By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
By dropping 27 points, thanks to which Finland beat Poland and got closer to qualification to the EuroBasket’s knock-out stage, Lauri Markkanen joined a pretty exclusive and rather special club.
Markkanen became just the third player between 19 and 20 years of age with a 27+ scoring output in a single European Championship game in the post-1981 history of the tournament.
The only hooper that surpasses him in the related list is Lithuanian HOF-er Arvydas Sabonis who had registered 28 points in a 105 – 70 win for the Soviet Union over the Netherlands during the bronze medal game of EuroBasket 1983.
Markkanen, 20, tied Slovenian power forward Matjas Smodis and a 27-point performance that helped Slovenia defeat Spain 85 – 75 in the 1999 European Championship Group Phase.
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