Overview
- Rytas, which beat AEK 92–86 in overtime Saturday in Badalona, became the first Lithuanian team to win FIBA’s Basketball Champions League.
- Simonas Lukosius earned Final Four MVP after hitting a record seven threes and tying the game with 19.3 seconds left to force the competition’s first Final overtime.
- AEK controlled most of regulation, leading by as many as 20 as season MVP Frank Bartley IV reached 300 points for the season and James Nunnally scored 23, with both finishing at 20-plus.
- The title paid a €900,000 winner’s prize to Rytas and came before 10,372 fans at Palau Municipal d’Esports de Badalona.
- Head coach Giedrius Zibenas praised his “special group” for staying calm during the fourth-quarter surge that extended their winning run to seven games.