# 2006–07 Euroleague

The 2006–07 Euroleague was the 7th season of the professional basketball competition for elite clubs throughout Europe, organised by Euroleague Basketball Company, and it was the 50th season of the premier competition for European men's clubs overall. The season featured 24 competing teams from 13 countries.
The competition began on October 24, 2006, at the Olympic Pavilion in Badalona, Spain, with Panathinaikos winning 82-79 against DKV Joventut. The final of the competition was held on May 6, 2007, in the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece, the home court of Panathinaikos, with Panathinaikos defeating the defending champions, CSKA Moscow, by a score of 93-91.

## Teams

As announced on the official Euroleague site.
Key to colors :
* Champion
* Runner-up
* Third place
* Fourth place
* Eliminated in Quarterfinals
* Eliminated in Last 16
* Eliminated in the regular season
| Team | Location | Arena |
| Aris TT Bank | Thessaloniki, Greece | Alexandreio Melathron |
| Benetton Treviso | Treviso, Italy | Palaverde |
| Cibona VIP | Zagreb, Croatia | Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall |
| Climamio Bologna | Bologna, Italy | Land Rover Arena |
| CSKA Moscow | Moscow, Russia | CSKA Universal Sports Hall |
| DKV Joventut | Badalona, Spain | Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona |
| Dynamo Moscow | Moscow, Russia | Krylatskoe Sport Palace |
| Efes Pilsen | Istanbul, Turkey | Abdi İpekçi Arena |
| Eldo Napoli | Naples, Italy | PalaBarbuto |
| Fenerbahçe Ülker | Istanbul, Turkey | Abdi İpekçi Arena |
| Le Mans Sarthe | Le Mans, France | Antarès |
| Lottomatica Roma | Rome, Italy | PalaLottomatica |
| Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv, Israel | Nokia (Yad Eliyahu) Arena |
| Olympiacos | Piraeus, Greece | Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| Panathinaikos | Athens, Greece | Olympic Indoor Hall |
| Partizan | Belgrade, Serbia | Pionir Hall |
| Pau-Orthez | Pau, France | Palais des Sports de Pau |
| Prokom Trefl Sopot | Sopot, Poland | Olivia Sports Hall, Gdańsk |
| RheinEnergie Köln | Köln, Germany | Philips Halle |
| Tau Cerámica | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain | Fernando Buesa Arena |
| Unicaja | Málaga, Spain | José María Martín Carpena Arena |
| Union Olimpija | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Dvorana Tivoli |
| Winterthur FC Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | Palau Blaugrana |
| Žalgiris | Kaunas, Lithuania | Kaunas Sports Hall |

## Regular season

The first phase was a regular season, in which the competing teams were drawn into three groups, each containing eight teams. Each team played every other team in its group at home and away, resulting in 14 games for each team in the first stage. The top 5 teams in each group and the best sixth-placed team advanced to the next round. The complete list of tiebreakers was provided in the lead-in to the Regular Season results.
If one or more clubs were level on won-lost record, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
* Head-to-head record in matches between the tied clubs
* Overall point difference in games between the tied clubs
* Overall point difference in all group matches (first tiebreaker if tied clubs were not in the same group)
* Points scored in all group matches
* Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each group match
Key to colors :
* Top five places in each group, plus highest-ranked sixth-place team, advanced to Top 16
| Group A Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Regular Season Group A Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Tau Cerámica 1412211651025+140 2. Dynamo Moscow 1410411001032+68 3. Olympiacos 1410411651112+53 4. Efes Pilsen 148610811031+50 5. Prokom Trefl Sopot 145910211063-42 6. Climamio Bologna 145911151176-61 7. Le Mans Sarthe 144109851041-56 8. RheinEnergie Köln 1421210321184-152 | Group B Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Regular Season Group B Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Panathinaikos 1411311281036+92 2. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 148612301177+53 3. DKV Joventut 147711121049+63 4. Unicaja 147710011085-84 5. Lottomatica Roma 146810271044-17 6. Partizan 146811001093+7 7. Cibona VIP 146811131141-28 8. Union Olimpija 145910381124-86 |

