Basketball
Euroleague: Real Madrid beat Maccabi with Len, there was a sensation in Dubai, Valencia’s failure
Four matches were played in the 21st round of the regular season in the Euroleague on January 8.
Real Madrid took revenge for its first round defeat at home against Maccabi.
The guest team started the match better and won the first quarter 25:21. But even before the big break, Los Blancos managed to rally and take the lead with 48:47 remaining. At the beginning of the third quarter, Real took a 12:0 lead and moved away from Maccabi by the same 12 points (65:53). Madrid then controlled the course of the game and maintained a double-digit advantage, securing a crushing victory – 98:86.
Real Madrid’s Ukrainian headquarters Alexey Len He spent 4 minutes on the field and during this time he made 2 missed free throws, 1 assist and 1 block.
The most productive player of the match was Hezonja, who scored 16 points for the home team.
Dubai confidently beat Fenerbahce at home.
The home team did not lose a single quarter against the Euroleague champion and gradually increased its advantage. As a result, Dubai won with a score of 92:81.
While Wright, the most productive player of the match, won with 22 points, Kamenyash also recorded a double-double with 20 points and 15 rebounds.
In the most important match of the day, Valencia lost at home to Monaco, making Hapoel Tel Aviv the sole leader of the Euroleague.
The key point of the match was an even fight until the middle of the second quarter, after which Monaco made a 9:0 attack and broke away from the home team by 13 points at 53:40. Then the guests took control of the course of the game, did not allow Valencia to take a single shot and eventually won with a score of 101:92. This also allowed Monaco to catch up with their rivals in the standings.
While James had a double-double with 14 points and 10 assists, Diallo became Monaco’s top scorer with 17 points.
Europa League. Regular season. 21st round, January 9
Dubai-Fenerbahçe-92:81 (24:22, 27:20, 22:20, 19:19)
Dubai: Wright (22 points + 2 rebounds + 4 assists), Kamenyash (20+15+1), Bacon (15+2+4), Kabangele (14+5+1), Anderson (11+4 rebounds), Bertans (3+1+1), Petrushev (2+4 rebounds), Abass (2+2+1), Shanly (2+1 rebounds), Avramovich (1+2 assists).
Fenerbahce: Baldwin (21+2+5), Horton-Tucker (15+5+1), Jantunen (13+1+1), Hall (9+1+3), Biberovich (8+3 rebounds), Birch (7+1+1), Mahmutoğlu (3+1 assists), Boston (2+3 rebounds), Colson (2), Silva (1), Melli (2 rebounds + 1 assist).
Panathinaikos – Virtus Bologna – 84:71 (23:15, 16:18, 17:15, 28:23)
Panathinaikos: Nunn (21+5+3), Holmes (16+9 rebounds), Osman (11+2+1), Hernangomez (9+8+1), Grant (7+1+4), Rogkavopoulos (7+2 rebounds), Sloukas (5+3+3), Shorts (4+1+5), Farid (2), Yurtseven (2+4+1).
virtus: Edwards (24+4 rebounds), Morgan (12+3+1), Akele (10+6 rebounds), Payola (6+6+4), Taylor (6+2+4), Hackett (6+3+2), Yallov (3), Smailagic (2), Diouf (2+1 rebounds), N’Young (7 rebounds + 1 assist), Alston (2 rebounds + 1 assist).
Valencia – Monaco – 92:101 (28:26, 14:27, 28:23, 22:25)
Valencia: Taylor (18+4+1), Thompson (17+2+4), Montero (15+4+3), Rivers (12+2+1), Badio (8+2+1), Pradilla (7+2+3), Key (6+2 assists), Moore (3+3+3), Costello (2+3 rebounds), Puerto (2+5+1), Saco (2+1+1).
Monaco: Diallo (17+2+2), Nedovic (16+2+3), Hayes (15+6+2), Blossomgame (14+3 rebounds), James (14+2+10), Mirotic (13+3+1), Okobo (9+1+3), Tarpey (2+3+1), Strazel (1+2+5).
Real Madrid – Maccabi Tel Aviv – 98:86 (21:25, 27:22, 28:18, 22:21)
Real: Hezonja (16+4+3), Campazzo (15+2+5), Lyles (12+2+1), Feliz (12+2+2), Ara (11+5+2), Tavares (9+11 rebounds), Abalde (7+3+1), Maledon (7+2+6), Garuba (4+2 rebounds), Okeke (3+1+2), Yul (2+1 rebounds), Len (1 assist) + 1 blocked shot).
maccabi: DiBartolomeo (14+4+1), Leaf (13+5+1), Lundberg (12+3+3), Clark (11+1+4), Gord (10+7 rebounds), Brissett (9+2 rebounds), Santos (7+4 rebounds), Sorkin (4+1+6), Blatt (4+1+2), Ryman (2).
tournament table
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Basketball
A stadium in Europe was drowned in Russian flags. The vile prank of the Balts did not go unanswered
Photo: © RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
A beautiful gesture from the fraternal people.
