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May 21, 2013


	CSKA Moscow celebrates its first Euroleague title in 35 years. CSKA also added the Russian League and the Russian Cup titles to win its first-ever triple crown in a historic 2005-06 season! It was the first of three consecutive Euroleague finals for the Russian powerhouse. CSKA lost against Panathinaikos 93-91 in the 2007 title game, but bounced back with a 77-91 again against Maccabi in 2008. With a solid team that knows what it wants, the best could be yet to come for CSKA Moscow, which has put together one of the best teams in European Club competitions history. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Matjaz Smodis explodes with joy after CSKA Moscow won the 2006 Euroleague title. Smodis had previously lifted the Euroleague trophy with Kinder Bologna in 2001. He had 12 points and 8 rebounds in the final against Maccabi. Smodis is the only player to reach the Euroleague final with three different teams, as he also took part the 2004 title game in which his team, Skipper Bologna, lost against Maccabi. It is safe to say that Smodis is already a big part of European Cup history at age 29, just as he enters the prime of his career. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Anthony Parker of Maccabi Elite takes a fade-away jumper over Theo Papaloukas of CSKA Moscow during the 2006 Euroleague final in Prague, the Czech Republic. CSKA dethroned Maccabi 73-69 to win its first Euroleague title in 35 years. Papaloukas had 18 points and 7 assists coming off the CSKA bench as usual and earning Final Four MVP honors. David Vanterpool added 16 points, Matjaz Smodis had 12, Trajan Langdon 11 and Aleksey Savrasenko 10 for CSKA. Willie Solomon led Maccabi with 20 points. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Sarunas Jasikevicius lifts the 2005 Euroleague Final Four MVP award. Jasikevicius had just won his third consecutive Euroleague title and helped Maccabi to down Tau Ceramica in the final with 22 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, enough to be voted the MVP. Maceo Baston added 18 points on 8-for-12 shooting, Nestoras Kommatos and Nikola Vujcic each had 13 points and Anthony Parker added 12 for the back-to-back Euroleague champion. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Maccabi lifts the 2004 Euroleague trophy after a record-breaking show in the title game. Maccabi thrashed Skipper Bologna 118-74 in the final at Nokia Arena before one of the most euphoric crowds in basketball history. From the opening tap, Maccabi ruled its home floor, soaring to a 25-point halftime lead and never looking back. Maccabi Tel Aviv, the team that represents Israel best all around the world, succeeded in his biggest goal of the season: become the new Euroleague champion on its own court. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Maccabi lifts the 2004 Euroleague trophy. It was its fourth European club title in team history. Maccabi had won the European Cup in 1977 and 1981, as well as the FIBA SuproLeague crown in 2001. Maccabi downed CSKA 93-85 in the semifinal behind 27 points from Anthony Parker. Sarunas Jasikevicius added 18 and 6 assists. Maccabi went on to overwhelm Skipper Bologna 118-74 in the title game. Parker scored 21 points and was named Final Four, leading Maccabi to a huge win that broke all the scoring records in European Cup final history in front of a majority of yellow fans at Nokia Arena. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Juan Carlos Navarro of FC Barcelona celebrates a key basket late in the 2003 Euroleague semifinal game against CSKA Moscow. Barcelona beat CSKA 76-71 in the semifinal behind 21 points from Gregor Fucka and 17 from Dejan Bodiroga. In the title game against Benetton Treviso, Barcelona did not disappoint thousands of fans with a 76-65 win. Once again Bodiroga, with 20 points, 8 rebounds and Final Four MVP honors, and Fucka with 17 points, led Barcelona to a historic win and its first Euroleague title. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Kinder Bologna celebrates the 2001 Euroleague title. Kinder downed Tau Ceramica in an unforgettable five-game playoff series. Manu Ginobili became the Euroleague finals MVP, leading Kinder to the trophy. It all came down to Game 5 in Bologna and Kinder did not disappoint its fans when it mattered most. Kinder beat Tau 82-74 in the do-or-die game thanks to 18 points from Antoine Rigaudeau and 16 each from Ginobili and Marco Jaric. Elmer Bennett led Tau with 24 points, but it was not enough for the Spanish side to win the original Euroleague title. