Walter Tavares's reign as the EuroLeague Best Defender award winner will continue another year as the Real Madrid center was chosen to be the recipient of the trophy in a poll of Turkish Airlines EuroLeague head coaches. Tavares, 29, was a force in the middle for Los Blancos as he led the league with 1.8 blocked shots per game. His defensive impact stretched far beyond his blocks as Tavares's presence was a constant source of intimidation for opponents, which resulted in countless close-range shots that were altered, missed or simply passed up. In fact, opponents challenged by Tavares made just 34.4% of their shots, according to Synergy Sports. That number was the best on his team and 11th in the league. Moreover, his 4.8 defensive rebounds per game led the league and sealed possessions, often allowing Real to get going in transition. Because each of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague head coaches knows how difficult it is to plan to attack the paint against Real Madrid when Tavares is in the game, it was only natural that they would collectively choose as the 2020-21 EuroLeague Best Defender.

The Best Defender Trophy is one of several awards to honor the best players in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. The first of this season's honorees was announced Wednesday when Alexey Shved of Khimki Moscow Region was confirmed as the winner of this season's Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy. The identity of the EuroLeague Rising Star will be revealed on Friday and the All-EuroLeague teams will be announced next week. The EuroLeague MVP award will be revealed at the 2021 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four in Cologne, Germany. The Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy and the Gianluigi Porelli EuroLeague Executive of the Year are post-season awards.

Two former EuroLeague Best Defenders followed Tavares in the voting. Kyle Hines of AX Armani Exchange Milan and Bryant Dunston of Anadolu Efes Istanbul finished second and third in the voting, respectively. Among others receiving votes were another former EuroLeague Best Defender, Adam Hanga of FC Barcelona, as well as Nikita Kurbanov of CSKA Moscow, Pierria Henry of TD Systems Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, Thomas Walkup of Zalgiris Kaunas, Cory Higgins of Barcelona, DyShawn Pierre of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, Will Thomas of Zenit St Petersburg and Nikola Kalinic of Valencia Basket.

For the season, the 2.21-meter Tavares averaged 11.4 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.0 steals and 1.8 blocks for a performance index rating of 18.1. In addition to leading the league in blocks and defensive rebounds, Tavares ranked second in rebounding and fifth in PIR. He blocked multiple shots in 20 of his 36 appearances and tied his career-high with 5 against Olympiacos Piraeus in Round 15. His 63 blocked shots were more than half of his team’s total for the third season running, even though he accounted for less than 12 percent of the team’s total minutes played. Despite playing a career-high 26:01 minutes per game, Tavares fouled out only three times all season and was one of only three centers to average more than 1 steal per game. A native of the African archipelago Cape Verde,

Tavares picked up basketball late in his childhood, but showed enough talent and potential that Herbalife Gran Canaria brought him to its academy when he was just 17. After spending the 2011-12 season and the beginning of the next season loan with La Palma, Tavares made his Spanish League debut with Gran Canaria in January 2013. Tavares earned All-EuroCup First Team honors in the 2014-15 season after helping Gran Canaria reach the finals. He later spent two seasons in the NBA and the G-League before joining Real in November 2017. Tavares helped Real win the EuroLeague in their first season together and has also won two Spanish league championships and the 2019 Copa del Rey with Los Blancos.

Tavares becomes the third player to repeat as EuroLeague Best Defender and the fourth to win the award multiple times. The first was Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos Athens (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011). Dunston (2014 and 2015) won the award in consecutive seasons with Olympiacos in 2014 and 2015 and Hines was chosen Best Defender with CSKA Moscow in 2016 and 2018. In addition to those mentioned above, CSKA players Victor Khryapa and Andrei Kirilenko won the award in 2010 and 2012, respectively, Stephane Lasme was the 2013 winner with Panathinaikos and Adam Hanga took the trophy in 2017 with Baskonia.

Real's Tavares repeats as EuroLeague Best Defender

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For the second time in his career, Alexey Shved of Khimki Moscow Region has won the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy. Shved led all scorers with 19.8 points to add the Ford Trophy for the 2020-21 season to his award from 2017-18. The Ford Trophy is awarded annually to the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague player with the highest scoring average over a minimum number of games. It is the EuroLeague's only end-of-season award that is based solely on statistics. Shved's scoring average was half a point more than the runner-up, 2018-19 Ford Trophy winner Mike James of CSKA Moscow. Shved scored in double figures in all but one game for Khimki this season.

Although he missed Khimki's first four games, Shved needed no time to get going, scoring 32 points in an overtime home loss against Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv in his season debut. Shved went on to match his season high of 32 points twice more – against FC Bayern Munich in Round 22 and LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne in Round 32. Against Bayern, Shved made 15 free throws without a miss, which is the fifth-best free-throw shooting in competition history. Shved scored at least 20 points on 12 occasions. More than just a scorer, he also topped the regular season charts with 7.7 assists per game. Over the last four seasons, during which he has played 97 games, Shved leads the EuroLeague both in accumulated points (2,078) and scoring averaged (21.4 ppg.). Behind Shved in the scoring race this season were James (19.3 ppg.), Jordan Loyd (17.3 ppg.) of Crvena Zvezda, Vasilije Micic (16.4 ppg.) of Anadolu Efes Istanbul and Nikola Mirotic (16.0 ppg.) of FC Barcelona.

