Real Madrid Sweeps Maccabi, Advances to Euroleague Final Four

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Jaycee Carroll, Real MadridThe last time Real Madrid made a Euroleague Final Four, Maccabi stomped on them 82-63 in Barcelona to advance to the 2011 Finals.  Two years later, Real Madrid is the first Euroleague team to ensure their place in the Euroleague’s final weekend.
This year it will be in London.  The team Madrid swept to get there?

Euroleague Power Rankings: Barcelona Rises Above the Madness

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Sarunas JasikeviciusBest four days of the year. Yep.  They’re here.  And while you watch Doug McDermott, Victor Oladipo, Kendall Williams, Baye Moussa Keita and friends this weekend, you will be tempted to bat around their NBA prospects.

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Euroleague Update: Ricky Hickman Rising, Nemanja Bjelica to Minnesota This Summer?

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Ricky Hickman, MaccabiIf Anadolu Efes is supposed to have merit as a contender, they sure aren’t supposed to let a team with ten losses take them to overtime in their own building.  But for a second straight week, Jordan Farmar scored 20-something and Istanbul’s darlings resisted the urge to tumble into their old ways, closing it out against Bamberg 89-86.

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Euroleague Power Rankings: Mirotic Sets Record, Barca Back On Top

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Nikola Mirotic’s 31 points and 11 rebounds in Real Madrid’s 105-104 overtime win at Zalgiris were career highs.  His performance from the free throw line was an all-time Euroleague best: 18-for-18.

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Euroleague Power Rankings: Jordan Farmar Puts Efes In Top Three

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Jordan FarmarIn the game’s 38th minute, Alba Berlin’s Ali Traore floated one in from six feet to put the Germans ahead of Anadolu Efes 83-81. Down two on the road with the clock hanging around the two-minute mark, the team that we’d all been waiting on to fail had its chance.

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