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Zeljko Obradovic holds the 2002 Euroleague trophy while telling everyone that he just won his fifth top continental title. Obradovic helped Panathinaikos to win its third European Cup title - its second in three years. He had previously won the competition with Partizan in 1992, Joventut in 1994 and Real Madrid in 1995. With a sixth title won with Panathinaikos won in 2007, Obradovic is the most successful coach in European club basketball history. He is just 48 years old and has plenty of time to keep lifting European Cup trophies. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Sarunas Jasikevicius celebrates the 2003 Euroleague title with thousands of FC Barcelona fans at Palau San Jordi, Spain. FC Barcelona had lost five European Cup finals in the past but finally lifted the Euroleague trophy on May 9, 2003. At the same time, Jasikevicius had just won his first of three consecutive Euroleague titles. Nobody else has achieved this goal since 1991, so it is safe to say that "Saras" is nothing but a legendary player, as well as one of the most charismatic players in European basketball history. PHOTO: Euroleague Basketball
	Maccabi won it all again and became the 2005 Euroleague champion. It also became the first team to successfully defend the Euroleague title since 1991, downing Tau Ceramica 90-78 in the final. Sarunas Jasikevicius, who was named MVP, led Maccabi with 22 points and whole lot of floor leadership. Maceo Baston added 16 points for the winners, who got a big boost off the bench in 13 first-half points from Nestoras Kommatos. "Yellow is still in fashion in European basketball!", Jasikevicius said right after the final. Maccabi had just won its fifth European club title and its legend lives on. PHOTO: Giorgos Matthaios, Euroleague Basketball


	Zalgiris poses as the 1999 European Cup winner. Few counted on Zalgiris to lift the trophy at a Final Four in Munich, Germany, together with Kinder Bologna, Olympiacos and Fortitudo Bologna, but Tyus Edney and Anthony Bowie allowed their team to win the European Cup title. Zalgiris downed Olympiacos 87-71 in the semifinal behind 19 points from Bowie and 15 from Dainius Adomaitis. Then in the title game against Kinder, Edney recorded 14 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists to lead the Lithuanian powerhouse to a historic 74-82 win, which helped restore offensive-minded basketball to the forefront. PHOTO: Lietuvos Rytas, Lithuania
	Giorgios Sigalas shows the European Cup trophy to all his Olympiacos teammates after Olympiacos downed FC Barcelona 73-58 in the 1997 European Cup final behind 26 points from David Rivers. The Reds completed a historical triple crown, also winning the Greek League and Greek Cup titles. Sigalas also played his role to perfection as one of the best defensive stoppers ever seen in Europe. Barcelona's starting backcourt, Sasha Djordjevic and Xavi Fernandez, combined for just 6 points that night. Sigalas scored 7 points and Dimitris Papanikolaou and Dragan Tarlac each added 11 for the Reds. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Dominique Wilkins poses with the 1996 European Cup trophy. It was his only European Cup title, the first one for Panathinaikos and also the first ever for any Greek team in competition history. Wilkins was a major factor for Panathinaikos in the 1996 Final Four. He had 35 points - shooting 13 for 13 from the line - and 8 rebounds in the semifinal against CSKA to lead the Greens to a 71-81 win. Then in the title game, Panathinaikos beat Barcelona 67-66 as Wilkins recorded an important double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds. PHOTO: Action Images, Greece
	Real Madrid poses as the 1995 European Cup champion, as head coach Zeljko Obradovic and team president Ramon Mendoza hold the trophy. Arvydas Sabonis, hiding the game basketball under his jersey, won his only European Cup title that year. Sabonis had previously lost a European Cup final with Zalgiris in 1986, but this time he simply dominated. He had 23 points and 7 rebounds, while Joe Arlauckas added 16 points to lead Madrid past Olympiacos 73-61 in the title game in Zaragoza, Spain. Madrid won its eighth European Cup title. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Joventut poses as the 1994 European Cup champions. Joventut downed Olympiacos 59-57 in the title game at Yad Eliyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ferran Martinez paced the winners with 17 points and Corny Thompson buried the game-winning triple. Joventut had lost the 1992 European Cup final on a game-winning shot, but this time it managed to keep Olympiacos scoreless in the final six minutes. Meanwhile, Jordi Villacampa and Thompson struck from downtown to win it for Joventut. Olympiacos had the final possession, but missed three times and allowed Joventut to win the game down the stretch. