored in an Olympic game. Carmelo Anthony had 37 of them.

2016 Serbia lost three major finals in four years: the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics and EuroBasket 2017.

42 Patty Mills scored 42 points as Australia beat Slovenia 107-93 for bronze in Tokyo, the Boomers' first Olympic medal after several lost bronze games.

17 In the Paris 2024 semi-final the USA trailed Serbia by 17 points, then came back to win 95-91 behind 36 points from Stephen Curry.

24 Serbia were 24 points down against Australia in the Paris 2024 quarter-final and still won in overtime.

4 France have four Olympic silver medals in men's basketball, from 1948, 2000, 2020 and 2024, and lost every one of those finals to the USA.

6 Diana Taurasi won six Olympic golds with the USA, from 2004 to 2024, more than any other basketball player.

8 The USA women won eight Olympic golds in a row from 1996 to 2024. The 2024 final against France ended 67-66.

5 Teresa Edwards was the first basketball player to play at five Olympics, from 1984 to 2000, winning four golds and a bronze.

43 Lauren Jackson came out of retirement and won Olympic bronze with Australia in Paris at 43. It was her fifth Olympic medal.

3x3 3x3 basketball made its Olympic debut in Tokyo, and Latvia won the first men's gold.

1956 Uruguay won Olympic bronze twice in a row, in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956.

2004 Yao Ming carried China's flag at the opening ceremonies of two Olympics, in 2004 and 2008.

1952 Bob Kurland won Olympic gold in 1948 and 1952 but never turned pro, choosing a job with oil company Phillips 66 and its works team instead.

120:115 Brazil trailed the USA by 20 at half-time of the 1987 Pan American Games final in Indianapolis, then won 120-115. Oscar Schmidt scored 46.

90:87 Weeks before the Tokyo Olympics, Nigeria beat the USA 90-87 in an exhibition game in Las Vegas.

1950 The first World Championship was played in Buenos Aires in 1950, and hosts Argentina won it.

1954 The Philippines won bronze at the 1954 World Championship in Brazil, still the best result by an Asian men's team by 2025.

1959 At the 1959 World Championship the Soviet Union refused to play Taiwan and was dropped to sixth place. Brazil took the title.

1963 Brazil won the World Championship in 1959 and defended it at home in Rio de Janeiro in 1963, the first country to win it twice in a row.

1970 Yugoslavia won its first world title at home, in Ljubljana in 1970.

82:81 Yugoslavia won the 1978 World Championship final in Manila 82-81 over the Soviet Union, after overtime.

95:94 The Soviet Union won the 1982 World Championship final in Cali, Colombia, beating the USA by a single point, 95-94.

87:85 A US team of college players, with David Robinson, beat the Soviet Union 87-85 in the 1986 world final in Madrid.

1990 Toni Kukoč was MVP of the 1990 World Championship in Argentina, the last World Championship Yugoslavia played before breaking apart.

137:91 Dream Team II crushed Russia 137-91 in the 1994 world final in Toronto, and Shaquille O'Neal was named MVP.

64:62 With NBA players locked out, Yugoslavia beat Russia 64-62 in the 1998 world final in Athens. Dejan Bodiroga was named MVP.

2002 Dirk Nowitzki was MVP and top scorer of the 2002 World Championship with 24 points a game, and Germany took bronze.

81:64 Kevin Durant was MVP of the 2010 World Championship as the USA beat hosts Turkey 81-64 in the Istanbul final.

1967 The World Cup trophy is named after the inventor of basketball: the Naismith Trophy has been awarded since 1967.

32 The 2019 World Cup in China was the first with 32 teams.

5 Latvia played their first ever World Cup in 2023 and finished fifth.

1935 The first EuroBasket was played in Geneva in 1935, and Latvia won it.

34:32 Czechoslovakia won the first post-war EuroBasket, in Geneva in 1946, beating Italy 34-32 in the final.

1949 Egypt won EuroBasket 1949 on home court in Cairo.

1955 Hungary won EuroBasket 1955 at home in Budapest, the country's only European title.

63 France's Eddy Terrace scored 63 points against Albania at EuroBasket 1957, still the tournament record. Luka Dončić's 47 against France in 2022 is next.

