By Semih Tuna/ stuna@eurohoops.net
Riga, Latvia – Luka Doncic and Slovenia beat Italy in the Eurobasket 2025 Round of 16, and the way he scored 42 points, reaching one more milestone.
Thanks to this performance, Doncic reached one more milestone in the tournament, in which he already made history by registering one of the rare Eurobasket triple-doubles.
To be exact, Doncic is now 3rd in the All-Time scoring list per average in EuroBasket history. To be exact, Doncic left late, great Drazen Petrovic behind him.
The only players with better numbers than him, who have also played a minimum of 20 Eurobasket games, are Greek Nikos Galis – by a large margin – and Yugoslavian legend Radivoj Korać. Both players are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
| Player | Team | Average | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nikos Galis | Greece | 31.2 | 33 |
| Radivoj Korać | Yugoslavia | 24.8 | 34 |
| Luka Doncic | Slovenia | 23.4 | 22 |
| Drazen Petrovic | Yugoslavia | 23.2 | 26 |
| Dennis Schröder | Germany | 22.1 | 25 |
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