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Limoges celebrates the 1993 European Cup title with its fans in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is remembered as one of the biggest surprises in competition history. Limoges edged Benetton 59-55 in the title game behind 18 points from Michael Young. Limoges rode a well-organized offense and strong defense, always playing team-first basketball, en route to the title. Limoges downed heavy favorite Real Madrid, which featured Arvydas Sabonis, 62-52 in the semifinal behind 20 points from the unstoppable Young. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Predrag Danilovic of Partizan tries to score against Johnny Rogers and Riccardo Pittis of Philips Milano in the 1992 European Cup semifinal. Partizan beat Milano 82-75 to advance to the final behind 22 points from Danilovic. In the title game, Danilovic scored 25 points to help Partizan beat Joventut 71-70 on an incredible game-winning three-pointer by Sasha Djordjevic. He raced downcourt, stopped at the three-point line and buried one of the most memorable shots in European Cup history. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Toni Kukoc poses with the European Cup trophy in 1990. Jugoplastika Split had just downed FC Barcelona 72-67 in the title game in Zaragoza, Spain. Kukoc paced the winners with 20 points and 7 rebounds. Even though Dino Radja, Goran Sobin, Dusko Ivanovic and head coach Bozidar Maljkovic left the team in summer 1990, Kukoc would join forces with Velimir Perasovic and Zoran Savic to lead Split to a third consecutive European Cup title. Only Split (1989-91) and ASK Riga (1958-60) have managed to win three straight top continental titles. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Dino Radja hugs head coach Bozidar Maljkovic after Jugoplastika Split had won its second consecutive European Cup title in 1990. Even though Radja and Maljkovic went away, Split would lift the European Cup trophy again in 1991. In 1990, Jugoplastika downed Barcelona 72-67 in the final in Zaragoza, Spain, behind 20 points from Toni Kukoc and 12 each from Radja, Dusko Ivanovic and Velimir Perasovic. Barcelona rallied from an early deficit to take a 59-61 lead, but Kukoc stepped up to allow Split to celebrate back-to-back European Cup titles. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Dino Radja of Jugoplastika Split dunks it in a European Cup game against Commodore Den Helder of The Netherlands. Radja won consecutive European Cup titles with Split in 1989 and 1990 as the highlight of career rewarded with his being named one of the 50 greatest contributors to the first half-century of European Club Basketball. He also won league titles in Yugoslavia, Greece and Croatia, a 1992 Korac Cup title, the 1989 and 1991 EuroBasket titles, as well as the silver medal at the 1992 Olympic games with Croatia. PHOTO: KK Split, Croatia
	Arguably the most incredible play in European Cup history took place in the 1992 European Cup final. After Tomas Jofresa completed a wild Joventut comeback with an acrobatic jumper that gave Joventut a 68-70 edge with seconds to go, Sasha Djordjevic raced downcourt and buried a running three-pointer to make Partizan beat Joventut 71-70 and win its only continental title. Predrag Danilovic paced the winners with 25 points and Djordjevic added 23, including the shot that changed Partizan's history for good. Joventut would bounce back from its loss by lifting the 1994 European Cup trophy. PHOTO: Diario As, Spain
	In one of the most talked-about plays in competition history, Stojan Vrankovic of Panathinaikos blocks a shot by Jose Montero of FC Barcelona in the final seconds of the 1996 European Cup final. Barcelona trailed 67-66 at the moment, and despite getting the offensive rebound, could not score on the game's remaining time. Protests of the referees decison to consider Vrankovic's block legal were heard into the early hours of the next morning before the play was upheld and Panathinaikos declared the winner, 67-66, making it the first Greek team to win the European Cup title. Fragiskos Alvertis led the Greens with 17 points. PHOTO: Action Images, Greece


	Renato Villalta of Sinudyne Bologna grabs a rebound against Motti Aroesti of Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv in the 1981 European Cup final. Maccabi downed Virtus 80-79 to win its second European crown in the title game in Strasbourg, France. Mickey Berkowitz led the winners with 20 points, Earl Williams added 19 while Aulcie Perry had 18 for Maccabi. Marco Bonamico had 26 points for Virtus, that led 37-39 at halftime. Berkowitz had the game-deciding layup with 15 seconds to go, allowing an entire country to celebrate that Maccabi was once again the European Cup champion. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