### Group C

| | Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
| 1. | CSKA Moscow | 14 | 13 | 1 | 1079 | 912 | +167 |
| 2. | Winterthur FC Barcelona | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1093 | 1032 | +61 |
| 3. | Benetton Treviso | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1021 | 989 | +32 |
| 4. | Pau-Orthez | 14 | 7 | 7 | 1059 | 1070 | -11 |
| 5. | Aris TT Bank | 14 | 6 | 8 | 971 | 1013 | -42 |
| 6. | Eldo Napoli | 14 | 6 | 8 | 1032 | 1093 | -61 |
| 7. | Fenerbahçe Ülker | 14 | 5 | 9 | 1044 | 1088 | -44 |
| 8. | Žalgiris | 14 | 2 | 12 | 1062 | 1164 | -102 |

## Top 16

The surviving teams were divided into four groups of four teams each, and again a round robin system was adopted, resulting in 6 games each, with the two top teams advancing to the quarterfinals. Tiebreakers were identical to those used in the Regular Season.
The draw was held February 5, at 13:00 CET (1200 UTC) in Barcelona, in accordance with Euroleague rules.
The teams were placed into four pools, as follows:
Level 1: The three group winners, plus the top-ranked second-place team
* CSKA Moscow, Tau Cerámica, Panathinaikos, Dynamo Moscow
Level 2: The remaining second-place teams, plus the top two third-place teams
* Winterthur FC Barcelona, Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv, Olympiacos, Benetton Treviso
Level 3: The remaining third-place team, plus the three fourth-place teams
* DKV Joventut, Efes Pilsen, Pau-Orthez, Unicaja
Level 4: The fifth-place teams, plus the top ranked sixth-place team
* Lottomatica Roma, Aris TT Bank, Prokom Trefl Sopot, Partizan
Each Top 16 group included one team from each pool. The draw was conducted under the following restrictions:
* No more than two teams from the same Regular Season group could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
* No more than two teams from the same country could be placed in the same Top 16 group.
* If there is a conflict between these two restrictions, (1) would receive priority.
Another draw was held to determine the order of fixtures. In the case of two teams from the same city in the Top 16 (CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Moscow, Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, FC Barcelona and Joventut Badalona) they were scheduled so that every week only one team would be at home.
Key to colors :
* Top two places in each group advanced to quarterfinals
| Group D Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group D Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Tau Cerámica 660541433+108 2. Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv 642463478−15 3. Lottomatica Roma 615416468−52 4. Pau-Orthez 615470511−41 | Group E Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group E Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. CSKA Moscow 660475376+99 2. Olympiacos 633451450+1 3. Partizan 624432474−42 4. DKV Joventut 615407465−58 |
| Group F Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group F Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Panathinaikos 651501428+73 2. Winterthur FC Barcelona 642498455+43 3. Efes Pilsen 624416458−42 4. Prokom Trefl Sopot 615404478−74 | Group G Main article: Euroleague 2006–07 Top 16 Group G Team Pld W L PF PA Diff 1. Unicaja 642448442+6 2. Dynamo Moscow 642428435−7 3. Benetton Treviso 633439428+11 4. Aris TT Bank 615451461−10 *Unicaja won the group over Dynamo Moscow. The teams split their regular-season matches, but Unicaja scored 5 more points head-to-head. |

## Quarterfinals

Each quarterfinal was a best-of-three series between a first-place team in the Top 16 and a second-place team from a different group, with the first-place team receiving home advantage. Quarterfinals were played on April 3 and 5, 2007, with third games to be played April 12 if necessary.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg | 3rd leg |
| Tau Cerámica | 2–0 | Olympiacos | 84–59 | 95–89 | |
| CSKA Moscow | 2–1 | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 80–58 | 56–68 | 92-71 |
| Panathinaikos | 2–0 | Dynamo Moscow | 80–58 | 73–65 | |
| Unicaja | 2–1 | Winterthur FC Barcelona | 91–75 | 58–80 | 67-64 |

