2006–07 Euroleague

Turkish Airlines Euroleague1

The Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens hosted the Final Four
Champions Greece Panathinaikos (4th title)
Runners-up Russia CSKA Moscow
Third place Spain Unicaja Málaga
Fourth place Spain Tau Cerámica
Teams 24
Dates October 24, 2006 – May 6, 2007
Awards
MVP Greece Theodoros Papaloukas
Final Four MVP Greece Dimitris Diamantidis
Statistical leaders
Points

Spain Juan Carlos Navarro

16.8
Rebounds

United States Tanoka Beard

9.9
Assists

Greece Theodoros Papaloukas

5.4

1 Sponsored league name, referring to Turkish Airlines.

The 2006–07 Euroleague was the 7th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 50th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries.

The competition began on October 24, 2006, at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain, with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against Joventut Badalona. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007, in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, with Panathinaikos defeating the defending champions, CSKA Moscow, by a score of 93-91.

Teams

As announced on the official Euroleague site.

Key to colors
     Champion
     Runner-up
     Third place
     Fourth place
     Eliminated in Quarterfinals
     Eliminated in Last 16
     Eliminated in the regular season
Team Location Arena
Aris Thessaloniki, Greece Alexandreio Melathron
Benetton Treviso Treviso, Italy Palaverde
Cibona Zagreb, Croatia Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall
Climamio Bologna Bologna, Italy Land Rover Arena
CSKA Moscow Moscow, Russia CSKA Universal Sports Hall
DKV Joventut Badalona, Spain Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona
Dynamo Moscow Moscow, Russia Krylatskoe Sport Palace
Efes Pilsen Istanbul, Turkey Abdi İpekçi Arena
Eldo Napoli Naples, Italy PalaBarbuto
Fenerbahçe Ülker Istanbul, Turkey Abdi İpekçi Arena
Le Mans Le Mans, France Antarès
Lottomatica Roma Rome, Italy PalaLottomatica
Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Israel Nokia (Yad Eliyahu) Arena
Olympiacos Piraeus, Greece Peace and Friendship Stadium
Panathinaikos Athens, Greece Olympic Indoor Hall
Partizan Belgrade, Serbia Pionir Hall
Pau-Orthez Pau, France Palais des Sports de Pau
Prokom Trefl Sopot Sopot, Poland Olivia Sports Hall, Gdańsk
RheinEnergie Köln Köln, Germany Philips Halle
Tau Cerámica Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Fernando Buesa Arena
Unicaja Málaga Málaga, Spain José María Martín Carpena Arena
Union Olimpija Ljubljana, Slovenia Dvorana Tivoli
FC Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Palau Blaugrana
Žalgiris Kaunas, Lithuania Kaunas Sports Hall

Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

  1. Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
  2. Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
  3. Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
  4. Points scored in all group matches
  5. Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Key to colors
     Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16

Group A

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Spain Tau Cerámica 14 12 2 1165 1025 +140
2. Russia Dynamo Moscow 14 10 4 1100 1032 +68
3. Greece Olympiacos 14 10 4 1165 1112 +53
4. Turkey Efes Pilsen 14 8 6 1081 1031 +50
5. Poland Prokom Trefl 14 5 9 1021 1063 -42
6. Italy Climamio Bologna 14 5 9 1115 1176 -61
7. France Le Mans 14 4 10 985 1041 -56
8. Germany RheinEnergie Köln 14 2 12 1032 1184 -152

Group B

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Greece Panathinaikos 14 11 3 1128 1036 +92
2. Israel Maccabi Elite 14 8 6 1230 1177 +53
3. Spain DKV Joventut 14 7 7 1112 1049 +63
4. Spain Unicaja Málaga 14 7 7 1001 1085 -84
5. Italy Lottomatica Roma 14 6 8 1027 1044 -17
6. Serbia Partizan 14 6 8 1100 1093 +7
7. Croatia Cibona VIP 14 6 8 1113 1141 -28
8. Slovenia Union Olimpija 14 5 9 1038 1124 -86

Group C

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Russia CSKA Moscow 14 13 1 1079 912 +167
2. Spain Winterthur FC Barcelona 14 9 5 1093 1032 +61
3. Italy Benetton Treviso 14 8 6 1021 989 +32
4. France Pau-Orthez 14 7 7 1059 1070 -11
5. Greece Aris TT Bank 14 6 8 971 1013 -42
6. Italy Eldo Napoli 14 6 8 1032 1093 -61
7. Turkey Fenerbahçe Ülker 14 5 9 1044 1088 -44
8. Lithuania Žalgiris 14 2 12 1062 1164 -102

Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.