	Franco Boselli of Billy Milano goes past Jim Brewer and Wallace Bryant of Ford Cantu in the 1983 European Cup final played in Grenoble, France. Cantu edged Milano 69-68 to win its second consecutive European Cup title. For the first time since 1962, two teams from the same country faced each other in the European Cup final. It all came down to the final play, as Vitorio Gallinari of Milano grabbed an offensive board and took an easy shot, but Jim Brewer had a huge block that allowed Cantu to win its second consecutive European Cup title. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
	Fernando Martin of Real Madrid tries to score against Aca Petrovic and Mihovil Nakic of Cibona in the 1985 European Cup final played in Athens, Greece. Drazen Petrovic had 26 of his 36 points in the second half to lead Cibona to a 87-78 win. Martin, who passed away in 1989 due to a tragic car accident, won two Saporta Cup titles with Madrid in 1984 and 1989. He stays as one of the best players in Spanish basketball history. Nakic keeps working for Cibona, now as its general manager, but won a second European Cup title in 1986 and lifted the Saporta Cup trophy in 1987. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	Cibona superstar Drazen Petrovic celebrates the European Cup title with hundreds of fans at the Zagreb airport. Petrovic, who passed away in 1993, is one of the biggest icons not only in European basketball history, but also a national hero in Croatia. Petrovic won back-to-back European Cup titles with Cibona in 1985 and 1986, lifted the Saporta Cup trophy in 1987 and reached the Korac Cup final in 1988, always with Cibona. In his only season with Madrid, Petrovic had 62 points to make his team win the 1989 Saporta Cup title, downing Snaidero Caserta 117-113 in one of the best games ever seen in European basketball history. PHOTO: Slobodan Zupanovic, Sportske Novosti, Croatia
	Ken Barlow of Tracer Milano shines with a two-handed dunk in the 1987 European Cup final while Lee Johnson and Howard Lassof of Maccabi watch from the distance. Milano won the game 71-69 in Laussane, Switzerland, and lifted its second European Cup title. Roberto Premier paced the winners with 23 points while Bob McAdoo added 21 for Milano, coached by Dan Peterson. Lee Johnson had 24 points for Maccabi, that had the game's final possession. Doron Jamchi airballed an eight-meter shot that allowed all Milano fans to celebrate a historical win. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Bob McAdoo of Tracer Milano kisses head coach Dan Peterson after the 1987 European Cup final. Peterson had just announced that he would leave the club at the end of the season. Even with that, Milano won win a second consecutive European Cup title in 1988 with head coach Franco Casalini. Just like in 1987, Milano topped Maccabi 90-84 behind 25 points and 12 rebounds from an outstanding McAdoo. Maccabi rallied from an 11-point deficit to tie it at 78-78, but experience allowed Milano to win the game. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
	Dino Meneghin of Tracer Milano celebrates yet another European Cup title in 1988. Meneghin stays as the winningest player with European Cup history with seven titles - five with Varese and two more with Milano. He has also won Saporta Cup titles in 1967 and 1980 with Varese, as well as lifting a 1985 Korac Cup trophy with Milano. Other highlights in his career as 12 Italian League titles, the gold medal at EuroBasket 1983 and a silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games with the Italian national team. He started his professional career at age 16 - and was still playing at 44. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Team captain Dusko Ivanovic lifts the European Cup trophy while all his Jugoplastika Split teammates celebrates the 1989 European Cup title. Jugoplastika had just beaten Maccabi 75-69 in the final in Munich, West Germany, behind 20 points from Dino Radja. Few people expected Jugoplastika to win the title but Toni Kukoc, Radja, Ivanovic or Velimir Perasovic led Split to lift the trophy, starting one of the biggest dynasties in European basketball history. Split would add two more European Cup titles in 1990 and 1991. PHOTO: Gigantes del Basket, Spain