Sanctions against Russian athletes are gradually being eased, but for the most part they are still in effect. Today, there is a growing understanding in the global sports community that without our athletes, international competitions lose a lot.
An important point in this situation is not only the political will of individual officials, but also the opinion of ordinary citizens of Western countries. Often ordinary people show much more common sense than officials.
Fans of the European club hung Russian flags in the stands to support our athletes in a difficult situation.
Reply to Lithuanians
In April 2022, the moral panic around everything Russian was at its peak. It is not surprising that in European countries every public event was used to make one or another statement on a topic. The Baltic states, traditionally unfriendly towards Russia, especially tried.
Thus, during the Euroleague basketball match between the Lithuanian Zalgiris and the Serbian Red Star in Kaunas, local fans staged a political provocation: during the game, NATO flags appeared in the stands, and spectators began shouting insulting words at the Serbian basketball players.
The reason was that the Serbian side has always supported Russia in international conflicts. Before the match, the Crvena Zvezda basketball players followed this tradition and refused to be photographed with an anti-Russian banner, as the Zalgiris players did. If now the Olympic principle of political neutrality of sport is gradually being remembered, then in the West they preferred to hypocritically remain silent about it when it came to Russia.
Some time later, when Crvena was already playing a home match with the Turkish club Anadolu Efes, Serbian fans unfurled Russian flags in the stands, as well as banners with crossed out emblems of NATO and the European Union. Ordinary people of Serbia have shown that they are unequivocally on the side of the fraternal people.
Consistent support
Fans of Red Star, a club that has teams in many sports, have generally always had close ties to Russia. For example, the friendship between the fan movements of the Belgrade club and Moscow Spartak is well known. Football fans from Serbia have also expressed support for the Russians more than once. Back in 2017, during the match between Crvena and Krasnodar in the Europa League, flags with the Russian coat of arms were raised at the Rajko Mitić stadium.
Russian flags appear regularly at matches of the Serbian football championship. The most interesting thing is that it is very easy to get a tricolor in the Balkan country: just buy a Serbian flag and turn it over – and there you have the Russian flag. The fans, of course, take advantage of this opportunity.
In February 2025, we again watched the basketball confrontation between Red Star and Zalgiris in the Euroleague. This time, all the stands of the arena in Belgrade were painted in the colors of the Russian flag, and the fans sang “Katyusha” and MakSim’s song “Do You Know” – the unofficial anthem of Moscow Spartak.
“These Russian songs and banners were a reminder of the strong ties between the Serbian and Russian peoples that have lasted for centuries, and they also show an even stronger relationship between the fans of Red Star and Spartak Moscow,” a spokesman for the Serbian team told Sport24.
The longer Russian clubs and national teams remain suspended from international competition, the more the global sports community sees the absurdity of these sanctions – especially against the backdrop of double standards that apply when it comes to other countries.
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San Antonio Spurs star Victor Vembanyama Commented on the atmosphere of the away game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the NBA regular season – 89:119.
The Frenchman was loudly booed by the fans, but when asked if he had to play in a more hostile atmosphere, he said it was nothing special, recalling the Panathinaikos fans:
“I think the place that stands out the most is Panathinaikos. When we talk about a hostile atmosphere, I think it doesn’t get any more hostile than this. Other arenas can be just as noisy, but Panathinaikos is by far the most impressive for me.
There are teams in Europe that depend almost entirely on their fans. The first thing that comes to my mind is Le Portel in France. They have some of the best fans in the league and thanks to this energy they are able to stay in the elite league every season. They don’t have a very strong roster, but their culture and momentum is crazy. “This team is what it is thanks in large part to its fans.”
Victor also noted that despite the more aggressive fans in Europe, it is still harder to play in the NBA.
“It is much more difficult because the level of the players is much higher.”
In the match against Thunder, Vembanyama recorded 17 points (3/6 free throws, 7/15 field goals), 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block in 28 minutes on the field.
He increased that number to 500 in just 143 games. Only three players have reached 500 blocked shots faster than him: Manute Bol (121 games), David Robinson (124) and Mark Eaton (136).
Victor Wembanyama (22 years, 9 days) tonight became the second youngest player in NBA history to reach 500 career blocks!
The smallest? Josh Smith (21 years, 88 days)
He is also the fourth player to reach this level among those who debuted in 1973-74 or later (all blocks in the first season were recorded). pic.twitter.com/1UpOqgCGMJ
— NBA History (@NBAHistory) January 14, 2026
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BC Cherkasy Mavpy is failing in the current part of the Basketball Super League season. Dmitry Nagorny’s team lost eight matches in a row, which caused the management to think about personnel changes.
As it is known Spor.uaCoach of the Cherkasy team Dmitry Nagorny may resign from his post. To rectify the situation with results, the specialist was given three matches.
Nagorny’s fate will depend on the results of the matches against Kharkiv Falcons (January 18), Dnepr (January 31) and Zaporozhye (February 1).
This season, Cherkasy Mavpy is in the 8th place in the Super League rankings and could only get 4 wins in 15 matches in the season. In the last campaign, Cherkasy Mavpy became the bronze medalist of the Super League.
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Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
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