2016 Euroleague Final Four

Season	2015–16 Euroleague
Tournament details
Arena	Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin, Germany
Dates	13–15 May 2016
Final positions
Champions	CSKA Moscow (7th title)
Runners-up	Fenerbahçe
Third place	Lokomotiv Kuban
Fourth place	Laboral Kutxa
Awards and statistics
MVP	Nando de Colo
Top scorer(s)	Nando de Colo (52)

The 2016 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2015–16 Euroleague season, which was the 59th season of Europe's premier club basketball tournament, and the 16th season since it has been organised by Euroleague Basketball. The Final Four was played at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany, in May 2016.^[1] CSKA Moscow won its 7th EuroLeague title, after beating Fenerbahçe in the championship game, by a score of 101–96, in overtime.

Venue

On May 11, 2015, Euroleague Basketball announced that the 2016 Final Four would be played at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany. With a seating capacity of 14,500 people for basketball games, it is home to the Alba Berlin basketball team, and is used for ice hockey, basketball, and handball games, as well as concerts. The area surrounding the arena is filled with various entertainment venues, including a cinema, a casino, a hotel, and various bars and restaurants. The arena previously hosted the 2009 Euroleague Final Four. The arena was one of the most prominent elements of the Mediaspree urban redevelopment project, and it quickly gained emblematic status in the debates surrounding the project's impact.

The LED construction grid on the facade of the arena was equipped with more than 300,000 LED clusters on a 12 m (39 ft) high, and approximately 120 m (390 ft) wide section of the semicircular 105° glass facade, with a total area of more than 1,440 m² (15,500 sq ft). Light pixels, consisting of two groups of 19 LEDs (colour palette: 16.7 million RGB colours), were attached to the vertical bracing of the facade. The vertical distances were 0.20 m (7.9 in), and the horizontal distances between the axes were 0.90 m (2 ft 11 in).

Berlin	Berlin 2016 Euroleague Final Four (Europe)
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 14,500

Road to the Final Four

Team	Regular season				Top 16				Playoffs
	Group	W	L		Group	W	L		Opponent	Score
Fenerbahçe	A (1st)	8	2		E (1st)	11	3		Real Madrid	3–0
Laboral Kutxa	B (3rd)	6	4		F (2nd)	9	5		Panathinaikos	3–0
CSKA Moscow	D (1st)	9	1		F (1st)	10	4		Crvena zvezda	3–0
Lokomotiv Kuban	C (1st)	8	2		E (2nd)	9	5		FC Barcelona Lassa	3–2

Bracket

	Semifinals				Championship game
	13 May
	Fenerbahçe	88
					15 May
	Laboral Kutxa	77
					Fenerbahçe	96
	13 May
					CSKA Moscow	101
	CSKA Moscow	88
	Lokomotiv Kuban	81
					Third place game
					15 May
					Laboral Kutxa	75
					Lokomotiv Kuban	85

Semifinals

Semifinal A

CSKA Moscow v Lokomotiv Kuban

13 May 2016	CSKA Moscow	88–81	Lokomotiv Kuban	Berlin, Germany
18:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 23–12, 24–25, 21–22, 20–22
	Pts: De Colo 30 Rebs: Hines, Kurbanov 7 Asts: Teodosić 6 PIR: De Colo 30	Boxscore	Pts: Delaney 26 Rebs: Randolph 11 Asts: Delaney, Draper 4 PIR: Delaney 24	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 11,261 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Damir Javor (SLO)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1 Nando de Colo 30 3 4 SG 22 Cory Higgins 7 2 1 SF 41 Nikita Kurbanov 4 7 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 9 4 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 8 7 3 Reserves: PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 8 1 6 SG 7 Vitaly Fridzon 13 1 0 PF 8 Demetris Nichols DNP PG 9 Aaron Jackson 0 0 0 C 12 Pavel Korobkov DNP SG 30 Mikhail Kulagin DNP PF 31 Victor Khryapa 9 0 3 Head coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

