In a battle of Turkish Airlines Euroleague giants, Panathinaikos Athens took a critical step towards to the Top 16 by downing FC Barcelona Lassa 93-86 in the Greek capital on Friday. Panathinaikos improved to 4-4 in Group C and broke its nine-game losing streak against already-qualified Barcelona, which dropped to 6-2. Miroslav Raduljica led the winners with a Euroleague career-high 25 points on 8-of-9 two-point shooting and 9-of-9 free throws. Dimitris Diamantidis had a season-high 20 points, James Gist added 10 while Nick Calathes dished 10 assists for Panathinaikos. Alex Abrines led Barcelona with a career-high 21 points. Stratos Perperoglou added 13 while Ante Tomic had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the guests.
Score in each period: 21-22, 45-35, 66-57, 93-86
| Time | Pts | 2FG | 3FG | FT | Rebounds | As | St | TO | Blocks | Fouls | |||||
| O | D | T | Fv | Ag | Rv | Cm | |||||||||
| Aleksandar Pavlovic | 25:34 | 7 | 1/7 | 1/1 | 2/3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Vladimir Jankovic | 10:48 | 4 | 2/2 | 0/0 | 0/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Antonis Fotsis | 17:12 | 5 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Miroslav Raduljica | 26:23 | 25 | 8/9 | 0/0 | 9/9 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Nikos Pappas | 6:18 | 4 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 2/2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| James Feldeine | 25:37 | 7 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 2/2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Dimitris Diamantidis | 18:34 | 20 | 1/2 | 2/4 | 12/14 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| James Gist | 22:15 | 10 | 4/4 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Nick Calathes | 34:33 | 9 | 2/3 | 1/2 | 2/4 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| Ognjen Kuzmic | 12:26 | 2 | 1/7 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 199:40 | 93 | 22/39 | 6/12 | 31/38 | 5 | 27 | 32 | 22 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 28 |
| Average | 56.4% | 50.0% | 81.6% | ||||||||||||
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