2016 Euroleague Final Four

2016 Euroleague Final Four
Season	2015–16 Euroleague
Tournament details
Arena	Mercedes-Benz Arena ; Berlin, Germany
Dates	13–15 May 2016
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow (7th title)
Runners-up	Fenerbahçe
Third place	Lokomotiv Kuban
Fourth place	Laboral Kutxa
Awards and statistics
MVP	Nando de Colo
Top scorer(s)	Nando de Colo (52)
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The 2016 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2015–16 Euroleague season, which was the 59th season of Europe's premier club basketball tournament, and the 16th season since it has been organised by Euroleague Basketball. The Final Four was played at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany, in May 2016.^[1] CSKA Moscow won its 7th EuroLeague title, after beating Fenerbahçe in the championship game, by a score of 101–96, in overtime.

Venue

On May 11, 2015, Euroleague Basketball announced that the 2016 Final Four would be played at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany. With a seating capacity of 14,500 people for basketball games, it is home to the Alba Berlin basketball team, and is used for ice hockey, basketball, and handball games, as well as concerts. The area surrounding the arena is filled with various entertainment venues, including a cinema, a casino, a hotel, and various bars and restaurants. The arena previously hosted the 2009 Euroleague Final Four. The arena was one of the most prominent elements of the Mediaspree urban redevelopment project, and it quickly gained emblematic status in the debates surrounding the project's impact.

The LED construction grid on the facade of the arena was equipped with more than 300,000 LED clusters on a 12 m (39 ft) high, and approximately 120 m (390 ft) wide section of the semicircular 105° glass facade, with a total area of more than 1,440 m² (15,500 sq ft). Light pixels, consisting of two groups of 19 LEDs (colour palette: 16.7 million RGB colours), were attached to the vertical bracing of the facade. The vertical distances were 0.20 m (7.9 in), and the horizontal distances between the axes were 0.90 m (2 ft 11 in).

Berlin	Berlin 2016 Euroleague Final Four (Europe)
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 14,500

Road to the Final Four

Team	Regular season			Top 16			Playoffs
Team	Group	W	L	Group	W	L	Opponent	Score
Fenerbahçe	A (1st)	8	2	E (1st)	11	3	Real Madrid	3–0
Laboral Kutxa	B (3rd)	6	4	F (2nd)	9	5	Panathinaikos	3–0
CSKA Moscow	D (1st)	9	1	F (1st)	10	4	Crvena zvezda	3–0
Lokomotiv Kuban	C (1st)	8	2	E (2nd)	9	5	FC Barcelona Lassa	3–2

Bracket

Semifinals		Championship game

13 May

Fenerbahçe	88
		15 May
Laboral Kutxa	77
		Fenerbahçe	96
13 May
		CSKA Moscow	101
CSKA Moscow	88

Lokomotiv Kuban	81
		Third place game

		15 May

		Laboral Kutxa	75

		Lokomotiv Kuban	85

Semifinals

Semifinal A

13 May 2016	CSKA Moscow	88–81	Lokomotiv Kuban	Berlin, Germany
18:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 23–12, 24–25, 21–22, 20–22
	Pts: De Colo 30 Rebs: Hines, Kurbanov 7 Asts: Teodosić 6 PIR: De Colo 30	Boxscore	Pts: Delaney 26 Rebs: Randolph 11 Asts: Delaney, Draper 4 PIR: Delaney 24	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 11,261 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Damir Javor (SLO)

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	1	Nando de Colo	30	3	4
SG	22	Cory Higgins	7	2	1
SF	41	Nikita Kurbanov	4	7	0
PF	20	Andrey Vorontsevich	9	4	0
C	42	Kyle Hines	8	7	3
Reserves:
PG	4	Miloš Teodosić	8	1	6
SG	7	Vitaly Fridzon	13	1	0
PF	8	Demetris Nichols	DNP
PG	9	Aaron Jackson	0	0	0
C	12	Pavel Korobkov	DNP
SG	30	Mikhail Kulagin	DNP
PF	31	Victor Khryapa	9	0	3
Head coach:
Dimitrios Itoudis

CSKA Moscow
0

Lokomotiv Kuban

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	0	Malcolm Delaney	26	3	4
SG	18	Evgeny Voronov	0	0	0
SF	45	Ryan Broekhoff	10	5	1
PF	9	Víctor Claver	2	5	2
C	3	Anthony Randolph	13	11	1
Reserves:
PF	1	Chris Singleton	6	5	1
PG	4	Dontaye Draper	17	1	4
PG	10	Sergey Bykov	0	0	0
SG	12	Matt Janning	7	0	1
PG	15	Maxim Kolyushkin	DNP
PF	17	Nikita Balashkov	DNP
PF	20	Andrey Zubkov	0	0	0
Head coach:
Georgios Bartzokas

Semifinal B

13 May 2016	Fenerbahçe	88–770(OT)	Laboral Kutxa	Berlin, Germany
21:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 23–15, 18–25, 14–17, 17–15, Overtime: 16–5
	Pts: Bogdanović 18 Rebs: Antić, Datome 7 Asts: Sloukas 7 PIR: Sloukas 20	Boxscore	Pts: Bourousis 22 Rebs: Bourousis 10 Asts: Adams 7 PIR: Bourousis 24	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 11,216 Referees: Christos Christodoulou (GRE), Borys Ryzhyk (UKR), Oļegs Latiševs (LAT)