14 The Soviet Union won 14 EuroBasket titles between 1947 and 1985, more than any other country.

8 Yugoslavia won eight EuroBasket titles, the last in 2001. By 2025 Serbia had not won one on its own.

2 Only two players have been EuroBasket MVP twice by 2025: Krešimir Ćosić (1971, 1975) and Pau Gasol (2009, 2015).

85:63 Spain won their first EuroBasket in Poland in 2009, thrashing Serbia 85-63 in the final.

78:67 Yugoslavia won its first EuroBasket in Barcelona in 1973, beating hosts Spain 78-67 in the final.

1979 Israel reached the EuroBasket final in 1979, losing to the Soviet Union, and Miki Berkovich was named MVP.

1983 Italy won their first EuroBasket in Nantes, France, in 1983, beating Spain in the final.

37 Nikos Galis averaged 37 points a game at EuroBasket 1987 and led Greece to their first title, beating the Soviet Union 103-101 after overtime.

1989 Dražen Petrović was MVP of EuroBasket 1989 as Yugoslavia won at home in Zagreb.

1991 At EuroBasket 1991 Slovenian guard Jure Zdovc left the Yugoslav team in the middle of the tournament as war broke out in Slovenia.

71:70 Germany won EuroBasket 1993 at home, beating Russia 71-70 in the final in Munich. Centre Chris Welp was named MVP.

1999 Italy won their second EuroBasket in Paris in 1999, with Slovenian-born forward Gregor Fučka named MVP.

2001 Peja Stojaković was MVP of EuroBasket 2001, won by Yugoslavia 78-69 against hosts Turkey in the Istanbul final.

40 Pau Gasol scored 40 points as Spain beat hosts France in overtime in the EuroBasket 2015 semi-final in Lille.

2025 Finland reached their first ever EuroBasket semi-final in 2025, then lost the bronze game 89-92 to Greece.

21 The Soviet women's team won 21 of the 22 EuroBaskets it played between 1950 and 1991.

2015 Venezuela won their first FIBA Americas Championship in Mexico City in 2015, beating Argentina 76-71 in the final.

16 China have won the Asian championship, now the FIBA Asia Cup, 16 times, more than any other country.

2007 Iran won their first Asian title in 2007 and added two more, in 2009 and 2013.

2017 Australia joined FIBA Asia competitions in 2017 and won the Asia Cup at the first attempt, beating Iran 79-56 in the final.

12 Angola have won AfroBasket 12 times, more than any other country, including six in a row from 1999 to 2009.

1962 Egypt won the first AfroBasket in 1962, competing as the United Arab Republic.

2010 In 2010 FIBA moved its three-point line from 6.25 m to 6.75 m and changed the trapezoid-shaped lane into a rectangle.

30 Until 2000 FIBA games had a 30-second shot clock and two 20-minute halves. Then came 24 seconds and four 10-minute quarters.

3 Svetislav Pešić coached Germany to the 1993 EuroBasket title, then led Yugoslavia to EuroBasket gold in 2001 and the world title in 2002.

1956 Bill Russell won Olympic gold in Melbourne in 1956 and only then, in December that year, made his debut for the Boston Celtics.

17 Arvydas Sabonis was only 17 when he won the 1982 World Championship with the Soviet Union in Colombia.

1964 Bill Bradley won Olympic gold in Tokyo in 1964, then studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Later he won two NBA titles with the Knicks and served three terms as a US senator.

136:57 The Dream Team's first game was in Portland, not Barcelona. On 28 June 1992 it beat Cuba 136-57 at the Tournament of the Americas.

94:90 Lithuania beat the USA 94-90 in the group stage of the 2004 Athens Olympics. Šarūnas Jasikevičius scored 28, with three straight threes in the fourth quarter.

2013 France played at the very first EuroBasket in 1935 but did not win the European title until 2013, when Tony Parker was named MVP.

7 Under Gregg Popovich, the USA finished seventh at the 2019 World Cup in China, the worst result in the country's World Cup history.

4 Kevin Durant won Olympic gold in 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024, the first man to win four in basketball. He is also the USA's top Olympic scorer.