The draw was held February 5, at 13:00 CET (1200 UTC) in Barcelona, in accordance with Euroleague rules.[1]

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams

Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams

Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

  1. No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
  2. No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
  3. If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Moscow, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, FC Barcelona and Joventut Badalona) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.

Key to colors
     Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Group D

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Spain Tau Cerámica 6 6 0 541 433 +108
2. Israel Maccabi Elite 6 4 2 463 478 −15
3. Italy Lottomatica Roma 6 1 5 416 468 −52
4. France Pau-Orthez 6 1 5 470 511 −41

Group E

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Russia CSKA Moscow 6 6 0 475 376 +99
2. Greece Olympiacos 6 3 3 451 450 +1
3. Serbia Partizan 6 2 4 432 474 −42
4. Spain DKV Joventut 6 1 5 407 465 −58

Group F

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Greece Panathinaikos 6 5 1 501 428 +73
2. Spain FC Barcelona 6 4 2 498 455 +43
3. Turkey Efes Pilsen 6 2 4 416 458 −42
4. Poland Prokom Trefl 6 1 5 404 478 −74

Group G

Team Pld W L PF PA Diff
1. Spain Unicaja Málaga 6 4 2 448 442 +6
2. Russia Dynamo Moscow 6 4 2 428 435 −7
3. Italy Benetton Treviso 6 3 3 439 428 +11
4. Greece Aris TT Bank 6 1 5 451 461 −10

*Unicaja Málaga won the group over Dynamo Moscow. The teams split their regular-season matches, but Unicaja scored 5 more points head-to-head.

Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. Quarterfinals were played on April 3 and 5, 2007, with third games to be played April 12 if necessary.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg3rd leg
Tau Cerámica Spain 2–0 Greece Olympiacos 84–59 95–89
CSKA Moscow Russia 2–1 Israel Maccabi Elite 80–58 56–6892-71
Panathinaikos Greece 2–0 Russia Dynamo Moscow 80–58 73–65
Unicaja Málaga Spain 2–1 Spain FC Barcelona 91–75 58–8067-64

Final four

Semifinals

May 4, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Unicaja Málaga Spain 50–62 Russia CSKA Moscow
Panathinaikos Greece 67–53 Spain Tau Cerámica

3rd place game

May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Unicaja Málaga Spain 76–74 Spain Tau Cerámica

Final

May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Panathinaikos Greece 93–91 Russia CSKA Moscow
2006–07 Euroleague
Champions
Greece
Panathinaikos
4th Title

Final standings

Team
Greece Panathinaikos
Russia CSKA Moscow
Spain Unicaja Málaga
Spain Tau Cerámica

Final Four 2007 MVP

Greece Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)

Individual statistics

Rating

Rank Name Team Games Rating PIR
1.Croatia Nikola VujčićIsrael Maccabi Elite2247821.73
2.Greece Lazaros Papadopoulos Russia Dynamo Moscow1734520.29
3.United States Eric CampbellFrance Le Mans1426619.00

Points

Rank Name Team Games Rating PPG
1.Spain Juan Carlos Navarro Spain FC Barcelona2236916.77
2.Serbia Igor Rakočević Spain Tau Cerámica2235716.23
3.Israel David BluIsrael Maccabi Elite1422416.00

Rebounds

Rank Name Team Games Rating RPG
1.United States Tanoka BeardLithuania Žalgiris141389.86
2.United States James Thomas Italy Climamio Bologna131289.85
3.United States Brent Wright Croatia Cibona141128.00

Assists

Rank Name Team Games Rating APG
1.Greece Theodoros Papaloukas Russia CSKA Moscow251355.40
2.Argentina Pablo Prigioni Spain Tau Cerámica231084.70
3.Greece Nikos Zisis Italy Benetton Treviso20864.30

Other Stats

Category Name Team Games Stat
Steals per gameSpain Ricky RubioSpain Joventut Badalona163.19
Blocks per gameUnited States Marcus HaislipTurkey Efes Pilsen201.75
Turnovers per gameUnited States Brent WrightCroatia Cibona143.14
Fouls drawn per gameGreece Lazaros PapadopoulosRussia Dynamo Moscow176.06
Minutes per gameCroatia Davor KusCroatia Cibona1434:28
2FG%Greece Ioannis BourousisGreece Olympiacos190.764
3FG%Israel David BluIsrael Maccabi Elite140.533
FT%United States Trajan LangdonRussia CSKA Moscow250.924

