Euroleague 2006-07

The Euroleague is an international basketball club competition for elite clubs throughout Europe. The 2006-2007 season featured 24 competing teams from 13 different countries. The draw for the groups was held on September 14, 2006 in Athens. The competition began on October 24, 2006 at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against DKV Joventut. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007 in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, [The site of each year's Final Four is selected before the previous year's Final Four, before it can possibly be known who will advance.] with Panathinaikos defeating defending champions CSKA Moscow 93-91.

Format

Regular season

The first phase is a regular season, in which the competing teams are drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team plays 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 advance to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers is provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.

Top 16

The surviving teams are divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system is adopted resulting in 6 games each, with the top 2 teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers are identical to those used in the Regular Season.

Quarterfinals

In the quarterfinals, the top placed teams from each Top 16 group play second placed teams from a different group in a best-of-three playoff series, with the winners of those series advancing to the Final Four.

Final Four

The culminating stage of the Euroleague in which the four remaining teams play a semifinal match and the winners of those advance to the final. The losers play in a third-place playoff. The team which is victorious in the Final will be Euroleague champion.

Teams of the 2006-2007 Euroleague

As [http://www.euroleague.net/main/teams announced] on the official Euroleague site.

Group B

Teams in bold type advanced to the quarterfinals.

Group D

Group G

Quarterfinal 3

Champions Roster

4 Alvertis !5 Delk !6 Papanikolaou !7 Bečirovič !8 Batiste !9 Šiškauskas !10 Hatzivrettas !11 Dikoudis !12 Tsartsaris !13 Diamantidis (Final4 MVP) !14 Xanthopoulos !15 Tomašević !16 Sakota !18 Vujanić !19 Javtokas !Coach Obradović

Awards

Euroleague 2007 MVP

*flagicon|GRE Theodoros Papaloukas, ( flagicon|RUS CSKA Moscow )

Euroleague 2007 Final Four MVP

*flagicon|GRE Dimitris Diamantidis, ( flagicon|GRE Panathinaikos )

All Euroleague First Team 2006-2007

*flagicon|GRC Theodoros Papaloukas ( flagicon|Greece CSKA Moscow )*
*flagicon|GRC Dimitris Diamantidis ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )
*flagicon|ESP Juan Carlos Navarro ( flagicon|Spain FC Barcelona )
*flagicon|USA Trajan Langdon ( flagicon|Russia CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|ARGflagicon|ESP Luis Scola ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )
*flagicon|CRO Nikola Vujčić ( flagicon|Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv )

*A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theodoros Papaloukas. Consequently the 2006-07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players.

All Euroleague Second Team 2006-2007

*flagicon|Argentina Pablo Prigioni ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )
*flagicon|Serbia Igor Rakočević ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )
*flagicon|Lithuania Ramūnas Šiškauskas ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )
*flagicon|Slovenia Matjaž Smodiš ( flagicon|Russia CSKA Moscow )
*flagicon|Greece Lazaros Papadopoulos ( flagicon|Russia Dynamo Moscow )

Rising Star

*flagicon|Spain Rudy Fernandez ( flagicon|Spain DKV Joventut )

Best Defender

*flagicon|Greece Dimitris Diamantidis ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )

Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Award)

*flagicon|Serbia Igor Rakočević ( flagicon|Spain TAU Ceramica )

Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

*flagicon|Serbia Željko Obradović ( flagicon|Greece Panathinaikos )

Club Executive of the Year

*flagicon|Spain Juan Manuel Rodriguez ( flagicon|Spain Unicaja Malaga )

Notes and references

[http://www.euroleague.net/competition/format Euroleague Competition Format]

External links

* [http://www.euroleague.net/ Euroleague.net] - Official Euroleague homepage.
* [http://www.eurobasket.com/ Eurobasket.com] - Popular basketball news site.
* [http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/ TalkBasket.net] - Basketball forum.