2013–14 Euroleague Explained

Updated:	7 September 2014
Prevseason:	2012–13
Nextseason:	2014–15
Euroleague
T Bg:	EF6D0D
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T Color:	white
Season:	2013–14
Champions:	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 6th title
Runners Up:	Real Madrid
Third Place:	FC Barcelona
Fourth Place:	CSKA Moscow
Teams:	24
Games:	248
Duration:	1 October 2013 – 18 May 2014
Mvp:	Sergio Rodríguez
Final Four Mvp:	Tyrese Rice
Award4:	Coach of the Year
Award4 Winner:	David Blatt
Award5:	Rising Star
Award5 Winner:	Bogdan Bogdanović
Award6:	Best Defender
Award6 Winner:	Bryant Dunston
Pir:	17.7
Ppg:	17.6
Rpg:	8.6
Apg:	6.2
Average Attendance:	8,130

The 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 14th season of the modern era of Euroleague Basketball and the fourth under the title sponsorship of the Turkish Airlines. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the FIBA Europe Champions Cup, this was the 57th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs.

Euroleague Basketball Company, in its annual meeting in Barcelona, determined the site of the season's Euroleague Final Four venue. London was originally supposed to host the Final Four, but it was decided that the 2014 Euroleague Final Four be held at the Mediolanum Forum, in Milan. In the championship final game, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv defeated the previous season's runners-up, Real Madrid, by a score of 98-86 after overtime, and won its sixth Euroleague title in the club's history.

Allocation

There were three routes to participation in the Euroleague:

• The 14 teams with an A-Licence from the 2012–13 Euroleague, based on their Euroleague Club Ranking.^[1]
• The 2012–13 Eurocup winner was given a C-Licence.
• 14 places were allocated from a list of 30 teams given a B-Licence ranked according to their European national basketball league rankings over the last year. 14 teams were given both an A-Licence or C-Licence and a B-Licence. When a country ranking spot had already been assigned to an A-Licence team, the assignation jumped to the next country appearing in the ranking, and their league was not granted an additional place in the competition. The first 8 of the remaining 16 teams were given places in the regular-season, and the next 6 were given places in the qualifying competition.
• If the Eurocup champion was qualified by receiving a B license, or some team with it resigned from the competition, a wild card had to be given by the Euroleague.

The Euroleague had the right to cancel an A license for one of the following reasons:^[2]

• The club had the lowest ranking of all clubs with an A Licence according to the Club Ranking.
• The club had ranked among the clubs placed in the bottom half of the national championship final standings.
• The club had financial problems.
• In the ACB (Spain), when the champion and/or the runner-up of the league were teams without an A license. In that case, the A license club with the lowest position would play Eurocup in the next season. If that happened three times in five years, the A license of the club would be cancelled.

Euroleague allocation criteria

A licenses

Classification after the 2012–13 season, including also the 2010–11 and the 2011–12 seasons.^[3]

Rank Team Points 1. 144 2. 138 3. 136 4. 128 5. 128 6. 119 7. 118

Rank Team Points 8. 98 9. 94 10. 87 11. 87 12. 86 13. 52 14. 35

Notes

• EA7 Milano had a two-year A license, awarded in June 2012.^[4]
• Asseco Prokom lost its A license, as it was the last qualified in the A licensed team tanking. The license was converted into a wildcard.

B licenses

B licenses could be given to every team without an A license. If in the allocation appeared a team with an A license, the next team in the criteria would receive the B license, which qualified directly to the Regular Season.^[5]

Key to colors

	A licensed teams
	B licensed teams
	WC teams
	Teams qualified for the Qualifying Round

Team League Pos. 1. 1st 2. 1st 3. 1st 4. 1st 5. 1st 6. 1st 7. 1st 8. 1st 9. 1st 10. 1st 11. 2nd 12. 2nd 13. 2nd 14. Acea Roma^Withdrew^[6] 2nd