Game highs

Category Name Team Stat
RatingCroatia Nikola VujčićIsrael Maccabi Elite46
PointsCroatia Nikola VujčićIsrael Maccabi Elite 33
United States Marcus HaislipTurkey Efes Pilsen
ReboundsGreece Antonis FotsisRussia Dynamo Moscow24
AssistsGreece Theodoros PapaloukasRussia CSKA Moscow12
StealsItaly Stefano MancinelliItaly Climamio Bologna10
BlocksUnited States Marcus HaislipTurkey Efes Pilsen6
Turnovers 4 occasions 8
Fouls DrawnSerbia Kosta PerovićSerbia Partizan 12
United States Brent WrightCroatia Cibona

Awards

Euroleague 2006–07 MVP

Euroleague 2006–07 Final Four MVP

All-Euroleague Team 2006–07

[2]

Position All-Euroleague First Team Club Team All-Euroleague Second Team Club Team
PG
 Greece Dimitris Diamantidis Greece Panathinaikos Argentina Pablo Prigioni Spain Tau Cerámica
SG/SF
Spain Juan Carlos Navarro Spain FC Barcelona Serbia Igor Rakočević Spain Tau Cerámica
SG/SF
United States Trajan Langdon Russia CSKA Moscow Lithuania Ramūnas Šiškauskas Greece Panathinaikos
PF/C
Argentina Luis Scola Spain Tau Cerámica Slovenia Matjaž Smodiš Russia CSKA Moscow
PF/C
 Croatia Nikola Vujčić Israel Maccabi Elite Greece Lazaros Papadopoulos Russia Dynamo Moscow

*A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theodoros Papaloukas. Consequently, the 2006-07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players.

Rising Star

Best Defender

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

Club Executive of the Year

Regular season

Game Player Team Rating
1Spain Carlos CabezasSpain Unicaja Málaga41
2United States Eric CampbellFrance Le Mans32
3Spain Juan Carlos NavarroSpain FC Barcelona35
4United States Ronnie Burrell Germany RheinEnergie Köln36
5Finland Teemu Rannikko Slovenia Union Olimpija33
6Croatia Nikola Vujčić Israel Maccabi Elite46
7United States Brent Wright Croatia Cibona35
8Greece Lazaros PapadopoulosRussia Dynamo Moscow38
9United States Marcus HaislipTurkey Efes Pilsen41
10Croatia Nikola Vujčić (2)Israel Maccabi Elite40
11United States Tanoka BeardLithuania Žalgiris31
12Croatia Nikola Vujčić (3)Israel Maccabi Elite34
United States James ThomasItaly Climamio Bologna34
13United States Terrell LydayItaly Benetton Treviso40
14France Vassil EvtimovItaly Climamio Bologna38

Top 16

Game Player Team PIR
1United States Scoonie Penn Greece Olympiacos35
United States Marcus GoreeItaly Benetton Treviso35
2United States Jamie ArnoldIsrael Maccabi Elite29
3Greece Savvas IliadisGreece Aris30
4Greece Antonis FotsisRussia Dynamo Moscow38
5United States Michael WrightFrance Pau-Orthez31
6Greece Antonis Fotsis (2)Russia Dynamo Moscow39

Playoffs

Game Player Team PIR
1-2Spain Juan Carlos Navarro (2)Spain FC Barcelona23
3Greece Theodoros PapaloukasRussia CSKA Moscow27

MVP of the Month

Month Player Team
November 2006United States Mike BatisteGreece Panathinaikos
December 2006Argentina Luis ScolaSpain Tau Ceramica
January 2007Greece Lazaros PapadopoulosRussia Dynamo Moscow
February 2007Slovenia Matjaž SmodišRussia CSKA Moscow
March 2007Puerto Rico Daniel SantiagoSpain Unicaja Málaga
April 2007Lithuania Ramūnas ŠiškauskasGreece Panathinaikos

References and notes

  1. ↑ "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2007-01-30. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
  2. ↑ http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/12172/180/all-euroleague-team-mvp-announced

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