Apart from the big victory of Maccabi Tel Aviv tonight (Thursday) in Barcelona, another game was played in the Euroleague in which Milan defeated Wheelerban 80:81 dramatically, in the last game of the two teams in the regular season.
Now the Italians will wait for Real Madrid’s game tomorrow against Bayern Munich. If Pablo Lasso’s side loses to the Germans, the Italians will finish in third place. If the Blancos win, Messina’s team will finish in fourth place.
The first half of the game was particularly close and the French went down by a point advantage at the break. In the third quarter the Italians took control of the game led by Malcolm Delaney, who finished as the leading scorer with 24 points. Milan had already raised the lead to 12 points within the final quarter, but David Letty led a big comeback, and 10 seconds to go, after a whistle for a bizarre unsportsmanlike foul by the referees, Liti missed a critical free throw, as well as an attempt by Chris Jones to beat The game on the buzzer was not successful.
Aside from Delaney, Tomaso Baldasso, who has played just two minutes tonight in his Euroleague career, scored 13 points in less than 15 minutes. Devon Hall added 11 of his own. Among the losers Letty excelled with 28 points in 25 minutes and the young Victor Wembanyama added 18 points.