## Final four
### Semifinals

May 4, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Unicaja | 50–62 | CSKA Moscow |
| Panathinaikos | 67–53 | Tau Cerámica |

### 3rd place game

May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Unicaja | 76–74 | Tau Cerámica |

### Final

May 6, Olympic Indoor Hall, Athens
| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| Panathinaikos | 93–91 | CSKA Moscow |
* 2006–07 Euroleague Champions
* Panathinaikos 4th Title

### Final standings

* Team
* Panathinaikos
* CSKA Moscow
* Unicaja
* Tau Cerámica

### Final Four 2007 MVP

Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)

## Individual statistics
### Rating

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | PIR |
| 1. | Nikola Vujčić | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 22 | 478 | 21.73 |
| 2. | Lazaros Papadopoulos | Dynamo Moscow | 17 | 345 | 20.29 |
| 3. | Eric Campbell | Le Mans Sarthe | 14 | 266 | 19.00 |

### Points

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | PPG |
| 1. | Juan Carlos Navarro (Top Scorer) | Winterthur FC Barcelona | 22 | 369 | 16.77 |
| 2. | Igor Rakočević (Alphonso Ford Trophy) | Tau Cerámica | 22 | 357 | 16.23 |
| 3. | David Blu | Climamio Bologna | 14 | 224 | 16.00 |

### Rebounds

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | RPG |
| 1. | Tanoka Beard | Žalgiris | 14 | 138 | 9.86 |
| 2. | James Thomas | Climamio Bologna | 13 | 128 | 9.85 |
| 3. | Brent Wright | Cibona VIP | 14 | 112 | 8.00 |

### Assists

| Rank | Name | Team | Games | Rating | APG |
| 1. | Theo Papaloukas | CSKA Moscow | 25 | 135 | 5.40 |
| 2. | Pablo Prigioni | Tau Cerámica | 23 | 108 | 4.70 |
| 3. | Nikos Zisis | Benetton Treviso | 20 | 86 | 4.30 |

### Other stats

| Category | Name | Team | Games | Stat |
| Steals per game | Ricky Rubio | DKV Joventut | 16 | 3.19 |
| Blocks per game | Marcus Haislip | Efes Pilsen | 20 | 1.75 |
| Turnovers per game | Brent Wright | Cibona VIP | 14 | 3.14 |
| Fouls drawn per game | Lazaros Papadopoulos | Dynamo Moscow | 17 | 6.06 |
| Minutes per game | Davor Kus | Cibona VIP | 14 | 34:28 |
| 2FG% | Ioannis Bourousis | Olympiacos | 19 | 0.764 |
| 3FG% | David Blu | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 14 | 0.533 |
| FT% | Trajan Langdon | CSKA Moscow | 25 | 0.924 |

### Game highs

| Category | Name | Team | Stat |
| Rating | Nikola Vujčić | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 46 |
| Points | Nikola Vujčić | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 33 |
| Points | Marcus Haislip | Efes Pilsen | 33 |
| Rebounds | Antonis Fotsis | Dynamo Moscow | 24 |
| Assists | Theo Papaloukas | CSKA Moscow | 12 |
| Steals | Stefano Mancinelli | Climamio Bologna | 10 |
| Blocks | Marcus Haislip | Efes Pilsen | 6 |
| Turnovers | 4 occasions | 4 occasions | 8 |
| Fouls Drawn | Kosta Perović | Partizan | 12 |
| Fouls Drawn | Brent Wright | Cibona VIP | 12 |

## Awards
### Euroleague 2006–07 MVP

* Theo Papaloukas, ( CSKA Moscow )

### Euroleague 2006–07 Final Four MVP

* Dimitris Diamantidis, ( Panathinaikos )

### Euroleague 2006–07 Finals Top Scorer

* Theo Papaloukas, ( CSKA Moscow )