Team League ! Pos. 15. 2nd 16. 2nd 17. 2nd 18. Strasbourg^WC 2nd 19. 2nd 20. Igokea^Withdrew 3rd 21. 1st 22. 1st 23. Budivelnyk^WC 1st 24. Maccabi Haifa^Withdrew 1st 25. Lukoil Academic^Withdrew 1st 26. ZZ Leiden^Withdrew 1st 27. 1st 28. 2nd

Notes

• Adriatic: the places were awarded to the top teams in the Regular Season. If the third or fourth qualified won the Final Four, it would be granted with the first spot, moving the champion and the runner-up of the Regular Season to the second and third spots. In February 2012, Euroleague Basketball clarified the situation of the Adriatic League spots, saying the three first teams in the Adriatic League Final Four would qualify.^[7] Due to the different interpretation of both associations, Euroleague and Liga ABA negotiated a solution to be applied only for the 2012–13 season.

Finally, both organizations agreed that if the team that was in the first position after the Regular Season met all of the B-licence minimum requirements, it would qualify to Euroleague. In that case, Igokea did not meet the required criteria, so Euroleague Basketball applied the 2012–13 Euroleague Bylaws, by which the 2013 ABA Final Four champion and the runner-up, would take the first two Adriatic positions in that order, whilst the next highest regular season team would take the final Adriatic position.^{[8] [9] [10]}

• Russia: the places were awarded to the best teams, by a ranking determined by their positions in the VTB United League, and Russian Professional Basketball League.^[11] VTB points prevail in case of tie.^[12]

C licenses and wild cards

To the Regular SeasonVacant C license of Lokomotiv Kuban (2012–13 Eurocup champion), qualified with a B license, Asseco Prokom's lost A license, and the B license rejected by Acea Roma converted to a wild card:

• Strasbourg
• Budivelnyk
• Bayern Munich

To the Qualification Rounds

• Khimki
• Cimberio Varèse

Competition format changes

As new, for this Euroleague season, the eliminated teams in the Regular Season, were dropped to the Eurocup.^[13]

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round (TH: Euroleague title holders):

• A: Qualified through an A–licence
• 1st, 2nd, etc.: League position after Playoffs
• QR: Qualifying rounds
• WC: Wild card
• EC: Champion of the 2012–13 Eurocup Basketball

Regular season
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Qualifying rounds
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Qualifying rounds

See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Qualifying rounds. The eight teams participated in a single-venue tournament format, from October 1 until October 4, 2013. All games were played in the Siemens Arena in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Draw

The draws for the 2013–14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague were held on Thursday, 4 July.Teams were seeded into six pots of four teams in accordance with the Club Ranking, based on their performance in European competitions during a three-year period.

Two teams from the same country could not be drawn together in the same Regular Season group.

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FC Barcelona Olympiacos Panathinaikos Real Madrid	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv CSKA Moscow Montepaschi Siena Anadolu Efes	Laboral Kutxa Unicaja Fenerbahçe Ülker Žalgiris	Galatasaray Lokomotiv Kuban Budivelnyk Brose Bamberg	EA7 Milano Partizan Crvena Zvezda Stelmet Zielona Góra	Bayern Munich Nanterre Strasbourg Lietuvos Rytas (q)

Regular season

The regular season was played between October 17 and December 20.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Head-to-head point differential.
3. Point differential during the Regular Season.
4. Points scored during the regular season.
5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

Key to colors

	Top four places in each group advanced to Top 16
	Bottom two teams in each group entered 2013–14 Eurocup Basketball Last 32 round

Group A See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group A.

Group B See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group B.

Group C See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group C.

Group D See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Regular Season Group D.

Top 16

The Top 16 began on January 2 and ended on April 11, 2014.

If teams were level on record at the end of the Top 16, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Head-to-head record.
2. Head-to-head record between teams still tied.
3. Head-to-head point differential.
4. Point differential during the Top 16.
5. Points scored during the Top 16.
6. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Top 16 match.

Key to colors

	Top four places in each group advanced to Playoffs
bgcolor=ffcccc		Eliminated

See the detailed group stage page for tiebreakers if two or more teams were equal on points.

Group E See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Top 16 Group E.