	Pierluigi Marzorati opens a champagne bottle to celebrate that Squibb Cantu has just become the 1982 European Cup champion. Cantu downed Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 86-80 in the title game in Cologne, Germany. Bruce Flowers paced the winners with 23 points, Charles Kupec added 21 while Marzorati and Antonello Rive each had 18. Riva (left) is close to the action. Cantu had previously won four Saporta Cups and also lifted three Korac Cups trophies, but this was its first top continental crown. Cantu won successfully defend the European Cup title the following season. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
	Tracer Milano playmaker Mike D'Antoni celebrates the 1987 European Cup title, as part of the trophy is about to hit him in the head. D'Antoni, a successful coach nowadays, fired in 5 three-pointers in his team's 71-69 win against Maccabi in the final and finished the game with 17 points. Roberto Premier led Milano with 23 points while Bob McAdoo added 21. Just like Cantu and Cibona did also in the eighties, Milano won a second consecutive European Cup title in 1988. Milano met Maccabi once again in the final and registered a 90-84 win behind 25 points from an unstoppable McAdoo. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy
	Andro Knego and the Petrovic brothers, Aca and Drazen, arrive in Zagreb with the European Cup trophy the day after the 1985 final. Knego holds the European Cup trophy while Aca Petrovic has the game basketball signed by the entire team. Drazen Petrovic had 26 of his 36 points in the second half to lead Cibona to a 87-78 win at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Athens, Greece. Aca Petrovic and Zoran Cutura added 16 points each for Cibona, that would successfully defend the European Cup title with a 94-82 win against Zalgiris in the 1986 final in Budapest, Hungary. PHOTO: Robert Valai, Sportske Novosti, Croatia


	Ottorino Flaborea lifts the 1970 European Cup trophy - the first of five titles for Ignis Varese. Dino Meneghin had 20 points and Manuel Raga added 19 to make Varese beat CSKA Moscow 79-74 in the title game in Sarajevo. Both teams had traded massive home wins in the quarterfinals group stage and advanced to the two-way semifinals. Varese and CSKA swept their respective semifinal series against Real Madrid and Slavia Prague. An outstanding Raga had 15 points in the first half for a 44-34 Varese lead at the break. CSKA did not complete its comeback in the second half. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport
	Ignis Varese head coach Aza Nikolic talks to Aldo Ossola, Dino Meneghin and Marino Zanatta in a 1972 European Cup game. Nikolic, who passed away in 2000, is considered the Father of Yugoslav basketball. Varese and Nikolic won their second European Cup title in 1972, edging Jugoplastika Split 70-69 in the title game played at Yad Eliyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel. Manuel Raga was the game hero by hitting the winning jumper with seconds to go. Jugoplastika had a final chance but Damir Solman missed around the basket at the buzzer. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport
	Walter Szczerbiak of Real Madrid tries to score against Dino Meneghin of Ignis Varese in 1974 European Cup final. Vicente Ramos and Wayne Brabender of Real Madrid watch the action. Madrid beat Varese 84-82 in the title game in Nantes, France. Brabender paced the winners with 22 points while Carmelo Cabrera added 16 before fouling out. Juan Antonio Corbalan, back then a teenager, played a key role in the final minutes. Madrid and not won the European Cup since 1968 but its players lifted the trophy for the fifth time in club history. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	Dino Meneghin of Mobilgirgi Varese tries a jump hook against Rafael Rullan of Real Madrid in the 1976 European Cup final. Varese beat Madrid 81-74 to win its fifth Euroleague title in seven years. Bob Morse led the winners with 28 points on 13-for-19 shooting while Meneghin added 23 and 11 rebounds for Varese. Walter Szczerbiak had 24 points for Madrid while Brabender added 22. Despite using just seven players, defense and intensity were the keys for Varese, that won its final European Cup title in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 1, 1976. PHOTO: La Gazzetta dello Sport
