The 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was the 11th season of the modern era of professional
Euroleague Basketball
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, and the first under the title
sponsorship of
Turkish Airlines
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. Including the competition's previous incarnation as the
FIBA Europe
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...
Champions Cup, this was the 54th season of the
premier first-tier competition for European men's clubs.
The format featured 24 teams, beginning with Game 1 of the first qualifying round on September 21, 2010, and culminating at the
Final Four
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in the
Palau Sant Jordi,
Barcelona
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. It was won by the
Athenian
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club
Panathinaikos (6th title), who defeated
Maccabi Electra in
the championship game of May 8, 2011.
Montepaschi Siena, finished 3rd by holding off
Real Madrid
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in the third-place game.
At the individual level, the season was marked by
Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos. Not only did the
Greek point guard
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A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position and is usually the shortest player ...
lift the trophy for the third time in five years and receive the
Euroleague Final Four MVP award, but he also became the first player ever to win three end-of-season awards:
Euroleague MVP,
Euroleague Best Defender
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, and
All-Euroleague First Team.
Teams
†As winner of the
ULEB Eurocup 2009–10
Draw
The draws for the 2010–11 Turkish Airlines Euroleague was held on Thursday, July 8 at
Barcelona
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,
Spain
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. The draws began at 11:15 local time (
CET) and determined the qualifying-round matchups and regular-season groups for the Euroleague, as well as the qualifying rounds for the Eurocup and the regular-season for the EuroChallenge.
Teams were organised into six pots of four teams.
Two teams from the same country cannot coincide in the same Regular Season group, except for Spain that has five teams participating in the competition.
Qualifying rounds
The Qualifying Rounds consisted of three rounds, QR1, QR2 and QR3. The rounds were played in home and away series.
Regular season
The Regular Season began on 18 October 2010 with
Olympiacos hosting
Real Madrid
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and ended on 23 December 2010.
If teams were level on record at the end of the Regular Season, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:
# Head-to-head record.
# Head-to-head point differential.
# Point differential during the Regular Season.
# Points scored during the regular season.
# Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.
Top 16
The 16 qualified teams were drawn into four groups with four teams. The matches were played between January 19 and March 3, the top two teams of every group advanced to the playoffs. The draw took place on 4 January 2011 at
Barcelona
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at 13:00 CET, and was streamed live on the Euroleague's official website.
Quarterfinals
Team 1 hosted Games 1 and 2, plus Game 5 if necessary. Team 2 hosted Game 3, and Game 4 if necessary.
Final four
Individual statistics
Rating
Points
Rebounds
Assists
Other Stats
Game highs
Awards
Euroleague 2010–11 MVP
*
Dimitris Diamantidis (
Panathinaikos)
Euroleague 2010–11 Final Four MVP
*
Dimitris Diamantidis (
Panathinaikos)
All-Euroleague Team 2010–11
Top scorer ( Alphonso Ford Trophy)
*
Igor Rakočević (
Efes Pilsen)
Best Defender
*
Dimitris Diamantidis (
Panathinaikos)
Rising Star
*
Nikola Mirotić (
Real Madrid
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)
Coach of the Year ( Alexander Gomelsky Award)
*
Željko Obradović
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(
Panathinaikos)
Club Executive of the Year
*
Pavlos Giannakopoulos and
Thanasis Giannakopoulos (
Panathinaikos)
MVP Weekly
Regular season
Top 16
Quarterfinals
MVP of Month
References and notes
External links
Euroleague.net Official SiteEurobasket.com Euroleague Page
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