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2007–08 Euroleague

EuroLeague season

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title	Euroleague
image	Palacio de Deportes (Madrid) 01.jpg
pixels	300
caption	The Palacio de Deportes hosted the [Final Four](2008-euroleague-final-four)
season	2007–08
champions	RUS CSKA Moscow (6th title)
runners_up	ISR Maccabi Elite
third_place	ITA Montepaschi Siena
fourth_place	ESP Tau Cerámica
teams	24
dates	22 October 2007 – 4 May 2008
MVP	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	MVP_link = Euroleague MVP	MVP_n = LTU
final_four_MVP	Trajan Langdon	final_four_MVP_link = Euroleague Final Four MVP	final_four_MVP_n = USA
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PIR_leader	Marc Salyers	pir =22.5	pir_n = USA
top_scorer	Marc Salyers	ppg =21.8	ppg_n = USA
rebounds_leader	Travis Watson	rpg =9.7	rpg_n = USA
assists_leader	DeJuan Collins	apg = 5.4	apg_n = USA

The 2007–08 Euroleague was the 8th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 51st season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The 2007–08 season featured 24 competing teams. The Euroleague Regular Season draw was held on 30 June 2007, in Jesolo, Italy, during the inaugural Euroleague summer league. The official inauguration was held on October 22, at Hala Olivia in Gdańsk, Poland, before the season's opening game between Prokom Trefl Sopot and CSKA Moscow. The 2008 Final Four was held on May 2–4, 2008, at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Russian power CSKA Moscow became the champion for the sixth time, placing them second in all-time European championships to Real Madrid.

Teams of the 2007–08 Euroleague

	Eliminated in the regular season

LC: 3-year licence

Country	Teams	Teams (place in national championship)
ESP Spain	4	Real Madrid (1)
ITA Italy	4	Montepaschi Siena (1)
GRE Greece	3	Panathinaikos (1)
TUR Turkey	2	Fenerbahçe Ülker (1)
LTU Lithuania	2	Žalgiris (1)
FRA France	2	Roanne (1)
GER Germany	1	Brose Bamberg (1)
CRO Croatia	1	Cibona (1)
RUS Russia	1	CSKA Moscow (1)
ISR Israel	1	Maccabi Elite (1)
SLO Slovenia	1	Union Olimpija (2)LC
SRB Serbia	1	Partizan (1)
POL Poland	1	Prokom Trefl Sopot (1)

Teams details

Team	Location	Arena (seating capacity)	Classification
Aris	GRE Thessaloniki	Alexandrio Melathron (5,500)	A1 Ethniki third placed team
Brose Bamberg	GER Bamberg	Jako Arena (6,900)	Basketball Bundesliga two-year classification
Cibona	CRO Zagreb	Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall (5,400)		A1 Liga three-year period classified
CSKA Moscow	RUS Moscow	CSKA Universal Sports Hall (5,500), Khodynka Arena (14,500) — Game 13 only		Russian Super League three-year period classified
Efes Pilsen	TUR Istanbul	Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500)	Turkish League three-year period classified
FC Barcelona	ESP Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana (8,250)	ACB
Fenerbahçe Ülker	TUR Istanbul	Abdi İpekçi Arena (12,500)	Turkish League three-year period classified
Le Mans	FRA Le Mans	Antarès (6,003)	La Ligue three-year period classified
	Lietuvos Rytas	LIT Vilnius	Siemens Arena (11,000)	ULEB Cup vice Champion
	Lottomatica Roma	ITA Rome	PalaLottomatica (11,200)	Serie A
	Maccabi Elite	ISR Tel Aviv	Nokia Arena (Yad Eliyahu) (11,700)	Israeli League three-year period classified
Montepaschi Siena	ITA Siena	Palasport Mens Sana (7,025)	Serie A regular season leader
Armani Jeans Milano	ITA Milan	Datch Forum di Assago (13,000)	Serie A
Union Olimpija	SLO Ljubljana	Dvorana Tivoli (6,000)	Liga UPC Telemach three-year period classified
Olympiacos	GRE Piraeus	Peace and Friendship Stadium (14,905)	A1 Ethniki three-year period classified
Panathinaikos	GRE Athens	Olympic Indoor Hall (19,250)	A1 Ethniki three-year period classified
Partizan	SRB Belgrade	Pionir Hall (8,150)	Naša Sinalko Liga Champion
Prokom Trefl Sopot	POL Sopot	Hala Olivia (5,500), Gdańsk (Game 1-8)
Hala Stulecia Sopotu (2,000), Sopot (Game 9 onward)	Dominet Bank Ekstraliga Champion
Real Madrid	ESP Madrid	Palacio Vistalegre (15,000)	ULEB Cup Champion/ACB
	Roanne	FRA Roanne	Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall (5,000)	La Ligue champion
Tau Cerámica	ESP Vitoria-Gasteiz	Fernando Buesa Arena (15,504)	ACB three-year period classified
Unicaja Málaga	ESP Málaga	Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena (13,000)	ACB three-year period classified
VidiVici Bologna	ITA Bologna	PalaMalaguti (11,000)	Serie A
Žalgiris	LIT Kaunas	Kaunas Sports Hall (5,000)	LKL three-year period classified

Regular season

The regular season began on October 22, 2007.

