2016 Euroleague Final Four

On May 11, 2015, Euroleague Basketball announced that the 2016 Final Four would be played at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, in Berlin, Germany. With a seating capacity of 14,500 people for basketball games, it is home to the Alba Berlin basketball team, and is used for ice hockey, basketball, and handball games, as well as concerts. The area surrounding the arena is filled with various entertainment venues, including a cinema, a casino, a hotel, and various bars and restaurants. The arena previously hosted the 2009 Euroleague Final Four. The arena was one of the most prominent elements of the Mediaspree urban redevelopment project, and it quickly gained emblematic status in the debates surrounding the project's impact.

The LED construction grid on the facade of the arena was equipped with more than 300,000 LED clusters on a 12 m (39 ft) high, and approximately 120 m (390 ft) wide section of the semicircular 105° glass facade, with a total area of more than 1,440 m² (15,500 sq ft). Light pixels, consisting of two groups of 19 LEDs (colour palette: 16.7 million RGB colours), were attached to the vertical bracing of the facade. The vertical distances were 0.20 m (7.9 in), and the horizontal distances between the axes were 0.90 m (2 ft 11 in).

Berlin	Berlin 2016 Euroleague Final Four (Europe)
Mercedes-Benz Arena
Capacity: 14,500

The Final was the second Final Four meeting between the two teams. In the 2015 Euroleague Final Four, CSKA Moscow beat Fenerbahçe 86–80, in the third-place game.^[2] It was the first European final for Fenerbahçe, while CSKA played in its 13th championship game.

In the Final, it seemed early on that CSKA was destined to win its seventh EuroLeague title. After a strong first half, the Russian side led 30–50 at halftime, and had a lead of as many as 21 points in the third quarter. However, in the fourth quarter, Fenerbahçe surged back, and CSKA player, Victor Khryapa, had to score a tip-in with 1.9 seconds remaining on the game clock, to tie the game.^[3] It was the third Final in EuroLeague history that went to overtime. In overtime, CSKA, led by Nando De Colo, took the lead, and finally claimed its seventh EuroLeague title, and its first one in eight years.^[3]

Fenerbahçe v CSKA Moscow

15 May 2016	Fenerbahçe	96–1010(OT)	CSKA Moscow	Berlin, Germany
20:00 (CEST)	Scoring by quarter: 20–22, 10–28, 23–19, 30–14, Overtime: 13–18
	Pts: Dixon 17 Rebs: Udoh 11 Asts: Dixon 4 PIR: Udoh 24	Boxscore	Pts: De Colo 22 Rebs: Khryapa, Teodosić 5 Asts: De Colo, Teodosić 7 PIR: Teodosić 29	Arena: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 12,250 Referees: Luigi Lamonica (ITA), Robert Lottermoser (GER), Damir Javor (SLO)

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 16 Kostas Sloukas 10 2 0 SG 13 Bogdan Bogdanović 6 3 3 SF 33 Nikola Kalinić 3 3 2 PF 70 Luigi Datome 16 5 3 PF 24 Jan Veselý 7 5 1 Reserves: PG 3 Ricky Hickman 5 0 0 PF 5 Barış Hersek DNP C 8 Ekpe Udoh 16 11 3 SG 10 Melih Mahmutoğlu 0 0 0 PF 12 Pero Antić 16 1 0 PG 23 Berk Uğurlu DNP PG 35 Bobby Dixon 17 4 1 Head coach: Željko Obradović

Fenerbahçe CSKA Moscow 0 Fenerbahçe Statistics[4] CSKA 18/40 (45%) 2-pt field goals 22/36 (61.1%) 11/30 (36.7%) 3-pt field goals 9/25 (36%) 27/39 (69.2%) Free throws 30/32 (93.8%) 16 Offensive rebounds 6 22 Defensive rebounds 26 38 Total rebounds 32 16 Assists 22 13 Turnovers 13 6 Steals 8 4 Blocks 5 28 Fouls 33

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 1 Nando de Colo 22 2 7 SG 22 Cory Higgins 12 1 3 SF 41 Nikita Kurbanov 4 3 0 PF 20 Andrey Vorontsevich 11 3 0 C 42 Kyle Hines 15 4 2 Reserves: SG 3 Dmitry Kulagin 0 0 0 PG 4 Miloš Teodosić 19 5 7 SG 7 Vitaly Fridzon 0 0 0 PF 8 Demetris Nichols 0 1 0 PG 9 Aaron Jackson 8 1 1 C 12 Pavel Korobkov 0 2 1 PF 31 Victor Khryapa 10 5 1 Head coach: Dimitrios Itoudis

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