101:100 Days before Paris 2024, the USA beat Olympic debutants South Sudan only 101-100 in a London friendly. LeBron James scored the winner with 8 seconds left.

3 Greece took three Antetokounmpo brothers to EuroBasket 2022: Giannis, Thanasis and Kostas. A fourth brother, Alex, had been named in the wider squad.

2021 At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, NBA forward Rui Hachimura carried the host nation's flag at the opening ceremony, together with wrestler Yui Susaki.

19-11-11 Nikola Jokić had 19 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists as Serbia beat Germany 93-83 for bronze in Paris in 2024. It was the fifth triple-double in Olympic history.

74:65 Nigeria won its first AfroBasket in 2015, beating Angola 74-65 in the final in Tunisia. NBA forward Al-Farouq Aminu made the tournament's All-Star Five.

98:88 Japan, with NBA forward Yuta Watanabe, came back from 18 points down to beat Finland 98-88 at the 2023 World Cup. It was their first ever World Cup win over a European team.

1973 Wayne Brabender gave up his US citizenship in 1968 to play for Spain. At EuroBasket 1973 he was named MVP as Spain took silver.

83:82 In Argentina's first game at Athens 2004, Manu Ginóbili's off-the-glass floater with under four seconds left beat Serbia and Montenegro 83-82.

83:63 At their first Olympics, in Barcelona in 1992, Angola crushed the hosts, Spain, 83-63.

64 At London 2012 Great Britain beat China 90-58 for their first Olympic win in 64 years, since the 1948 Games, which were also in London.

18 In the Tokyo 2021 semi-final Japan's Rui Machida made an Olympic-record 18 assists as Japan beat France 87-71 to reach its first final.

90:79 South Sudan won their first ever Olympic game in 2024, beating Puerto Rico 90-79. Before tip-off the organisers had played Sudan's anthem by mistake.

18:17 In the Paris 2024 men's 3x3 final the Netherlands beat France 18-17 in overtime, while Lithuania took bronze.

21 A 3x3 game ends when a team reaches 21 points or after 10 minutes. Teams get 12 seconds to shoot, and a shot from beyond the arc is worth two.

58 Uļjana Semjonova, 2.13 m tall, wore size 58 shoes. In 1993 she became the first non-American woman inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame.

1984 Pat Summitt won Olympic silver as a US player in 1976 and gold as coach in 1984, the first US Olympian to win basketball medals in both roles.

1994 In 1994 Brazil's women became world champions, beating China 96-87 in the final. It ended 41 years in which only the USA and the Soviet Union had won the title.

1953 The first women's World Championship, in 1953, was played outdoors at Chile's national stadium in Santiago. The USA beat the hosts 49-36 in the final.

2006 Australia's women won their first world title in Brazil in 2006, beating Russia 91-74 in the final. Penny Taylor was MVP.

1984 South Korea's women won Olympic silver in Los Angeles in 1984, still their only Olympic medal.

105:94 In 1974 the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the USA finished level at the World Championship. The Soviets had to beat the USA by at least four in the last game, and won 105-94.

1984 FIBA introduced the three-point line, at 6.25 m, in 1984. It made its Olympic debut in Seoul in 1988.

38 115 On the opening day of the 2023 World Cup, 38,115 fans at the Philippine Arena watched the Philippines play the Dominican Republic, a World Cup record.

1957 After a military coup, Argentina's 1950 world champions were declared professionals and banned from basketball in 1957. The evidence: cars they had been given as rewards.

1950 After his basketball ban, Óscar Furlong, MVP of the 1950 World Championship, took up tennis and later coached Argentina's Davis Cup team.

54 The World Cup single-game scoring record belongs to South Korea's Hur Jae, who scored 54 points against Egypt in 1990.

92 The biggest win in World Cup history: in 1974 the Soviet Union beat the Central African Republic 140-48, a 92-point margin.

251 The highest-scoring World Cup game came in 1978, when Brazil beat China 154-97: 251 points in all.

40 Angola's Eduardo Mingas played at the 2019 World Cup aged 40, the oldest player in the tournament's history.

41 Brazil's Ubiratan Pereira Maciel played 41 World Cup games at five tournaments from 1963 to 1978, a record.

2019 Until 2010 the tournament was called the World Championship, and from 2014 the World Cup. The men's event then moved to 2019 to avoid clashing with football's World Cup.

