2025 EuroLeague Final Four

Semifinal A

Olympiacos v Monaco

23 May 2025	Olympiacos	68–78	Monaco	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
20:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 17–17, 15–18, 19–22, 17–21
	Pts: Fournier 31 Rebs: Vezenkov 8 Asts: three players 2 PIR: Fournier 27	Boxscore	Pts: Diallo 22 Rebs: James 7 Asts: James 7 PIR: James 29	Arena: Etihad Arena Attendance: 10,218 Referees: Ilija Belošević, Emilio Pérez, Milan Nedović

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1   Nigel Williams-Goss 12 4 2 SG 94 Evan Fournier 31 3 2 SF 16 Kostas Papanikolaou 2 3 0 PF 14 Sasha Vezenkov 7 8 1 C 10 Moustapha Fall 2 3 1 Reserves: PG 0   Thomas Walkup 2 3 2 C 2   Moses Wright DNP G 8 Luca Vildoza 0 0 0 G 9   Saben Lee 1 1 1 PF 25 Alec Peters 3 1 1 C 33 Nikola Milutinov 8 2 0 G/F 77 Shaquielle McKissic 0 1 0 Head coach: Georgios Bartzokas

Olympiacos Monaco 0 Olympiacos Statistics Monaco 18/32 (56.3%) 2-pt field goals 25/47 (53.2%) 5/27 (18.5%) 3-pt field goals 5/17 (29.4%) 17/23 (73.9%) Free throws 13/15 (86.7%) 9 Offensive rebounds 12 24 Defensive rebounds 29 33 Total rebounds 41 10 Assists 21 14 Turnovers 14 7 Steals 10 6 Blocks 2 23 Fouls 19

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 55 Mike James 17 7 7 SG 32 Matthew Strazel 2 3 3 SF 11 Alpha Diallo 22 6 3 PF 4 Jaron Blossomgame 12 5 0 C 10 Daniel Theis 5 4 0 Reserves: G 0 Élie Okobo 7 3 3 SG 8 Jordan Loyd 0 2 1 C 9 Georgios Papagiannis DNP C 14 Mam Jaiteh 11 6 1 SF 22 Terry Tarpey DNP F 30 Vitto Brown DNP PG 33 Nick Calathes 2 1 3 Head coach: Vassilis Spanoulis

Olympiacos' Evan Fournier scored a EuroLeague career-high 31 points, but his team still lost to Monaco 78–68.^[19][20] Nigel Williams-Goss was the only other Olympiacos player to reach double figures in scoring, with 12 points. Sasha Vezenkov had a difficult game offensively, with only 7 points and 8 rebounds; he also missed all six of his three-point field goal attempts. Aside from Fournier, Olympiacos was 1 of 19 on three-pointers.^[19] Monaco was ahead for most of the game,^[19][20] led by the scoring of Mike James and Alpha Diallo, with 22 and 17 points respectively.^[19] The game began with Olympiaco's defense locking down Monaco in the first three minutes; both teams' defenses maintained an advantage over the offenses throughout the first quarter, with the score tied at 17 apiece when it concluded. Monaco scored the first four points of the second quarter, but Olympiacos' head coach Georgios Bartzokas' small ball lineup of three guards responded with their own 6–0 run to take the lead. Nikola Milutinov of Olympiacos contributed with some help on offense and rebounding, but this was not enough compared to his team's shooting woes combined with Monaco's fast break, as Monaco went ahead by five (31–26).^[21]

Olympiacos entered halftime just 2 of 12 on three pointers, with seven assists and eight turnovers, all far worse than their typical performance.^[21] Monaco increased their lead throughout the second half by taking advantage of Olympiacos' low shooting percentage and questionable decisions.^[19] Several key baskets to open the third quarter from Monaco's Daniel Theis, Diallo, and Jaron Blossomgame pushed their lead to twelve, but Olympiacos' Fournier answered with his own scoring surge to cut Monaco's lead down to four (55–51). Fournier alone had trouble keeping up, as he received little scoring help from teammates in the fourth quarter, while Monaco expanded their lead into double digits highlighted by Mike James dishing out crowd-pleasing assists.^[21] With two minutes remaining and his team down by seven, Fournier committed a crucial turnover, which Monaco converted into a basket to increase their lead to nine (74–65) with 79 seconds left.^[21] As a result of the victory, Monaco became the first French team in 32 years to play in the final of the European highest level league, and only the second team to reach the stage, following Limoges CSP in the 1992–93 FIBA European League.^[22]