Shved averaged 21.8 points per game when he captured the Ford Trophy for the 2017-18 season. He raised his average in the 2018-19 campaign to 23.3 points, but took part in just 14 games, which left him ineligible for the award. Shved was second in scoring in the 2019-20 season with 21.4 points per game, behind only Shane Larkin (22.2 ppg.), when the competition came to a premature end due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A product of the CSKA Moscow youth system, Shved was a member of CSKA's EuroLeague-winning squad in 2008 and he helped the team get to the EuroLeague Championship Game in 2009 and 2012. After three seasons in the NBA with Minnesota, Philadelphia, Houston and New York, Shved joined Khimki in 2015 and has been the face of the franchise ever since. He was chosen as the 2016-17 7DAYS EuroCup MVP and earned All-EuroLeague honors the following season. Among his other major achievements are helping the Russian national team win respective bronze medals at EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania and the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Shved is the third multiple-winner of the Ford Trophy since it was first awarded in 2005. The other two are Igor Rakocevic, with Tau Ceramica Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2007 and 2009 and with Anadolu Efes Istanbul in 2011; and Keith Langford with Olimpia Milan in 2014 and UNICS Kazan in 2017. The other Ford Trophy winners are Nando De Colo of CSKA Moscow (2016); Taylor Rochestie of Nizhny Novgorod (2015); Bobby Brown (2013) and Bo McCalebb (2012), both of Montepaschi Siena; Linas Kleiza of Olympiacos Piraeus (2010); Marc Salyers of Chorale Roanne (2008); Drew Nicholas of Benetton Treviso (2006); and Charles Smith of Scavolini Pesaro (2005).

The trophy is named in memory of the late Alphonso Ford, who died of leukemia in September 2004 after a brilliant career in which he was the competition's leading scorer twice, in 2000-01 and 2001-02, both seasons with Olympiacos. He subsequently led Siena in scoring as it reached the 2003 Final Four. Ford owns the EuroLeague's all-time best scoring average with 22.2 points in 54 career games. Shved is fourth (16.8 ppg.) on that list, trailing Panos Liadelis (19.3 ppg.) and Arvydas Macijauskas (17.4 ppg.). The Ford Trophy is the first in a series of EuroLeague end-of-season honors. Other awards to be announced this week include the EuroLeague Best Defender and the EuroLeague Rising Star. The All-EuroLeague honorees will be announced later and the MVP award at this season's Final Four in Cologne, Germany. The Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy and the EuroLeague Club Executive of the Year are post-season awards.

Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy: Alexey Shved, Khimki

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Final Four Vlog: Tibor Pleiss, Anadolu Efes Istanbul

Eight of the top referees in Europe have been chosen to officiate the games at the 2021 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four in Cologne, Germany. The list is a mix of veterans and top young referees, five of whom boast at least 14 seasons in the EuroLeague and a combined 19 Final Four appearances. Three of them are still in their 30s, including two who have been assigned to their first Final Four.

The chosen referees are Matej Boltauzer, Mehdi Difallah, Juan Carlos Garcia Gonzalez, Olegs Latisevs, Uros Nikolic, Sasa Pukl, Sreten Radovic and Gytis Vilius.

"The commitment and sacrifices that all of our officials have made, in what has been an exceptional season dealing with the current pandemic, has helped us get to the end of the season and another Final Four, and we are grateful to all of our officials for their dedication," Richard Stokes, Euroleague Basketball’s Senior Director of Officiating, said.

"I want to congratulate this group for their selection for the Final Four in Cologne. A nomination to the Final Four is the pinnacle of achievement for our officials and reflects their season-long work as well as their performance through the playoffs, both individually and within their crews."

Latisevs is the most experienced of the eight; he will be making his ninth Final Four appearance and refereed the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game at each of the last three Final Fours. Both Boltauzer and Pukl will whistle games at their respective fifth Final Fours. Garcia Gonzalez, Nikolic and Vilius will each officiate at the Final Four for the first time.

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Final Four Vlog: Michael Eric, CSKA Moscow

The city of Cologne has seen its fair share of great basketball over the years. Saturn Cologne captured four German League championships in the 1980s. In March 2000, Koelnarena set a European basketball record when 20,000 fans packed the stands for a German league game. And in a few weeks, the same venue, now known as Lanxess Arena, will host the 2021 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four.

When it comes to the longest extended period of basketball greatness in the city, there is no question that it was the seven-season run RheinEnergie Cologne had as a force in German basketball and a club to keep an eye on across the continent. RheinEnergie helped launch the careers of several future EuroLeague stars with well-respected head coaches on the bench.