11/12 At the 1987 junior world championship in Bormio, 18-year-old Toni Kukoč made 11 of 12 threes against the USA, and Yugoslavia won 110-95.

74:69 In the 2007 U19 World Championship final, hosts Serbia beat a US team featuring Stephen Curry 74-69.

94:87 In 1999 a young Spain side with Pau Gasol, Juan Carlos Navarro and Felipe Reyes won the U19 World Championship in Lisbon, beating the USA 94-87 in the final.

1993 In 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina's players escaped besieged Sarajevo across no-man's-land near the airport to play at EuroBasket.

38 Spain won silver at the first EuroBasket in 1935, then waited 38 years for their next medal, in 1973.

6 Alexander Gomelsky won six EuroBaskets with the Soviet Union, more than any other coach.

4 Sergio Scariolo won four EuroBaskets with Spain: in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2022.

67:65 In 2025 Belgium's women retained the EuroBasket title, again beating Spain in the final, this time 67-65. Emma Meesseman was MVP both times.

2 Serbia's women won EuroBasket in 2015 and 2021, beating France in both finals.

5 In 2021 Japan's women won their fifth straight Asia Cup, beating China 78-73 in the final.

2013 Mexico won the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship even though they only got in as a replacement for disqualified Panama. Gustavo Ayón was MVP.

16 In 2025 Brazil won the AmeriCup in Managua, their first title in 16 years, at the first edition held in Central America.

67:56 In 2011 Tunisia won AfroBasket for the first time, beating Angola 67-56 in the final in Madagascar.

5 In 2025 Nigeria's women became the first team to win five AfroBaskets in a row, beating Mali 78-64 in the final.

4 Lebanon have reached four Asia Cup finals, in 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2022, and lost all four.

61 In 2023 the Philippines beat Jordan 70-60 to win Asian Games basketball gold for the first time in 61 years.

2008 Dirk Nowitzki carried Germany's flag at the Beijing 2008 opening ceremony. It was his only Olympics.

5 Andrew Gaze played at five Olympics and carried Australia's flag in Sydney in 2000. At his first, in 1984, his coach was his father Lindsay.

41 Luis Scola reached the 2019 World Cup final with Argentina at 39 and played at the Tokyo Olympics at 41.

0,5 In the 2010 World Championship semi-final Kerem Tunceri's layup with half a second left gave Turkey an 83-82 win over Serbia.

1982 Panama's Rolando Frazer was MVP of the 1982 World Championship, the tournament's only MVP from Central America.

56 In 1986 in Moscow the US women beat the Soviet Union 108-88, ending the Soviets' 56-game winning streak at World Championships.

1975 In 1975 Japan's women won silver at the World Championship in Colombia, losing the final to the Soviet Union.

7 The USA won the first seven Olympic tournaments, from 1936 to 1968, without losing a single game.

25 At the Tokyo Olympics France beat the USA in the group stage, ending the Americans' 25-game Olympic winning streak.

581 Australia's Lauren Jackson scored 581 Olympic points, the most by any woman.

5 Sue Bird won five World Cup medals, four gold and one bronze, a record.

63:62 Spartak Leningrad, coached by Vladimir Kondrashin, won the Cup Winners' Cup twice. In the 1975 final they edged Crvena Zvezda 63-62.

Cibus The name Cibona comes from the Latin "cibus bonus", meaning "good food". Until 1975 the club was called Lokomotiva, and under that name it won the first Korać Cup in 1972.

1982 In 1982 Limoges won the Korać Cup, the first European trophy for a French club. They defended it the following year.

82:67 A year before its EuroLeague triumph, Žalgiris won the Saporta Cup, beating Stefanel Milano 82-67 in the 1998 final.

1968 In 1968 AEK Athens won the Cup Winners' Cup, the first European trophy for a Greek club. About 80,000 fans watched the final at the Panathenaic Stadium, then a world record.

50:48 In the 1993 Saporta Cup final Aris Thessaloniki beat Efes Pilsen 50-48. The two teams scored just 98 points between them.

