{"id":910323,"date":"2026-09-29T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910323\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:14:16","slug":"euroleague-roundup-olympiacos-win-with-shaq-courtside-dubai-and-efes-beat-spanish-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/910323\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague roundup: Olympiacos win with Shaq courtside, Dubai and Efes beat Spanish giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Dubai beat Barcelona 94-87 at home to claim their second win of the EuroLeague season.<\/p>\n

Xavi Pascual, who coached Barcelona last season, faced his former team and Aleksander Sekulic, whom he succeeded at Dubai.<\/p>\n

Mfiondu Kabengele led Dubai with 21 points and six rebounds. Dwayne Bacon added 14 points and seven rebounds, while McKinley Wright also scored 14. Kevin Punter kept Barcelona in the game after it trailed by as many as 20 points, finishing with 22 points and five rebounds.<\/p>\n

Olympiacos<\/a> edged \u017dalgiris 93-91 in Kaunas with Shaquille O\u2019Neal watching courtside. The defending champions sealed the win when Sasha Vezenkov grabbed an offensive rebound after Evan Fournier\u2019s missed free throw with two seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Fournier scored 19 points, while Vezenkov added 18 and eight rebounds. Jean Montero contributed 15 points and seven assists. Sterling Brown led \u017dalgiris with 20 points, including 14 in the final quarter, while \u0104\u017euolas Tubelis scored 19 and Carsen Edwards added 16.<\/p>\n

Anadolu Efes<\/a> beat Real Madrid<\/a> 94-84 in Istanbul ahead of their visit to Crvena zvezda<\/a>, handing the Spanish side its second consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n

PJ Dozier led Efes<\/a> with 18 points, followed by Matthew Strazel with 14. Mike James and Jordan Loyd added 12 apiece, while Dario \u0160ari\u0107 scored 10. Facundo Campazzo paced Madrid with 16 points, and Chuma Okeke added 11.<\/p>\n

Fenerbah\u00e7e cruise, Mici\u0107 makes the difference in Belgrade<\/p>\n

Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a> cruised past Bayern Munich 100-76 at home, with all 12 players getting on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

Talen Horton-Tucker led the way with 19 points, five rebounds and four assists, while Wade Baldwin added 13 points and eight assists. Duane Washington scored 20 on his EuroLeague debut for Bayern ahead of Friday\u2019s meeting with his former club Partizan. Rokas Jokubaitis added 13.<\/p>\n

Hapoel Tel Aviv edged Crvena zvezda<\/a> 81-80 in Belgrade, with Vasilije Mici\u0107 hitting two crucial late three-pointers to hold off the hosts\u2019 comeback.<\/p>\n

Elijah Bryant led Hapoel with 18 points, 10 rebounds and four assists, while Antonio Blakeney and Zach LeDay scored 12 apiece. Mici\u0107 finished with 11 points despite shooting 3-for-14 from beyond the arc. Jared Butler paced Zvezda with 19 points, followed by Jordan Nwora with 13 and Tyson Carter with 10, as the Serbian side suffered its second straight defeat.<\/p>\n

Partizan stay perfect, Milano edge derby and Valencia roll<\/p>\n

Partizan recovered from an early 10-0 deficit to beat Paris 92-79 on the road and improve to 2-0.<\/p>\n

Luca Vildoza delivered 16 points and six steals, several at crucial moments, while Tonye Jekiri added 15 points and seven rebounds. Carlik Jones contributed five assists and earned a performance index rating of 20. Nadir Hifi led Paris with 19 points, followed by TJ Warren and Jared Rhoden with 14 apiece.<\/p>\n

Olimpia Milano<\/a> edged Virtus Bologna in the Italian derby 87-85 for their first win of the season.<\/p>\n

Marko Guduri\u0107 led the hosts with 14 points, four rebounds and two assists, while Moses Wright added 11 points and seven rebounds. Aliou Diarra scored 15 and grabbed seven rebounds for Virtus, who dropped to 0-2.<\/p>\n

Valencia<\/a> routed Baskonia<\/a> 111-88 at home to remain unbeaten after two rounds.<\/p>\n

Nikola Miroti\u0107 scored 13 points, while Dylan Osetkowski contributed 12 points and seven rebounds in 19 minutes. Tadas Sedekerskis led Baskonia<\/a> with 16 points and Kenneth Faried added 15 as the visitors suffered their second straight defeat.<\/p>\n

EuroLeague Round 2<\/p>\n

September 29<\/p>\n

Dubai \u2013 Barcelona 94-87
\u017dalgiris \u2013 Olympiacos<\/a> 91-93
Anadolu Efes<\/a> \u2013 Real Madrid<\/a> 94-84
Fenerbah\u00e7e<\/a> \u2013 Bayern Munich 100-76
Crvena zvezda \u2013 Hapoel Tel Aviv 80-81
Olimpia Milano<\/a> \u2013 Virtus Bologna 87-85
Valencia<\/a> \u2013 Baskonia 111-88
Paris Basketball \u2013 Partizan 79-92<\/p>\n

September 30<\/p>\n

Be\u015fikta\u015f<\/a> \u2013 Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/a>
Panathinaikos<\/a> \u2013 ASVEL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Dubai beat Barcelona 94-87 at home to claim their second win of the EuroLeague…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-910323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}