Semifinal B

Fenerbahçe Beko v Panathinaikos AKTOR

23 May 2025	Fenerbahçe Beko	82–76	Panathinaikos AKTOR	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
17:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 22–14, 16–19, 17–15, 27–28
	Pts: Hall 18 Rebs: Melli 6 Asts: Hayes-Davis, Baldwin 5 PIR: Hall 18	Boxscore	Pts: Osman 22 Rebs: Osman 6 Asts: Grant 4 PIR: Grant 17	Arena: Etihad Arena Attendance: 10,218 Referees: Carlos Peruga, Robert Lottermoser, Mehdi Difallah

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 23 Marko Gudurić 3 2 1 SG 20 Devon Hall 18 1 2 SF 50 Bonzie Colson 3 1 1 PF 11 Nigel Hayes-Davis 7 3 5 C 92 Khem Birch 2 4 0 Reserves: G 0 Errick McCollum 13 3 2 G 2 Wade Baldwin 10 5 5 F/C 4 Nicolò Melli 9 6 1 C 5 Sertaç Şanlı 0 0 0 SF 13 Tarik Biberović 15 3 0 F 21 Dyshawn Pierre 2 1 0 C 44 Jilson Bango DNP Head coach: Šarūnas Jasikevičius

Fenerbahçe Panathinaikos 0 Fenerbahçe Statistics Panathinaikos 14/28 (50%) 2-pt field goals 19/36 (52.8%) 13/34 (41.2%) 3-pt field goals 7/17 (41.2%) 12/15 (80%) Free throws 17/22 (77.3%) 10 Offensive rebounds 6 23 Defensive rebounds 23 33 Total rebounds 29 17 Assists 10 9 Turnovers 12 7 Steals 3 4 Blocks 1 19 Fouls 22

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 22 Jerian Grant 15 5 4 SG 25 Kendrick Nunn 19 3 0 SF 16 Cedi Osman 22 6 0 PF 41 Juancho Hernangómez 5 5 0 C 32 Wenyen Gabriel 4 3 2 Reserves: G/F 0 Panagiotis Kalaitzakis 0 1 0 PG 2 Lorenzo Brown 0 1 0 G 10 Kostas Sloukas 2 0 3 F 21 Ioannis Papapetrou 0 0 0 C 26 Mathias Lessort 7 1 1 F/C 44 Dinos Mitoglou 0 2 0 C 77 Ömer Yurtseven 2 2 0 Head coach: Ergin Ataman

Fenerbahçe won 82–76 over Panathinaikos, who lacked consistency on both offense and defense, and struggled with little to no scoring from several key players: Juancho Hernangómez (5 points), Ömer Yurtseven (2), Kostas Sloukas (2), and Dinos Mitoglou (0). For offensive help, they relied on Cedi Osman and Jerian Grant, who scored 22 and 15 points respectively, though these two players alone had difficulty establishing momentum for the team. Fenerbahçe won the game with proficient three point shooting and timely scoring runs, as well as successfully executing plays during clutch moments. Panathinaikos' guards being outmatched by Fenerbahçe's was another deciding factor in the game's outcome.^[23]

Panathinaikos had five first-quarter turnovers, which gave Fenerbahçe the chance to grab an early lead.^[23] Panathinaikos continued to be behind for the majority of the first half, but were able to trim the lead down to five by halftime.^[24] A turning point came when Kendrick Nunn of Panathinaikos, the game's top scorer at the time with 19 points, fouled out with 5:45 remaining; his consistent scoring output had kept the game close. Without their main scoring threat, Panathinaikos was subsequently unable to overcome Fenerbahçe's high-percentage three-point shooting, which had persisted all game long. Clutch perimeter shots from Devon Hall and Errick McCollum following Nunn's disqualification maintained the lead for Fenerbahçe until game's end.^[23] The game marked the return of Mathias Lessort, the Panathinaikos center who had sat out the preceding 150 days due to a broken left leg;^[24][25] he had 14 minutes of action and scored seven points.^[23]