CSKA Moscow 0 Lokomotiv Kuban

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 0 Malcolm Delaney 26 3 4 SG 18 Evgeny Voronov 0 0 0 SF 45 Ryan Broekhoff 10 5 1 PF 9 Víctor Claver 2 5 2 C 3 Anthony Randolph 13 11 1 Reserves: PF 1 Chris Singleton 6 5 1 PG 4 Dontaye Draper 17 1 4 PG 10 Sergey Bykov 0 0 0 SG 12 Matt Janning 7 0 1 PG 15 Maxim Kolyushkin DNP PF 17 Nikita Balashkov DNP PF 20 Andrey Zubkov 0 0 0 Head coach: Georgios Bartzokas

Semifinal B

Fenerbahçe v Laboral Kutxa

13 May 2016	Fenerbahçe	88–770(OT)	Laboral Kutxa	Berlin, Germany
21:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 23–15, 18–25, 14–17, 17–15, Overtime: 16–5
	Pts: Bogdanović 18 Rebs: Antić, Datome 7 Asts: Sloukas 7 PIR: Sloukas 20	Boxscore	Pts: Bourousis 22 Rebs: Bourousis 10 Asts: Adams 7 PIR: Bourousis 24	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 11,216 Referees: Christos Christodoulou (GRE), Borys Ryzhyk (UKR), Oļegs Latiševs (LAT)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 35 Bobby Dixon 3 5 0 SG 13 Bogdan Bogdanović 18 6 3 SF 70 Luigi Datome 15 7 2 PF 12 Pero Antić 8 7 2 C 8 Ekpe Udoh 14 2 1 Reserves: PG 3 Ricky Hickman 3 1 0 PF 5 Barış Hersek DNP SG 10 Melih Mahmutoğlu DNP PG 16 Kostas Sloukas 13 5 7 PG 23 Berk Uğurlu DNP PF 24 Jan Veselý 14 3 1 SF 33 Nikola Kalinić 0 2 1 Head coach: Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe Laboral Kutxa

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 20 Darius Adams 19 2 7 SG 8 Ádám Hanga 10 5 0 SF 42 Dāvis Bertāns 2 2 1 PF 14 Kim Tillie 13 3 0 C 6 Darko Planinić 0 2 0 Reserves: PG 3 Mike James 6 2 5 PF 4 Mamadou Diop DNP SG 5 Fabien Causeur 0 0 0 C 9 Ioannis Bourousis 22 10 2 SF 11 Jaka Blažič 5 2 1 C 12 Ilimane Diop 0 0 0 SF 33 Alberto Corbacho DNP Head coach: Velimir Perasović

Third place game

Laboral Kutxa v Lokomotiv Kuban

15 May 2016	Laboral Kutxa	75–85	Lokomotiv Kuban	Berlin, Germany
17:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 16–20, 26–20, 11–21, 22–24
	Pts: Adams 25 Rebs: Hanga 7 Asts: Adams 6 PIR: Adams 31	Boxscore	Pts: Broekhoff, Delaney 21 Rebs: Claver, Singleton 7 Asts: Delaney, Draper 4 PIR: Broekhoff 29	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 10,658 Referees: Christos Christodoulou (GRE), Borys Ryzhyk (UKR), Piotr Pastusiak (POL)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 20 Darius Adams 25 6 6 SG 8 Ádám Hanga 3 7 1 SF 42 Dāvis Bertāns 13 0 1 PF 14 Kim Tillie 7 6 2 C 6 Darko Planinić 5 2 1 Reserves: PG 3 Mike James 2 0 1 PF 4 Mamadou Diop DNP SG 5 Fabien Causeur DNP C 9 Ioannis Bourousis 5 2 1 SF 11 Jaka Blažič 8 3 0 C 12 Ilimane Diop 4 3 0 SF 33 Alberto Corbacho 3 0 1 Head coach: Velimir Perasović