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Quarterfinals

See main article: 2013–14 Euroleague Quarterfinals. Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.

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FC Barcelona	3–0	Galatasaray	88–61	84–63	78–75
Real Madrid	3–2	Olympiacos	88–71	82–77	76–78	62–71	83–69
CSKA Moscow	3–2	Panathinaikos	77–74	77–51	59–65	72–73	74–44
EA7 Milano	1–3	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	99–101	91–77	63–75	66–86

Final Four

See main article: 2014 Euroleague Final Four. The Final Four was the last phase of the season and was held over a weekend. The semifinal games were played on 16 May, while the third place game and championship game were played on 18 May. The Final Four was held at the Mediolanum Forum in Milan, Italy.

Attendances

Top 10

	Round	Game	Home team	Visitor	Attendance	Sources
1	Top 16	1	Partizan	Real Madrid	21,374
2	Regular Season	1	Crvena Zvezda	Lokomotiv Kuban	19,000
3	Top 16	5	Panathinaikos	FC Barcelona	18,500
4	Top 16	11	Panathinaikos	Fenerbahçe Ülker	17,500
5	Top 16	7	Panathinaikos		17,500
6	Top 16	3	Partizan	CSKA Moscow	16,523
7	Top 16	5	Partizan	Lokomotiv Kuban	15,565
8	Regular Season	8	Partizan	Budivelnyk	15,200
9	Quarter-finals	4	Panathinaikos	CSKA Moscow	14,750
10	Regular season	7	Laboral Kutxa	Panathinaikos	14,196

Average home attendances

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1	Partizan	12	150,931	21,374	7,500	12,578
2	Panathinaikos	14	168,842	18,500	5,192	12,060
3	Fenerbahçe Ülker	12	137,753	12,968	3,230	11,313
4	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	14	154,580	11,060	10,800	11,041
5	Laboral Kutxa	12	128,106	14,196	8,246	10,676
6	Real Madrid	15	155,528	13,192	6,899	10,369
7	Žalgiris	12	118,433	12,000	8,150	9,869
8	Crvena Zvezda	5	48,500	19,000	7,000	9,700
9	Olympiacos	13 ^[14]	125,074	11,500	5,500	9,656
10	EA7 Milano	14	125,264	12,331	4,630	8,947
11	Galatasaray	13	114,809	11,470	3,829	8,831
12	Brose	5	34,000	6,800	6,800	6,800
13	Unicaja	12	73,604	10,600	3,512	6,134
14	Lietuvos Rytas	5	30,350	8,450	3,350	6,070
15	Bayern Munich	12	72,445	6,700	5,011	6,037
16	Lokomotiv Kuban	12	70,481	7,470	4,274	5,873
17	Montepaschi Siena	5	27,549	6,755	4,020	5,510
18	FC Barcelona	14	71,620	6,938	3,134	5,116
19	CSKA Moscow	15	70,674	5,293	4,201	4,712
20	Anadolu Efes	12	55,311	8,078	2,080	4,609
21	Strasbourg	5	22,715	6,150	3,340	4,543
22	JSF Nanterre	5	21,000	4,500	3,000	4,200
23	Stelmet Zielona Góra	5	20,859	4,853	3,251	4,172
24	Budivelnyk	5	19,800	5,600	1,500	3,960

• Updated to reflect games played through 25 April 2014

Source: Euroleague Basketball

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Rating	width=40	PIR
1.	Keith Langford	EA7 Milano	25	442	17.68
2.	Malcolm Delaney	Bayern Munich	24	418	17.42
3.	Rudy Fernández	Real Madrid	31	534	17.23

Points

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Points	width=40	PPG
1.	Keith Langford	EA7 Milano	25	439	17.56
2.	Justin Dentmon	Žalgiris	24	403	16.79
3.	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	26	392	15.08

Rebounds

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Rebounds	width=40	RPG
1.	Joffrey Lauvergne	Partizan	24	207	8.63
2.	Richard Hendrix	Lokomotiv Kuban	23	167	7.26
3.	Andrés Nocioni	Laboral Kutxa	21	138	6.57