	Aldo Ossola gets a rebound against Walter Szczerbiak in the 1978 European Cup final. Just as Dino Meneghin, Ossola played 10 consecutive European Cup finals with Varese from 1970 to 1979, lifting as many as five titles. In 1978, however, it was Real Madrid that downed Varese 75-67 in the title game played in Munich, West Germany. Walter Szczerbiak paced the winners with 26 points while Wayne Brabender added 16. Charlie Yelverton had 24 points for Varese while Dino Meneghin added 23. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	Walter Szczerbiak plays with the European Cup trophy with son Wally, now a NBA star. Madrid had just won the 1978 European Cup trophy and Szczerbiak had 26 points in the title game against Mobilgirgi Varese, that led 40-41 at halftime. Madrid managed to stop Bob Morse, that went scoreless in the second half, and won the game 75-67. It was the sixth European Cup title for Madrid, that has added two more titles in the last 30 years - in 1980, still with Szczerbiak in the team, and in 1995 with legendary center Arvydas Sabonis. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	Zarko Varajic of Bosna Sarajevo lifts the European Cup trophy in 1979. Varajic had 45 points in the title game against Varese. No other player, before or after, has scored more than 40 points in the top competition's final. His teammate Mirza Delibasic added 30 to make Bosna down heavy favourites Varese 96-93 in Grenoble, France. Delibasic, who passed away in 2001, is arguable the best player ever to come out of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with outstanding creativity and ballhandling. A genius way ahead of his time that also allowed Varajic to have a career-best game against Varese. PHOTO: KK Bosna
	Dino Meneghin of Ignis Varese tries to intimidate Jose Ramon Ramos of Real Madrid while Manuel Raga watches the action in the 1970 European Cup semifinals. That semifinal series marked the start of one of the biggest sports rivalries ever seen in continental basketball. Varese would sweep its series against Madrid and down CSKA Moscow in the 1970 European Cup final to win its first of five continental crowns in the next decade. Madrid would also lifted the European Cup trophy in 1974, 1978 and 1980. Both teams faced each other four times in the European Cup final from 1974 to 1978. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	Sergei Belov lifts the European Cup trophy in front of his CSKA Moscow teammates. CSKA had just beaten Ignis Varese 67-53 in the 1971 European Cup title game and Belov had 24 points off the bench. FIBA general secretary William Jones (right) follows the action while teammates like Alexander Kulkov, Vadim Kapranov, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov and Nikolaj Kovyrkin start to celebrate. CSKA had just won its fourth European Cup title - but it had to wait for 35 long years to regain the continental crown until it beat Maccabi Elite in the 2006 Euroleague final.PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz
	FIBA general secretary Borislav Stankovic hands Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv captain Tal Brody the European Cup title - with a little bit of trouble - at the end of the 1977 final. Maccabi went against all expectations and downed heavy favourite Mobilgirgi Varese 78-77 in the title game. Jim Boatwright led the winners with 26 points, Mickey Berkowitz added 17 while Aulcie Perry had 12 for Maccabi, that won its first European Cup title in that night in Belgrade. Dino Meneghin had 23 points for Varese, that could not score in the game's final possession, allowing an entire country to celebrate. PHOTO: Fundacion Pedro Ferrandiz


	Lolo Sainz tries to block a shot in the tiebreaking game of the 1963 European Cup final. CSKA downed Real Madrid 99-80 to lift its second European Cup title. Gennadiy Volnov had 22 points in the do-or-die game. Both teams had traded 17-point wins in the two-way series, forcing a tiebreak game. Real Madrid had downed CSKA 86-69 in the first leg, while a tip-in by Bob Burgess allowed the Spanish powerhouse to force the tiebreaker, 91-74. That game was played the day after Game 2 and CSKA thrashed Madrid 99-80 on August 1, 1963. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Clifford Luyk of Real Madrid scores around the basket in the first leg of the 1964 European Cup final against Spartak Brno. Spartak won 110-99 with 30 points from Frantisek Konvicka, 28 from Vladimir Pistelak and 21 from Jan Bobrovsky. Emiliano Rodriguez had 31 points in that game in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Bob Burguess added 22 and Luyk got 18. Madrid rallied from that 11-point loss in the second leg of the series with a 84-64 win at Fronton Fiesta Alegre. Rodriguez paced Madrid with 28 points and Luyk had 25 points to lead their team to its first European Cup title. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Head coach Joaquin Hernandez and team captain Carlos Sevillano are lifted by the entire Real Madrid team to celebrate the 1964 European club title. Madrid overcame an 11-point deficit with a 84-64 home win in the second leg of the series. Hernandez would be replaced by technical director Pedro Ferrandiz the following season. Ferrandiz guided Madrid to win four more European Cup titles in 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1974. He also won 12 Spanish League and 11 Spanish Cup titles with Madrid in his 13 seasons with the club. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Karel Baroch, Jiri Ruzicka, Robert Mifka, Jiri Zidek and Jiri Ammer (left to right) made up the starting five of the Slavia Prague team that reach the European Cup final in 1966, registering a 77-72 loss against Simmenthal Milano in Bologna, Italy. Zidek had 22 points in the title game, while Ammer added 11 for Slavia, which had thrashed AEK 103-73 in the semifinal. The 1966 European Cup featured the first-ever Final Four experience, which was repeated in 1967. It was not until 1988 that the competition began using this format for good. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	The entire Real Madrid bench, led by head coach Pedro Ferrandiz and center Clifford Luyk, celebrates winning the 1967 European Cup title. Madrid was about to win its fourth European Cup title in five years. The 1967 European Cup Final Four took place in the Spanish capital. Real Madrid downed Olimpija 88-86 in one of the semifinals, while defending champion Simmenthal Milano topped Slavia Prague 103-97 to reach the title game. Once in the final, Madrid beat Simmenthal 91-83 behind 29 points from Emiliano Rodriguez. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Carlos Sevillano of Real Madrid shakes hands with Simmenthal Milano head coach Cesare Rubini after the 1967 European Cup title. Madrid beat defending champion Milano 91-83 behind 29 points from Emiliano Rodriguez to win its fourth European Cup title in five years. Sevillano played an entire decade (1960-69) for Real Madrid and also won nine Spanish Leagues and six Spanish Cups, as well as reaching three other European Cup finals in 1962, 1963 and 1969. Meanwhile, Rubini not only was a great basketball player and coach, but won the 1948 Olympic gold medal in water polo. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Sergei Belov of CSKA Moscow tries to dribble against Wayne Brabender of Real Madrid in the 1969 European Cup final played in Barcelona, Spain. CSKA needed double overtime to beat Madrid 103-99. Jaack Lipso beat the buzzer with a layup that forced the first overtime, 81-81. Miles Aiken missed around the basket at the end of the first extra period to take the game to a second overtime, 93-93. Vladimir Andreev and Sergei Belov stepped up in the second overtime, allowing CSKA to win its third European Cup title. PHOTO: Mundo Deportivo
	Perhaps the most unknown Euroleague champion in the last half-century is Dinamo Tbilisi of Georgia, who lifted the top continental European Cup trophy in 1962. Dinamo swept its semifinal series against defending champion CSKA Moscow to make it to the final against Real Madrid. Dinamo beat Madrid 90-83 in the first ever single-game final in European Cup history, played at the Patinoire Arena in Geneva, Switzerland. Vladimir Altabaev led Dinamo with 19 points, Ilarion Khazaradze added 18 while Vladimir Ugrekhelidze had 15 for Dinamo. The entire team poses as the 1962 European Cup champions along with head coach Otar Korkija and FIBA general secretary William Jones. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Real Madrid celebrates its second European Cup title with team president Santiago Bernabeu after the 1965 title game. Madrid also won the Spanish League and the Spanish Cup that season to complete its first-ever Triple Crown. Emiliano Rodriguez grabs Bernabeu's right arm while Carlos Sevillano helps him to hold the trophy. Head coach Pedro Ferrandiz, Bob Burgess, Clifford Luyk, Julio Descartin, Miguel Gonzalez, Jim Scott, Lolo Sainz, Jorge Garcia, Fernando Modrego and Moncho Monsalve completed the 1965 roster. Madrid downed CSKA Moscow in the two-way finals on points differential. Luyk averaged 24 points in the series. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Few players had a bigger impact in European basketball than Bill Bradley, to led Simmenthal Milano to win its first European Cup trophy in 1966. It was also the first title for an Italian team. Bradley helped Milano to reach the first-ever Final Four, played in Bologna and Milano. Simmenthal downed CSKA 68-57 in the semifinal and then knocked off Slavia Prague 77-72 in the title game. Bradley had 14 points in the final while Skip Thoren and Gabriele Vianello led Milano with 21 apiece. In this picture, Bradley tries a layup in a game against Hapoel Tel-Aviv in the two-way eighthfinals series. PHOTO: Gazzetta dello Sport