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
Points scored in all group matches
Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match

	Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	14	12	2	1123	942
2.	ITA Montepaschi Siena	14	10	4	1098	974
3.	ESP Tau Cerámica	14	9	5	1170	1051
4.	LIT Žalgiris	14	8	6	1110	1126
5.	GRE Olympiacos	14	7	7	1185	1099
6.	SLO Union Olimpija	14	4	10	1030	1147
7.	POL Prokom Trefl Sopot	14	4	10	973	1143
8.	ITA VidiVici Bologna	14	2	12	1008	1215

Group B

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 Regular Season Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	LIT Lietuvos Rytas	14	11	3	1127	999
2.	ISR Maccabi Elite	14	11	3	1162	1108
3.	ESP Unicaja Málaga	14	10	4	1124	1007
4.	TUR Efes Pilsen	14	8	6	1106	1080
5.	GRE Aris TT Bank	14	7	7	1054	1072
6.	CRO Cibona VIP	14	4	10	1080	1188
7.	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	14	3	11	1015	1107
8.	FRA Le Mans	14	2	12	1035	1142

Group C

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 Regular Season Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	GRE Panathinaikos	14	12	2	1156	1037
2.	ESP Real Madrid	14	11	3	1137	1015
3.	ESP AXA FC Barcelona	14	9	5	1082	991
4.	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	14	6	8	1087	1103
5.	SRB Partizan Igokea	14	6	8	1100	1103
6.	ITA Lottomatica Roma	14	6	8	1071	1093
7.	FRA Chorale Roanne	14	4	10	1104	1224
8.	GER Brose Baskets	14	2	12	879	1040

Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.

The draw to set up the Top 16 groups was held on Monday, February 4, 2008 (the week after the end of the Regular Season), in Madrid.

The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:

Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team

CSKA Moscow, Panathinaikos, Lietuvos Rytas, Real Madrid Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
Maccabi Elite, Montepaschi Siena, Unicaja Málaga, Tau Cerámica Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
FC Barcelona, Efes Pilsen, Žalgiris, Fenerbahçe Ülker Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
Olympiacos, Aris, Partizan, Lottomatica Roma

Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:

No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.

Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the cases of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, Efes Pilsen and Fenerbahçe), they were scheduled so that only one of the two teams would be at home in a given week.

	Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ITA Montepaschi Siena	6	4	2	465	427
2.	SRB Partizan	6	4	2	440	430
3.	GRE Panathinaikos	6	3	3	430	446
4.	TUR Efes Pilsen	6	1	5	426	458

Group E

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 Top 16 Group E

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ESP Tau Cerámica	6	5	1	510	467
2.	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	6	3	3	493	488
3.	LIT Lietuvos Rytas	6	2	4	506	507
4.	GRE Aris TT Bank	6	2	4	448	495

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	ISR Maccabi Elite	6	4	2	516	496
2.	GRE Olympiacos	6	4	2	443	436
3.	ESP Real Madrid	6	3	3	489	493
4.	LIT Žalgiris	6	1	5	457	480

Group G

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 Top 16 Group G

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Diff
1.	RUS CSKA Moscow	6	4	2	448	386
2.	ESP AXA FC Barcelona	6	3	3	393	383
3.	ESP Unicaja	6	3	3	412	418
4.	ITA Lottomatica Roma	6	2	4	383	449

Quarterfinals

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three (if third serie necessary) series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. All opening games were played on April 1, 2008, and all second games were played on April 3. The deciding third games were played on April 9 and April 10.

Final four

Main article: 2007–08 Euroleague Final Four

The Final Four is the last phase of each Euroleague season, and is held over a weekend. The semifinal games are played on Friday evening. Sunday starts with the third-place game, followed by the championship final.

Semifinals

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Third-place game

May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid |}

Final

May 4, Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid |}

2007–08 Euroleague
Champions
RUS
CSKA Moscow
6th Title

Final standings

Team
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Final Four 2008 MVP

USA Trajan Langdon (CSKA Moscow)

Individual statistics

Main article: Euroleague 2007–08 Individual Statistics

Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PIR
1.	USA Marc Salyers	FRA Roanne	14	315	22.50
2.	MKD Jeremiah Massey	GRE Aris	20	420	21.00
3.	MNE Nikola Peković	SRB Partizan	23	451	19.61

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	PPG
1.	USA Marc Salyers	FRA Roanne	14	305	21.79
2.	USA Will Solomon	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	21	376	17.90
3.	MKD Jeremiah Massey	GRE Aris	20	340	17.00