Summary

Turkish squad Fenerbahçe claimed the championship by defeating French team Monaco 81–70. The title game began with intense defense from both teams, though Monaco hit several buckets (led by Mike James) to build early leads of 13–4 and 16–8.^[30][31] Production from the Fenerbahçe bench by Wade Baldwin, Tarik Biberović, and Nicolò Melli reduced this gap down to a two-point 20–18 lead for Monaco by first quarter's end.^[32][31] Baldwin opened the second quarter's scoring with a three pointer to put Fenerbahçe ahead by one, but Monaco responded with a 7–0 run sparked by Alpha Diallo, compelling Fenerbahçe to call a timeout; when play resumed, Diallo answered with another basket, this one a deep three-pointer to put Monaco ahead by nine, 32–23.^[31] In response, Devon Hall led Fenerbahçe offensively on a 12–1 run to close out the first half while the defense stepped up, putting the team ahead 35–33 at halftime.^[33][31][30]

Monaco's offensive rebounding and free throw opportunities kept the game close throughout the third quarter, with the lead changing back and forth on multiple occasions;^[31] key three-pointers towards the end of the quarter by Marko Gudurić and Nigel Hayes-Davis put Fenerbahçe up 54–51 at the break.^[30] The defenses succeeded at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but then a Baldwin three-pointer and Errick McCollum three-point play concluded an 11–0 run that gave Fenerbahçe the game's first double-digit lead.^[34] Additional clutch offensive performances from Hayes-Davis and Hall increased and preserved Fenerbahçe's lead which they did not relinquish.^[32]

Hayes-Davis was awarded the Final Four MVP. In the championship game, he did not shoot well, making only 4 of 13 field goal attempts, but went a perfect 14 of 14 from the free throw line. He was the game's leading scorer and rebounder, with 23 points and nine rebounds respectively, and also had two steals, a block, and an assist.^[35] Monaco head coach Vassilis Spanoulis said, "We didn't distribute the ball properly. They hit some important shots, we played good defense, but their offense was better."^[36] This was the second EuroLeague championship for Fenerbahçe, following their 2017 title, and the first for Šarūnas Jasikevičius as a head coach.^[32] The team celebrated the title with an open-bus parade through Istanbul on May 27.^[37]

Championship game

Monaco v Fenerbahçe Beko

25 May 2025	Monaco	70–81	Fenerbahçe Beko	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
19:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 20–18, 13–17, 18–19, 19–27
	Pts: Diallo 19 Rebs: Theis 8 Asts: Okobo 5 PIR: Diallo 13		Pts: Hayes-Davis 23 Rebs: Hayes-Davis 9 Asts: Hall, Baldwin 3 PIR: Hayes-Davis 30	Arena: Etihad Arena Attendance: 11,218 Referees: Carlos Peruga, Robert Lottermoser, Milan Nedović

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 55 Mike James 17 5 2 SG 32 Matthew Strazel 13 3 1 SF 11 Alpha Diallo 19 3 2 PF 4 Jaron Blossomgame 5 6 0 C 10 Daniel Theis 12 8 0 Reserves: G 0 Élie Okobo 0 1 5 SG 8 Jordan Loyd 3 1 1 C 9 Georgios Papagiannis DNP C 14 Mam Jaiteh 1 5 0 SF 22 Terry Tarpey DNP F 30 Vitto Brown DNP PG 33 Nick Calathes 0 1 2 Head coach: Vassilis Spanoulis

Monaco Fenerbahçe 0 Monaco Statistics Fenerbahçe 16/42 (38.1%) 2-pt field goals 16/38 (42.1%) 9/21 (42.9%) 3-pt field goals 9/22 (40.9%) 11/14 (78.6%) Free throws 22/26 (84.6%) 15 Offensive rebounds 14 21 Defensive rebounds 24 36 Total rebounds 38 13 Assists 7 14 Turnovers 9 3 Steals 8 1 Blocks 2 26 Fouls 23 2024–25 EuroLeague champions Fenerbahçe Beko (2nd title)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 23 Marko Gudurić 19 6 0 SG 20 Devon Hall 13 3 2 SF 50 Bonzie Colson 0 0 0 PF 11 Nigel Hayes-Davis 23 9 1 C 92 Khem Birch 2 6 0 Reserves: G 0 Errick McCollum 3 3 1 G 2 Wade Baldwin 13 2 3 F/C 4 Nicolò Melli 5 3 0 C 5 Sertaç Şanlı 0 0 0 SF 13 Tarik Biberović 3 1 0 F 21 Dyshawn Pierre 0 1 0 C 44 Jilson Bango DNP Head coach: Šarūnas Jasikevičius