	Players battle for a rebound in a game between Spanish League powerhouse Real Madrid and Swiss League champion Urania Geneva in the first elimination rounds of the 1959 European Cup. It was the seventh game that Madrid played in European club competitions. Madrid defeated Urania 58-65 in Geneva before thrashing its opponents 71-46 in the Spanish capital. Antonio Diaz Miguel and Lluis Cortes, who later famously teamed up as the Spanish national team's coaching staff, were teammates at Real Madrid that season. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	The first editions of the European Cup featured some open air games. In this one, Academic Sofia beat OKK Belgrade 94-77 in the second leg of the 1959 European Cup semifinal. Academic would lose the title series against ASK Riga, losing the first leg 79-58 in the Latvian capital and the second game 67-69 in Sofia. Georgi Panov, Ljubomir Panov, Viktor Radev, Mikhail Semov and Konstantin Stojmenov were Academic’s main players. The team was coached by Bozhidar Takev, one of the most influential personalities in Bulgarian basketball history. PHOTO: Politika Belgrade, Serbia
	FIBA general secretary William Jones congratulates ASK Riga’s Janis Krumins for winning the 1959 European Cup title. Krumins was among the first superstars in the competition as the dominant center helped ASK to lift three straight European Cup trophies. Krumins was an unstoppable, 2.13-meter center, who polished his post moves throughout the years and developed a very effective hook shot. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	ASK Riga poses with head coach Aleksandar Gomelskiy (holding the trophy) and FIBA general secretary William Jones minutes before the 1960 European Cup final. Riga had won three European Cup titles in as many years. Dinamo Tbilisi was its opponent in the 1960 European Cup title two-way series. ASK won the first game 51-61 in Tbilisi and then downed Dinamo 69-62 in front of 17,000 fans in Riga behind 28 points from Janis Krumins to win its last European club title. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Head coach Aleksandar Gomelskiy marches with his ASK Riga team. ASK and Gomelskiy won three consecutive European Cup titles from 1958 to 1960, the first dynasty in competition history. Gomelskiy, the father of Soviet and Russian basketball, would soon join CSKA and become the biggest legend at that club. He would lift the European Cup title for the fourth time with CSKA in 1971. Gomelskiy also won seven EuroBaskets, two World Championships in 1967 and 1982, as well as an Olympic gold medal in 1988 with the Soviet Union national team. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Belgian champion Royal IV SC Anderlechtois became the first team to win a European Cup game defeated Luxembourg champion BBC Etzella 82-43 in the opening preliminary round of the new "European Cup of Club Champions" on February 22, 1958. Francois DePaun and Jean Crick scored 23 points apiece and Albert Nicodeme added 20 to chisel their names into the history books as victors in Europe's first-ever international club game. Royal IV went on to win the second game between them and advance to the quarterfinals, losing there to Real Madrid, which then forfeited its semifinal series against ASK Riga, the eventual champions. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	Bulgarian League champion Academic Sofia took Hungarian League powerhouse Honved Budapest in the 1958 European Cup semifinals. Academic won the first leg 87-89 in front of 2,000 fans in Budapest Sports Hall and then swept the series with a 76-64 in the second leg. As many as 10,000 fans watched the game, played in a wooden platform set in a football ground. This image belongs to the first leg, as an Academic player comes off the baseline and tries to find some help being close watched by the referee in the left corner. Notice that the basketball was way different than the ones used nowadays! PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz
	The late William Jones, FIBA's first general secretary for more than four decades, hands Maigonis Valdmanis of ASK Riga the European Cup trophy at the end of the 1960 title game. ASK had just won its third consecutive European Cup title, building the first dynasty in competition history. Valdmanis was one of the superstars of that team that also included Valdis Muiznieks, Teobalds Kalherts, Ivars Veritis, Olgerts Hehts, Ainars Gulbis, Leons Jankovskis and above all, center Janis Krumins, the most dominant European player in the fifties. Krumins was the first-ever European Cup superstar, the original legend in 50 Years of European Club basketball. PHOTO: Fundación Pedro Ferrandiz

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