### All-Euroleague Team 2006–07

| Position | All-Euroleague First Team | Club Team | All-Euroleague Second Team | Club Team |
| PG | Theo Papaloukas * Dimitris Diamantidis* | CSKA Moscow Panathinaikos | Pablo Prigioni | Tau Cerámica |
| SG/SF | Juan Carlos Navarro | Winterthur FC Barcelona | Igor Rakočević | Tau Cerámica |
| SG/SF | Trajan Langdon | CSKA Moscow | Ramūnas Šiškauskas | Panathinaikos |
| PF/C | Luis Scola | Tau Cerámica | Matjaž Smodiš | CSKA Moscow |
| PF/C | Nikola Vujčić | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | Lazaros Papadopoulos | Dynamo Moscow |
*A tie resulted in the voting for the best point guard of the season, between Dimitris Diamantidis and Theo Papaloukas. Consequently, the 2006–07 All-Euroleague First Team included six players.

### Rising Star

* Rudy Fernández ( DKV Joventut )

### Best Defender

* Dimitris Diamantidis ( Panathinaikos )

### Top Scorer (Alphonso Ford Trophy)

* Igor Rakočević ( Tau Ceramica )

### Top Scorer (Points Per Game leader)

* Juan Carlos Navarro ( FC Barcelona )

### Coach of the Year (Alexander Gomelsky Award)

* Željko Obradović ( Panathinaikos )

### Club Executive of the Year

* Juan Manuel Rodríguez ( Unicaja )

#### Regular season

| Game | Player | Team | Rating |
| 1 | Carlos Cabezas | Unicaja | 41 |
| 2 | Eric Campbell | Le Mans Sarthe | 32 |
| 3 | Juan Carlos Navarro | Winterthur FC Barcelona | 35 |
| 4 | Ronnie Burrell | RheinEnergie Köln | 36 |
| 5 | Teemu Rannikko | Union Olimpija | 33 |
| 6 | Nikola Vujčić | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 46 |
| 7 | Brent Wright | Cibona VIP | 35 |
| 8 | Lazaros Papadopoulos | Dynamo Moscow | 38 |
| 9 | Marcus Haislip | Efes Pilsen | 41 |
| 10 | Nikola Vujčić (2) | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 40 |
| 11 | Tanoka Beard | Žalgiris | 31 |
| 12 | Nikola Vujčić (3) | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 34 |
| 12 | James Thomas | Climamio Bologna | 34 |
| 13 | Terrell Lyday | Benetton Treviso | 40 |
| 14 | Vassil Evtimov | Climamio Bologna | 38 |

#### Top 16

| Game | Player | Team | PIR |
| 1 | Scoonie Penn | Olympiacos | 35 |
| 1 | Marcus Goree | Benetton Treviso | 35 |
| 2 | Jamie Arnold | Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv | 29 |
| 3 | Savvas Iliadis | Aris TT Bank | 30 |
| 4 | Antonis Fotsis | Dynamo Moscow | 38 |
| 5 | Michael Wright | Pau-Orthez | 31 |
| 6 | Antonis Fotsis (2) | Dynamo Moscow | 39 |

#### Playoffs

| Game | Player | Team | PIR |
| 1-2 | Juan Carlos Navarro (2) | Winterthur FC Barcelona | 23 |
| 3 | Theo Papaloukas | CSKA Moscow | 27 |

### MVP of the Month

| Month | Player | Team |
| November 2006 | Mike Batiste | Panathinaikos |
| December 2006 | Luis Scola | Tau Ceramica |
| January 2007 | Lazaros Papadopoulos | Dynamo Moscow |
| February 2007 | Matjaž Smodiš | CSKA Moscow |
| March 2007 | Daniel Santiago | Unicaja |
| April 2007 | Ramūnas Šiškauskas | Panathinaikos |

## References and notes

* ↑ "Euroleague Basketball Top 16 Draw procedures". Euroleague. 2007-01-30. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
* ↑ "All-Euroleague team, MVP announced". 3 October 2024.
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