The 2024 Supercopa de España de Baloncesto, also known as Supercopa

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for sponsorship reasons, was the 21st edition of the

Supercopa de España de Baloncesto The Supercopa de España de Baloncesto ( English: ''Spanish Basketball Supercup'') is a Spanish annual men's professional basketball competition. The competition is a super cup tournament. History The Supercopa was created in 1984 by the recen ...

, an annual

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competition for clubs in the

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that were successful in its major competitions in the preceding season.

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was the six-time back-to-back defending champion, which was defeated by

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in a huge win to achieve its first supercup title and its second consecutive title after the Intercontinental Cup triumph seven days ago. All times are in

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( UTC+02:00).

Qualification

The tournament featured the winners from the three major competitions ( 2023–24 Liga Endesa, 2024 Copa del Rey and 2023 Supercopa Endesa), the host team and the remaining highest ranked teams from the 2023–24 Liga Endesa season if vacant berths exist.

Qualified teams

The following four teams qualified for the tournament.

Venue

On June 27, 2024, ACB selected and announced

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to host the supercup in September 2024. The arena holds 7,454 people and was built in 1994. It had a budget of 25 million dollars, and was the most modern arena in Europe the moment it was built. The arena hosted the 1996 Copa del Rey, 1998 All-Star weekend and 2023 Supercopa Endesa.

Draw

The draw was held on 22 August 2024.

and UCAM Murcia as league finalists were the seeded teams.

Bracket

Semifinals

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vs. Barça

Real Madrid qualified for their seventh consecutive finals after winning a closely-contested

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. Real Madrid shined especially in the third quarter, while Barça managed to overcome their worst moments of the match supported by Darío Brizuela and

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to end up reaching a tight match that fell to ''Los Blancos'' with Campazzo great contribution with 18 points, 6 assists and a decisive steal that was key to the win.

Edy Tavares Walter Samuel "Edy" Tavares da Veiga (born March 22, 1992) is a Cape Verdean professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He was selected with the 43rd overall pick in 2014 NBA draft by the Atlanta H ...

and

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were in their line from last season and

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left defensive flashes on his return to Real Madrid. Kevin Punter went from more to less in his debut with Barça.

UCAM Murcia vs.
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returned to the final after beating UCAM Murcia. The squad from Murcia competed very well during the first three quarters, even going ahead in the last one, but their problems controlling the rebound and the defensive work of Unicaja were too much for them, which played a very physical and choral match.

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and Dylan Osetkowski with 17 and 19 points, respectively, made the difference along with a providential

Melvin Ejim Melvin Obinna Ejim (born March 4, 1991) is a Nigerian-Canadian professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for Iowa State University before playing professionally in Italy, Russia and Spain, as well ...

with his points in the last quarter and they faced against Real Madrid in the final in a later edition of the last year final at the same venue. Before the start of the match, it was pay tribute to the

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Miguel Ángel Pérez Pérez in his final match after 25 seasons and more than 800 matches managed.

Final

Unicaja was crowned champion of the supercup for the first time in its history by defeating Real Madrid in a huge win. The team coached by

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, that registered the most scored quarter in the history of the supercup finals, was superior for a long time of the match against Real Madrid that was thick in the offensive and was forced to attack the rim in multiple chances due to its incessant fails from the

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and with issues with the players from the bench. On the other hand, Unicaja, which played more physically, had more organized ideas and rightly took the title to

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Awards

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References

External links

Official website
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