The final round of the 2023-24 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Regular Season saw three players lead their respective teams to victories, each accumulating PIR of 27 and sharing the honor of being the MVP of Round 34.<\/p>\n
First, Kostas Sloukas stepped up and led Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens to an 84-75 win over the visiting ALBA Berlin, which guaranteed the Greens a second-place finish and a secured home-court advantage in the playoffs. Sloukas paced the team to the tune of 16 points, making 2-of-3 two-pointers, 3-of-3 threes and 3-of-4 free throws while also dishing a game-high 7 assists and pulling down 4 rebounds. For the veteran point guard, it is his second MVP of the Round honor this season and the fourth such award of his career.<\/p>\n
Then, it was Markus Howard exploding with 34 points for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz in a crucial come-from-behind 91-95 win at Virtus Segafredo Bologna, locking up eighth place in the standings in the process. Howard was 1 point shy of his career high, hitting 6-of-9 twos, 5-of-13 threes and 7-of-8 free throws while dishing 3 assists and drawing 7 fouls. For Howard, this is his first career MVP of the Round honor.<\/p>\n
Finally, James Nunnally led Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade to a 79-66 win over Valencia Basket in his team\u2019s season finale. Nunnally had a game-high 19 points, making 4-of-4 two-pointers, 2-of-4 three-pointers and 4-of-4 free throws. He also had 4 assists, 2 rebounds and drew 6 fouls. It is Nunnally’s second such award, with the first coming in the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n
The next best mark in this final round belongs to Partizan’s Jaleen Smith and Isaiah Canaan of Olympiacos Piraeus, both of whom had a PIR of 26. Smith amassed 15 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting, 5 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists. Canaan netted 27 points on 3-of-3 two-pointers and 5-of-7 triples in an 84-81 win over Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul.<\/p>\n
Individual highs:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mike James, Monaco, 12 assists<\/p>\n Markus Howard led all scorers in Round 34 with 34 points. Howard finished the regular season as the EuroLeague\u2019s top scorer with 19.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Four players \u2013 Josh Nebo of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, Alex Poythress of EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, Matt Costello of Baskonia and James Nnaji of FC Barcelona \u2013 each had 9 rebounds, the most in this round. Nebo ended the regular season the league leader in this statistic, averaging 7.3 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n Mike James of AS Monaco dished 12 assists, his season high and more than any other player in Round 34. Baskonia’s Codi Miller-McIntyre was this season\u2019s best assists man, averaging 7.2 per night.<\/p>\n Partizan’s Jaleen Smith had 4 steals, the most in Round 34. Paris Lee of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne finished with a league-best 1.7 steals per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are three MVP’s in EuroLeague Regular Season Round 34: Kostas Sloukas of Panathinaikos, James Nunnally of Partizan and Markus Howard of Baskonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":383071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-383075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/unnamed-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383075"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=383075"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=383075"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=383075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}