The title of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague’s most prolific all-around player ever now has a new owner after Nando De Colo of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul broke the record for the highest career performance index rating on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The title of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague’s most prolific all-around player now has a new owner after Nando De Colo of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul broke the record for the highest career performance index rating on Thursday.<\/p>\n
De Colo posted a PIR of 14 in Fenerbahce’s 96-86 home win over AS Monaco for a career total of 4,184. He surpassed the recently-retired Vassilis Spanoulis with an assist on the final play of the game to take over first place in the all-time rankings. Spanoulis had 4,183 in his illustrious career.<\/p>\n
Previous holders of the honor were Marcus Brown, with 2,757, and his successor, Juan Carlos Navarro, with 3,890. Performance index rating is a formula that adds all of a player’s positive statistics \u2013 such as shots made, rebounds and assists \u2013 and subtracts negative ones \u2013 like missed shots, turnovers and fouls committed \u2013 to arrive at a rating that rewards volume, efficiency and versatility.<\/p>\n
De Colo’s climb to the top of the all-time PIR standings is all the more remarkable because he needed just 236 games to do it. By contrast, nine other players have surpassed 3,500 in career PIR, but all have played at least 30 more games. Indeed, the player with the next-fewest games on the list is De Colo’s teammate Jan Vesely, with 3,626 in 266 games to rank ninth overall.<\/p>\n