Assists

Rank	width=200	Name	width=200	Team	Games	width=75	Assists	width=40	APG
1.	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos	29	180	6.21
2.	Carlos Arroyo	Galatasaray	25	138	5.52
3.	Thomas Heurtel	Laboral Kutxa	21	111	5.29

Other statistics

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Steals per game	Jamon Gordon	Anadolu Efes	21	2.00
Blocks per game	Bryant Dunston	Olympiacos	29	1.31
Turnovers per game	Justin Dentmon	Žalgiris	24	3.71
Fouls drawn per game	Keith Langford	EA7 Milano	25	6.52
Minutes per game	Joffrey Lauvergne	Partizan	24	32:19
2FG%	Alex Tyus	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	27	0.723
3FG%	Valery Likhodey	Lokomotiv Kuban	21	0.546
FT%	Milko Bjelica	Laboral Kutxa Anadolu Efes	22	0.931

Game highs

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Rating	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Budivelnyk	44
Points	Andrés Nocioni	Laboral Kutxa	37
Rebounds	Pops Mensah-Bonsu	Galatasaray	16
Assists	7 occasions		11
Steals	Ricky Minard	Budivelnyk	6
Blocks	3 occasions		6
Turnovers	4 occasions		8
Fouls Drawn	Keith Langford	EA7 Milano	13

Awards

2013–14 Euroleague MVP

• Sergio Rodríguez ( Real Madrid)^[15]

2013–14 Euroleague Final Four MVP

• Tyrese Rice ( Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv)^[16]

All-Euroleague Team 2013–14

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All-Euroleague First Team	Club Team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club Team
	Real Madrid	Ricky Hickman	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv
	EA7 Milano	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
Rudy Fernández	Real Madrid	Victor Khryapa	CSKA Moscow
Sonny Weems	CSKA Moscow	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid
Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona		Panathinaikos

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

• Keith Langford ( EA7 Milano)^[18]

Best Defender

• Bryant Dunston (Olympiacos)^[19]

Rising Star

• Bogdan Bogdanović (Partizan)^[20]

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

• David Blatt ( Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv)^[21]

MVP Weekly

See main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Week.

Regular season

Game	Player	Team
1	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid	27
2	Nik Caner-Medley	Unicaja	29
3	Bryant Dunston	Olympiacos	33
4	DeMarcus Nelson	Crvena Zvezda	31
5	Justin Dentmon	Žalgiris	32
6	Vladimir Dragičević	Stelmet Zielona Góra	32
7	Boštjan Nachbar	FC Barcelona	31
8	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos	29
9	Darjuš Lavrinovič	Budivelnyk	44
10	Boban Marjanović	Crvena Zvezda	33

Top 16

Game	Player	Team
1	Vassilis Spanoulis (2)	Olympiacos	39
2	Marcelinho Huertas	FC Barcelona	30
3	Rudy Fernández	Real Madrid	30
4	Krunoslav Simon	Lokomotiv Kuban	35
5	Miloš Teodosić	CSKA Moscow	31
6	Justin Dentmon (2)	Žalgiris	33
7	Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona	36
8	Ante Tomić (2)	FC Barcelona	40
9	Zoran Dragić	Unicaja	30
10	Malcolm Delaney	Bayern Munich	24
11	Rudy Fernández (2)	Real Madrid	33
12		Lokomotiv Kuban	34
13		Panathinaikos	31
14	Justin Dentmon (3)	Žalgiris	40

Quarter-finals

Game	Player	Team
1		Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv	36
2	Ioannis Bourousis	Real Madrid	24
	Curtis Jerrells	EA7 Milano
3	Bryant Dunston (2)	Olympiacos	32
4	Bryant Dunston (3)	Olympiacos	25
5	Sasha Kaun	CSKA Moscow	29

MVP of the Month

See main article: EuroLeague Monthly MVP Award.