Laboral Kutxa 0 Lokomotiv Kuban

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 0 Malcolm Delaney 21 5 4 SG 10 Sergey Bykov 0 0 2 SF 45 Ryan Broekhoff 21 6 3 PF 9 Víctor Claver 10 7 3 PF 1 Chris Singleton 10 7 2 Reserves: C 3 Anthony Randolph DNP PG 4 Dontaye Draper 2 0 4 SG 12 Matt Janning 10 1 0 PG 15 Maxim Kolyushkin DNP PF 17 Nikita Balashkov 0 0 0 SG 18 Evgeny Voronov 0 1 0 PF 20 Andrey Zubkov 11 2 2 Head coach: Georgios Bartzokas

Championship game

The Final was the second Final Four meeting between the two teams. In the 2015 Euroleague Final Four, CSKA Moscow beat Fenerbahçe 86–80, in the third-place game.^[2] It was the first European final for Fenerbahçe, while CSKA played in its 13th championship game.

In the Final, it seemed early on that CSKA was destined to win its seventh EuroLeague title. After a strong first half, the Russian side led 30–50 at halftime, and had a lead of as many as 21 points in the third quarter. However, in the fourth quarter, Fenerbahçe surged back, and CSKA player, Victor Khryapa, had to score a tip-in with 1.9 seconds remaining on the game clock, to tie the game.^[3] It was the third Final in EuroLeague history that went to overtime. In overtime, CSKA, led by Nando De Colo, took the lead, and finally claimed its seventh EuroLeague title, and its first one in eight years.^[3]

Fenerbahçe v CSKA Moscow

15 May 2016	Fenerbahçe	96–1010(OT)	CSKA Moscow	Berlin, Germany
20:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 20–22, 10–28, 23–19, 30–14, Overtime: 13–18
	Pts: Dixon 17 Rebs: Udoh 11 Asts: Dixon 4 PIR: Udoh 24	Boxscore	Pts: De Colo 22 Rebs: Khryapa, Teodosić 5 Asts: De Colo, Teodosić 7 PIR: Teodosić 29	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 12,250 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Damir Javor (SLO)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 16 Kostas Sloukas 10 2 0 SG 13 Bogdan Bogdanović 6 3 3 SF 33 Nikola Kalinić 3 3 2 PF 70 Luigi Datome 16 5 3 PF 24 Jan Veselý 7 5 1 Reserves: PG 3 Ricky Hickman 5 0 0 PF 5 Barış Hersek DNP C 8 Ekpe Udoh 16 11 3 SG 10 Melih Mahmutoğlu 0 0 0 PF 12 Pero Antić 16 1 0 PG 23 Berk Uğurlu DNP PG 35 Bobby Dixon 17 4 1 Head coach: Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe CSKA Moscow 0 Fenerbahçe Statistics[4] CSKA 18/40 (45%) 2-pt field goals 22/36 (61.1%) 11/30 (36.7%) 3-pt field goals 9/25 (36%) 27/39 (69.2%) Free throws 30/32 (93.8%) 16 Offensive rebounds 6 22 Defensive rebounds 26 38 Total rebounds 32 16 Assists 22 13 Turnovers 13 6 Steals 8 4 Blocks 5 28 Fouls 33

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1 Nando de Colo 22 2 7 SG 22 Cory Higgins 12 1 3 SF 41 Nikita Kurbanov 4 3 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 11 3 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 15 4 2 Reserves: SG 3 Dmitry Kulagin 0 0 0 PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 19 5 7 SG 7 Vitaly Fridzon 0 0 0 PF 8 Demetris Nichols 0 1 0 PG 9 Aaron Jackson 8 1 1 C 12 Pavel Korobkov 0 2 1 PF 31 Victor Khryapa 10 5 1 Head coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

Final Four MVP

Player	Club
Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow

See also

• 2016 Eurocup Finals
• 2016 FIBA Europe Cup Final Four

References

External links

• Official website