You can simply welcome Unicaja Malaga back into the ranks of European winners. One of the clubs that symbolized the mid-2000s, then dropped in performance, but still won the EuroCup seven years ago, takes home the 2023-2024 Basketball Champions League. Beaten Lenovo Tenerife 80-75 in the final with Kendrick Perry at 17 points e Nihad Dedovic (at Virtus Roma between 2010 and 2012, at the time known as Djedovic for phonetic reasons) with 14. On the other hand, the 18 of Kyle Guy and the 16 of the former Cantù Giorgi Shermadinias well as the 14 of the eternal Marcelinho Huertasalso a past in Fortitudo Bologna 15 years ago.
For Unicaja a path which, beyond a final that almost got out of hand and was held up for a very short time, is remarkable: 4-2 in the first round and then never again defeated, with 6-0 in the Last 16 and the 2-0 in the quarterfinals against Promitheas before dominating the Final Four. In the semi-final, in particular, they defeated UCAM Murcia 80-74 (then the all-Spanish podium was completed following the victory in the final for 3rd place against the Greeks of Peristeri).
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This is the third triumph at continental level for Malaga, after the aforementioned EuroCup and also after the Cup which, together with the Saporta, gave rise to what is currently the second ECA competition: the Korac. It was the 2000-2001 season. Tenerife, on the other hand, continues to have an impressive track record: it has never fallen below the quarter-finals in the Champions League except on one occasion, in the 2017-2018 season.
This is the roster of the champion Unicaja: Dylan Osetkowski, Tyler Kalinoski, Kameron Taylor, Jonathan Barreiro, Alberto Diaz, Tyson Carter, Nihad Dedovic, Augusto Lima, Will Thomas, David Kravish, Kendrick Perry, Yankuba Sima, Guillermo Del Pino, Melvin Ejim. Of these, Kalinoski (Brescia), Dedovic (Rome), Thomas (Avellino), Sima (Venice), Ejim (Rome, Venice) have passed through Italy.
