With three Euroleague Best Defender trophies and a second ranking in steals this season, Panathinaikos playmaker Dimitrios Diamantidis is renowned for defense. This season showed him to be an all-around threat, too, ranking third in assists and almost doubling his three-point shooting output. Most of all, Diamantidis is now considered the heart and soul of the Greens.

There may be no more important career-long bench player in basketball history than CSKA point guard Theodoros Papaloukas, who led all Euroleague passers with 5.3 assists per game this season, while also scoring at the highest rate of his career. Papaloukas arrives to the Final Four as the competition's all-time assists and steals leader, too.

One of the top two assists-makers in Euroleague history, Pablo Prigioni again directed Tau Ceramica to dizzying heights this season. Tau lost just one game out of 21 after opening day, and the whole time Prigioni was steady as a rock, making the most steals of any Euroleague player, 52, and dishing the second-most assists, 106.

The top scorer for the defending champs, Trajan Langdon of CSKA Moscow is among the Euroleague's most dangerous attackers and steadiest defenders. Langdon was also this season’s most dependable free-throw shooter, landing 93.6% of his attempts from the foul line. He was golden from long-distance, too, making the second-most three-point shots, 54, of all Euroleague players.

Already considered among the best shot-makers in the world, Juan Carlos Navarro of Winterthur FC Barcelona poured in more points than any Euroleague player this season, 369, while ranking second in scoring average and dishing a career-high 3 assists per game. Entering the prime of his career, Navarro now ranks third all-time in both points and three-pointers made.

With the Euroleague's best scoring average over a minimum number of games, 16.9 points, Igor Rakocevic of Tau Ceramica won the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy. His total of 62 three-pointers made were 10 more than all but one other player, and he was the most accurate, at 47.7%, of the competition's 10 most prolific long-distance threats.

Saving the best for last in his spectacular first season with Panathinaikos, Ramunas Siskauskas led the Greens to a playoffs sweep with 17.5 points per game to earn Euroleague MVP-of-the-month honors for April. His incredible shooting in the playoffs also made Siskauskas this season's surest long-distance threat due to his overall three-point accuracy of 50.8%.

After three seasons out of the Euroleague, Lazaros Papadopoulos of Dynamo Moscow returned to show that classic post skills never go out of style. While leading a rookie team to the playoffs, Papadopoulos dominated the paint, ranking among the best 10 players in scoring, rebounding and blocks, while being named Euroleague MVP of the month for January.

Long one of the competition's signature players, Luis Scola of Tau Ceramica capped another stellar season by becoming the first Euroleague Basketball scorer to break the 2,000-point barrier. Without making a single three-pointer, Scola tied for the second-most points scored, 337, and the third-best average, 16 points per game, while also being chosen the Euroleague MVP for December.

Among the world's most lethal inside-outside threats, Matjaz Smodis of CSKA Moscow stood out as a momentum-changing force for the defending champions this season. His ability to create mismatches that his teammates could exploit also helped Smodis reach his Euroleague career-high of 12.9 points per game and earn him the Euroleague MVP-of-the-month honor for February.

One of the most versatile centers in the world, Nikola Vujcic of Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv became the first player ranked at season’s end among the best 10 in average points, rebounds, assists and blocks. He also recorded his second triple-double - more than 10 points, rebounds and assists in the same game – a feat only he can claim in Euroleague play.