By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Behind his best performance in the 2024-25 season, including a game-winning buzzer-beater, McKinley Wright IV sent Buducnost VOLI past Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet, 81-78.
The former Colorado standout, recently named Most Valuable Player of the AdmiralBet ABA League Regular Season, tallied 28 points with 10/13 field goals, including three triples on Sunday.
With a win in Podgorica’s Moraca Sports Center, his side prevailed, 2-1, in a best-of-three series of the Semifinals of the Playoffs 2025.
On the wrong end of a do-or-die Game 3, Yago Dos Santos put up a team-high 16 points with 6/9 from the field, including 4/4 two-pointers. In addition to Joel Bolomboy and Dejan Davidovac on the injury list of the visitors, Nikola Kalinic and Milos Teodosic were unavailable due to league suspensions.
ABA Playoffs
Quarterfinals (best of three)
Buducnost VOLI – Mega Superbet 2-0 (96-80, 92-87)
Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet – Igokea m:tel 2-0 (87-77, 95-90)
Partizan Mozzart Bet – Spartak Office Shoes 2-0 (100-75, 82-75)
Dubai – Cedevita Olimpija 2-1 (86-85, 89-94, 85-76)
Semifinals (best of three)
Buducnost VOLI – Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet 2-1 (104-70, 81-100, 81-78)
Partizan Mozzart Bet – Dubai 2-1 (102-72, 95-100, 114-97)
Finals (best of five)
Buducnost VOLI – Partizan Mozzart Bet
Serbian League
With the defending champions forced to exit the regional league, the focus switches to the AdmiralBet Basketball League of Serbia Playoffs. The team guided by Giannis Sfairopoulos will face Spartak Office Shoes in a best-of-three semifinal series, with Partizan Mozzart Bet and FMP Soccerbet on the opposite side of the bracket.
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