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	RPG
1.	USA Travis Watson	ITA Armani Jeans Milano	14	136	9.71
2.	MKD Jeremiah Massey	GRE Aris	20	169	8.45
3.	USA Terence Morris	ISR Maccabi Elite	25	208	8.32

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Games	Rating	APG
1.	USA DeJuan Collins	LIT Žalgiris	20	107	5.35
2.	USA Terrell McIntyre	ITA Montepaschi Siena	24	118	4.92
3.	GRE Theo Papaloukas	RUS CSKA Moscow	23	105	4.57

Other Stats

FT%	LIT Šarūnas Jasikevičius	GRE Panathinaikos	20	0.938

Game highs

Fouls Drawn	MNE Nikola Peković	SRB Partizan	13

Awards

Euroleague 2007–08 MVP

LIT Ramūnas Šiškauskas (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Euroleague 2007–08 Final Four MVP

USA Trajan Langdon (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Euroleague 2007–08 Finals Top Scorer

USA Will Bynum (ISR Maccbi Tel Aviv)

All-Euroleague Team 2007–08

All-Euroleague First Team	Club team	All-Euroleague Second Team	Club team
USA Terrell McIntyre	ITA Montepaschi Siena	GRE Theo Papaloukas	RUS CSKA Moscow
USA Trajan Langdon	RUS CSKA Moscow	USA Bootsy Thornton	ITA Montepaschi Siena
LIT Ramūnas Šiškauskas	RUS CSKA Moscow	ISR Yotam Halperin	ISR Maccabi Elite
USA Terence Morris	ISR Maccabi Elite	MNE Nikola Peković	SRB Partizan
BRA Tiago Splitter	ESP Tau Cerámica	LIT Kšyštof Lavrinovič	ITA Montepaschi Siena

Rising Star

ITA Danilo Gallinari (ITA Armani Jeans Milano)

Best Defender

GRE Dimitris Diamantidis (GRE Panathinaikos)

Top Scorer ([[Alphonso Ford Trophy]])

USA Marc Salyers (FRA Roanne)

Coach of the Year ([[Euroleague Coach of the Year Award|Alexander Gomelsky Award]])

ITA Ettore Messina (RUS CSKA Moscow)

Club Executive of the Year

ITA Ferdinando Minucci (ITA Montepaschi Siena)

Regular season

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Round

Game	Player	Team	Rating
1	MNE Nikola Peković	SRB Partizan	40
2	LIT Artūras Jomantas	LIT Lietuvos Rytas	29
SLO Erazem Lorbek	ITA Lottomatica Roma	29
3	MKD Jeremiah Massey	GRE Aris	40
4	BEL Tomas Van Den Spiegel	POL Prokom Trefl Sopot	50
5	LIT Arvydas Macijauskas	GRE Olympiacos	41
6	USA Dewarick Spencer	ITA VidiVici Bologna	44
7	PUR Daniel Santiago	ESP Unicaja Málaga	34
8	USA Marc Salyers	FRA Roanne	34
9	BRA Tiago Splitter	ESP Tau Cerámica	42
10	USA Scoonie Penn	TUR Efes Pilsen	38
11	USA Loren Woods	TUR Efes Pilsen	35
12	CAF Romain Sato	ITA Montepaschi Siena	33
SLO Marko Milič	SLO Union Olimpija	33
USA Will Solomon	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker	33
13	SRB Novica Veličković	SRB Partizan	30
14	ESP Jordi Trias	ESP FC Barcelona	36

Top 16

Game	Player	Team
1	USA Lynn Greer	GRE Olympiacos
2	URU Esteban Batista	ISR Maccabi Elite
3	GRE Dimitris Diamantidis	GRE Panathinaikos
USA Terence Morris	ISR Maccabi Elite	29
4	USA Lynn Greer (2)	GRE Olympiacos
5	USA Scoonie Penn (2)	TUR Efes Pilsen
BEL Axel Hervelle	ESP Real Madrid	32
6	USA Will Solomon (2)	TUR Fenerbahçe Ülker
MKD Jeremiah Massey (2)	GRE Aris	34

Playoffs

Game	Player	Team
1-2	ITA Gianluca Basile	ESP FC Barcelona
SLO Matjaž Smodiš	RUS CSKA Moscow	22
3	BRA Tiago Splitter (2)	ESP Tau Cerámica

MVP of the Month

Main article: EuroLeague MVP of the Month

Month	Player	Team
November 2007	LIT Arvydas Macijauskas	GRE Olympiacos
December 2007	USA Marcus Brown	LIT Žalgiris
January 2008	USA Terence Morris	ISR Maccabi Elite
February 2008	USA Bootsy Thornton	ITA Montepaschi Siena
March 2009	Belize Milt Palacio	SRB Partizan
April 2008	LIT Ramūnas Šiškauskas	RUS CSKA Moscow

References and notes

References

(2007-12-18). "Due to force majeure, Prokom changes arenas". Euroleague.net.
(2008-01-29). "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague.
(3 October 2024). "Cologne 2021 - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL".

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