1974 Crvena Zvezda won their first European trophy in 1974, beating Spartak Brno 86-75 in the Cup Winners' Cup final.

117:110 The 1978 Korać Cup final was all-Yugoslav: Partizan beat Bosna Sarajevo 117-110. A year later Partizan won the cup again.

1994 In 1994 Olimpija Ljubljana won the Saporta Cup, beating Taugrés 91-81 in the final. It was the first European trophy for a Slovenian club.

1995 In 1995 Alba Berlin won the Korać Cup, the first European trophy for a German club. Their coach was Svetislav Pešić, who later won the 2003 EuroLeague with Barcelona.

1 In 1996 Efes Pilsen won the Korać Cup 146-145 on aggregate, by a single point over Stefanel Milano. It was the first European trophy for a Turkish club.

2002 The Korać Cup ran for 30 seasons, from 1972 to 2002. Its last winner was French club SLUC Nancy.

36 The Saporta Cup was named after Raimundo Saporta, a longtime Real Madrid director. It ran for 36 seasons, from 1966 to 2002.

-20 In the 2026 Basketball Champions League final in Badalona, Rytas Vilnius came back from 20 points down to beat AEK Athens 92-86 in overtime. Simonas Lukošius hit a record seven threes.

2 San Pablo Burgos won the Basketball Champions League two years running, in 2020 and 2021. In the second final they beat Turkey's Karşıyaka 64-59.

2017 Tenerife won the first Basketball Champions League in 2017, beating Turkey's Banvit 63-59 in the final. They won it again in 2022.

50 AEK Athens' European trophies span exactly 50 years, from the 1968 Cup Winners' Cup to the 2018 Basketball Champions League.

1991 PAOK Thessaloniki won two different European cups in four years: the Cup Winners' Cup in 1991 and the Korać Cup in 1994.

3 Unicaja Málaga have won three different European competitions: the Korać Cup (2001), the EuroCup (2017) and the Basketball Champions League (2024 and 2025).

4 The Saporta Cup record is shared by Real Madrid and Cantù, with four wins each.

1967 The first Cup Winners' Cup final, in 1967, was played over two legs. Ignis Varese beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 144-135 on aggregate.

26 Alexander Belov led Spartak Leningrad to the Cup Winners' Cup in 1973 and 1975. He died of a rare heart cancer in 1978, aged just 26.

1984 In 1984 the club from Orthez, a small town in south-west France, won the Korać Cup, beating Crvena zvezda 97-73 in Paris. In 1991 the club moved to the bigger city of Pau.

2000 In 2000 Limoges won the French league, the French Cup and the Korać Cup. A year later, because of financial problems, the club was relegated to the second division.

2011 Since 2011 the original Korać Cup trophy, handed out in Europe for 30 years, has gone to the winner of the Serbian Cup, which is named after Radivoj Korać.

1996 Baskonia, then called Taugrés, won their first European trophy at home in Vitoria in 1996, beating PAOK 88-81 in the Cup Winners' Cup final.

2004 UNICS Kazan won the very first FIBA Europe League in 2004, at a Final Four held in their own arena in Kazan.

18 Latvian women's club TTT Riga won the European Champions Cup 18 times, including 12 in a row from 1964 to 1975. TTT stood for the Riga tram and trolleybus company.

15 Uļjana Semjonova joined TTT Riga at 13 and won the European Champions Cup with the club 15 times.

88:70 Aris lost the first leg of the 1997 Korać Cup final 77-66 to Tofaş, then won the second 88-70 and took the trophy.

1999 The 1999 Korać Cup final was all-Spanish. Barcelona lost the first leg to Estudiantes by 16, then won the second by 27.

74:72 In 2001 Maroussi, a club from an Athens suburb, won the Saporta Cup, edging Élan Chalon 74-72 in the final.

2023 In 2023 Telekom Baskets Bonn became the first German club to win the Basketball Champions League, beating Hapoel Jerusalem 77-70 in the final.

10 Cantù, a club from a small town near Como, collected 10 European trophies: two Champions Cups, four Cup Winners' Cups and four Korać Cups.

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