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	35	Bobby Dixon	3	5	0
SG	13	Bogdan Bogdanović	18	6	3
SF	70	Luigi Datome	15	7	2
PF	12	Pero Antić	8	7	2
C	8	Ekpe Udoh	14	2	1
Reserves:
PG	3	Ricky Hickman	3	1	0
PF	5	Barış Hersek	DNP
SG	10	Melih Mahmutoğlu	DNP
PG	16	Kostas Sloukas	13	5	7
PG	23	Berk Uğurlu	DNP
PF	24	Jan Veselý	14	3	1
SF	33	Nikola Kalinić	0	2	1
Head coach:
Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe

Laboral Kutxa

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	20	Darius Adams	19	2	7
SG	8	Ádám Hanga	10	5	0
SF	42	Dāvis Bertāns	2	2	1
PF	14	Kim Tillie	13	3	0
C	6	Darko Planinić	0	2	0
Reserves:
PG	3	Mike James	6	2	5
PF	4	Mamadou Diop	DNP
SG	5	Fabien Causeur	0	0	0
C	9	Ioannis Bourousis	22	10	2
SF	11	Jaka Blažič	5	2	1
C	12	Ilimane Diop	0	0	0
SF	33	Alberto Corbacho	DNP
Head coach:
Velimir Perasović

Third place game

15 May 2016	Laboral Kutxa	75–85	Lokomotiv Kuban	Berlin, Germany
17:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 16–20, 26–20, 11–21, 22–24
	Pts: Adams 25 Rebs: Hanga 7 Asts: Adams 6 PIR: Adams 31	Boxscore	Pts: Broekhoff, Delaney 21 Rebs: Claver, Singleton 7 Asts: Delaney, Draper 4 PIR: Broekhoff 29	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 10,658 Referees: Christos Christodoulou (GRE), Borys Ryzhyk (UKR), Piotr Pastusiak (POL)

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	20	Darius Adams	25	6	6
SG	8	Ádám Hanga	3	7	1
SF	42	Dāvis Bertāns	13	0	1
PF	14	Kim Tillie	7	6	2
C	6	Darko Planinić	5	2	1
Reserves:
PG	3	Mike James	2	0	1
PF	4	Mamadou Diop	DNP
SG	5	Fabien Causeur	DNP
C	9	Ioannis Bourousis	5	2	1
SF	11	Jaka Blažič	8	3	0
C	12	Ilimane Diop	4	3	0
SF	33	Alberto Corbacho	3	0	1
Head coach:
Velimir Perasović

Laboral Kutxa
0

Lokomotiv Kuban

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	0	Malcolm Delaney	21	5	4
SG	10	Sergey Bykov	0	0	2
SF	45	Ryan Broekhoff	21	6	3
PF	9	Víctor Claver	10	7	3
PF	1	Chris Singleton	10	7	2
Reserves:
C	3	Anthony Randolph	DNP
PG	4	Dontaye Draper	2	0	4
SG	12	Matt Janning	10	1	0
PG	15	Maxim Kolyushkin	DNP
PF	17	Nikita Balashkov	0	0	0
SG	18	Evgeny Voronov	0	1	0
PF	20	Andrey Zubkov	11	2	2
Head coach:
Georgios Bartzokas

Championship game

The Final was the second Final Four meeting between the two teams. In the 2015 Euroleague Final Four, CSKA Moscow beat Fenerbahçe 86–80, in the third-place game.^[2] It was the first European final for Fenerbahçe, while CSKA played in its 13th championship game.

In the Final, it seemed early on that CSKA was destined to win its seventh EuroLeague title. After a strong first half, the Russian side led 30–50 at halftime, and had a lead of as many as 21 points in the third quarter. However, in the fourth quarter, Fenerbahçe surged back, and CSKA player, Victor Khryapa, had to score a tip-in with 1.9 seconds remaining on the game clock, to tie the game.^[3] It was the third Final in EuroLeague history that went to overtime. In overtime, CSKA, led by Nando De Colo, took the lead, and finally claimed its seventh EuroLeague title, and its first one in eight years.^[3]

15 May 2016	Fenerbahçe	96–1010(OT)	CSKA Moscow	Berlin, Germany
20:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 20–22, 10–28, 23–19, 30–14, Overtime: 13–18
	Pts: Dixon 17 Rebs: Udoh 11 Asts: Dixon 4 PIR: Udoh 24	Boxscore	Pts: De Colo 22 Rebs: Khryapa, Teodosić 5 Asts: De Colo, Teodosić 7 PIR: Teodosić 29	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 12,250 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Damir Javor (SLO)

Starters:			Pts	Reb	Ast

PG	16	Kostas Sloukas	10	2	0
SG	13	Bogdan Bogdanović	6	3	3
SF	33	Nikola Kalinić	3	3	2
PF	70	Luigi Datome	16	5	3
PF	24	Jan Veselý	7	5	1
Reserves:
PG	3	Ricky Hickman	5	0	0
PF	5	Barış Hersek	DNP
C	8	Ekpe Udoh	16	11	3
SG	10	Melih Mahmutoğlu	0	0	0
PF	12	Pero Antić	16	1	0
PG	23	Berk Uğurlu	DNP
PG	35	Bobby Dixon	17	4	1
Head coach:
Željko Obradović