By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After helping CSKA Moscow come back from a 14-point deficit in the EuroLeague semifinal against then-defending champion Real Madrid, Will Clyburn found himself suffering an ankle injury in the last minute of the match.
Clyburn had to undergo many treatments in order to be ready for the Final. The 28-year-old forward didn’t only play but In the end, won Final Four MVP after pushing CSKA towards claiming the eighth EuroLeague title in the history of the club.
It was all about “heart”.
“After that game, we did a lot of treatments. Twice a day, sometimes three. And you know what? Heart had to carry me through the rest of it,” Clyburn said in an interview for the official website of EuroLeague Basketball. “There’s only so much they can do in that time span. The want to win and to help my team the best I could kind of took over and I felt the pain, but it really didn’t matter because I wanted to win, I wanted to help the team. You could see in the game, you could see I wasn’t moving my best because of this, but we wanted to win that game and I was going to do whatever I had to do to win that game.”
Read the rest of Will Clyburn’s interview on what it means for CSKA and himself to win the title, his teammates, coach Dimitris Itoudis and more at EuroLeague.net.