Month	Player	Team
October 2013	Nikola Mirotić	Real Madrid
November 2013	Derrick Brown	Lokomotiv Kuban
December 2013	Stratos Perperoglou	Olympiacos
January 2014	Nenad Krstić	CSKA Moscow
February 2014	Ante Tomić	FC Barcelona
March 2014	Ante Tomić (2)	FC Barcelona
April 2014	Alex Tyus	Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv

See also

• 2013–14 Eurocup Basketball
• 2013–14 EuroChallenge

Notes and References

1. Web site: In-The-Game.org Euroleague three-year-ranking. . 2012-10-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121001025745/http://www.in-the-game.org/?page_id=7895 . 2012-10-01 . dead .
2. http://www.euroleague.net/rs/40240/84bd1f8d-134d-42a0-a8ee-cd688d29aaa2/45c/filename/2012-2013-euroleague-bylaws.pdf 2012–13 Euroleague bylaws
3. http://www.in-the-game.org/?page_id=7895 Euroleague three-year-ranking
4. http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague-basketball/news/i/98302/6330/euroleague-board-awards-two-year-turkish-airlines-euroleague-license-to-ea7-emporio-armani-milan Euroleague board awards two-year Turkish Airlines Euroleague license to EA7 Emporio Armani Milan
5. http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague-basketball/news/i/98618/6330/eca-shareholders-meeting-prepares-to-ring-in-the-2012-13-season ECA Shareholders Meeting prepares to ring in the 2012-13 season
6. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/114414/180 Rome announces it will not play in Turkish Airlines Euroleague
7. http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague-basketball/news/i/109721/6330 ABA League – Clarification Regarding Clubs Participating in the 2013-14 Euroleague
8. http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague-basketball/news/i/110090/6330/euroleague-basketball-aba-league-agreement-on-access-to-the-2013-14-euroleague Euroleague Basketball - ABA League Agreement on Access to the 2013-14 Euroleague
9. http://www.sportando.net/eng/europe/adriatic-league/54733/red-star-beat-radnicki-advance-to-aba-liga-final-make-euroleague.html Red Star makes Euroleague
10. http://www.sportando.net/eng/europe/adriatic-league/54748/partizan-advance-to-aba-liga-final-book-ticket-for-next-euroleague.html Partizan books ticket for next Euroleague
11. Web site: Euroleague agrees to VTB United League proposal . 2013-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130613152635/http://www.vtb-league.com/en/news/euroleague-agrees-to-vtb-united-league-proposal-concerning-russian-clubs-qualification-for-european-tournaments.htm . 2013-06-13 . dead .
12. http://news.sport-express.ru/2013-05-31/590609/ Евролига-2013/14: "Химкам" осталась надежда только на wild card
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20130618093241/http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocup/news/i/114318/3735/eurocup-changes-format-expands-to-48-teams-for-2013-14-season Eurocup changes format, expands to 48 teams for 2013-14 season
14. Not included one closed-door game
15. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/137020/180/rodriguez-voted-bwin-mvp-of-the-2013-14-turkish-airlines-euroleague Euroleague.net Rodríguez voted bwin MVP of the 2013-14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague.
16. http://www.euroleague.net/final-four/milan-2014/main-page/i/137530/8698/rice-is-bwin-mvp-of-2014-final-four Euroleague.net Rice is bwin MVP of 2014 Final Four.
17. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/113030/180/2012-13-all-euroleague-first-and-second-teams-announced 2012–13 All-Euroleague First and Second teams announced
18. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/136702/180/alphonso-ford-top-scorer-trophy-goes-to-keith-langford-ea7-emporio-armani-milan Euroleague.net Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy goes to Keith Langford, EA7 Emporio Armani Milan.
19. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/136743/180/coaches-vote-bryant-dunston-of-olympiacos-this-season-s-best-defender Euroleague.net Coaches vote Bryant Dunston of Olympiacos this season's Best Defender.
20. http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/136784/180/euroleague-coaches-choose-partizan-s-bogdanovic-for-rising-star-trophy Euroleague.net Euroleague coaches choose Partizan's Bogdanovic for Rising Star Trophy.
21. Web site: David Blatt voted Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year. 3 October 2024 .