By Lefteris Moutis / moutis@eurohoops.net
This Turkish Airlines Euroleague season ended with yet another epic championship game that was decided in extra time, after a buzzer-beater that tied the game at the end of the fourth quarter. To mark the occasion, Eurohoops.net now ranks the five most exciting championship games in the Euroleague this century!
The Euroleague is the competition of upsets, turnarounds, comebacks and huge thrills. And this was proven once again at the Final Four in Berlin, where CSKA Moscow defeated Fenerbahce Istanbul in a championship game that all basketball fans will remember for many years to come.
Eurohoops.net has collected the most exciting Final Four championship games in the modern history of the competition (from 2001 onwards) and highlighted the five with the most dramatic developments, the biggest swings and the wildest finishes!
Go back in time and recall the intense emotions generated by the Euroleague Final Four and its sensational championship games!
Final Four 2013
London
Olympiacos Piraeus – Real Madrid 100-88
Olympiacos won its second consecutive European trophy in London in 2013 in a less dramatic fashion compared to the previous year in Istanbul, but they still had to come back from a 17-point deficit!
Madrid was leading 27-10 after one quarter, securing the kind of important advantage that seemed to point it toward the club’s ninth trophy. However, the red-and-whites launched their counteroffensive at the start of the second quarter and got closer to the Madrileños by halftime. Then, their leader, Vassilis Spanoulis, scored all 21 of his points in the second half with 5 three-pointers, completing the comeback. Olympiacos went on to win by 12 points after scoring 90 points in the final three quarters as Spanoulis was voted MVP of the Final Four!