After Saturn was dissolved in the early 1990s, one of its former players, Stephan Baeck, stepped up to form a new team for his beloved Cologne. He secured the backing of RheinEnergie, the company that provides gas, water and electricity to Cologne. Thus, RheinEnergie Cologne was born with Baeck as the general manager. After he acquired Rhoendorfer TV's German League license, Baeck's next task was to woo the best coach in German basketball history, Svetislav Pesic.

"He convinced me and I took this totally new project... We didn't have anything."
Pesic is a legend in Germany after guiding the German national team to a gold medal at EuroBasket 1993. He also turned ALBA Berlin into a power and with it won the 1994-95 Korac Cup. At the time Baeck called, Pesic was coaching the Yugoslavian national team that would eventually win the gold medal at EuroBasket 2001. Baeck's pitch was successful and Pesic agreed to coach RheinEnergie for the 2001-02 season under the condition that he would keep his national team job.

"Stephan Baeck played for me on the national team and later in ALBA Berlin. He was born in Cologne and put together the new club," Pesic said. "He convinced me and I took on this totally new project. It was totally new, we didn't have anything. We were without players, all we had is a sponsor, RheinEnergie, and Baeck. And we started to form a new club."

Who would be the player Pesic would want to build his new team around? A trusted point guard was atop his list. Enter playmaker Sasa Obradovic, whom Pesic had coached to Korac Cup glory with ALBA and as well as on the Yugoslavian national team. The fact that Pesic would coach the team helped Obradovic make a quick decision.

"By bringing in Pesic, you had the best possible start as a club. The club brought him and he brought me because we already knew each other and had worked together for a while. It was a hard decision for them because I was coming off a big injury. I came in [for a trial] to see if things worked again for me," Obradovic said. "I was also testing myself to see if I would continue playing basketball. I had an Achilles' heel injury playing for the national team. After this, I recovered and played a part of the next season with Buducnost. That is when Pesic called me to join the team."

RheinEnergie was successful right away. Led by Obradovic, C.C. Harrison, Zoran Kukic and Stephan Arigbabu, and energized by the atmosphere at GEW Energy Dome, with room for 3,200 people, the club went all the way to the German League finals before losing to ALBA.

"In those years, ALBA was the best team in Germany, but we played a very good final, losing 3-1," Pesic recalled. "My son Marko was playing for ALBA and was the German League Finals MVP. He beat me! He beat his father! This is the story. After that, I had to go back to the Yugoslavian national team and signed a contract with FC Barcelona."

Once Pesic left to make Barcelona a EuroLeague champion, the team made its EuroCup (then ULEB Cup) debut in the competition's original campaign, 2002-03. RheinEnergie would play three consecutive EuroCup seasons and reached the eighthfinals as many times. Obradovic, Marcin Gortat, Geert Hammink, Johannes Strasser, Elvir Ovcina, Billy Edwards and Immanuel McElroy, among many others, helped the team in those three seasons. RheinEnergie also started collecting trophies by winning back-to-back German Cups

When Obradovic finished his playing career, he was offered the chance to stay with the team and became its head coach. The move paid rapid dividends.

"We won the German championship in my first year as head coach. Opening my coaching career with that success was an amazing start," Obradovic said. "I am happy for the guys who gave me the chance to coach the team, like president Herbert Zimmer."

RheinEnergie bested ALBA 1-3 in that finals series. McElroy was chosen as the German Finals MVP. The German League crown led to a spot in the 2006-07 EuroLeague. McElroy, Gortat and Aleksandar Nadjfeji were joined by Marcus Faison, Ronnie Burrell and Demond Mallet to strengthen the team. Despite early wins against Climamio Bologna and Prokom Trefl Sopot, RheinEnergie did not get past the regular season and was unable to continue its upward spiral.

Even before that season started, however, the EuroLeague's elite descended on Cologne for the preseason NBA Europe Live tour, in which the previous season's champion, CSKA Moscow, and runner-up, Maccabi Tel Aviv, played each other again before taking on NBA teams Phoenix and Philadelphia. Koelnarena, now Lanxess Arena, was again filled to capacity and celebrating basketball at its finest.

One of the many people celebrating with RheinEnergie was a teenage prospect at the time, Tibor Pleiss, whose family had moved to Cologne shortly after he was born. Pleiss, who will return for this year's Final Four with Anadolu Efes Istanbul, grew up in the city and considers it his hometown.

"I was not with the first-team roster in 2006 when the club won the German League title. I came one year later, but I was already practicing with the team. I started to be a part of the team in the 2006-07 season, when we won the national cup," Pleiss recalled. "Of course, I was in the gym when we won the 2006 championship and I was celebrating. It was a big day."

In the years since, Pleiss has gone on to become the German-born player with the most appearances in the EuroLeague. But his start came under Obradovic, who helped mold the young center and instill a work ethic that would make Pleiss a leader later in his career.

"They were really ambitious, but we had some financial crisis and that was really painful for the club," Pleiss recalled. "For me, it might have not been such a bad situation, because it helped me get more playing time. They allowed young players to be on the court more. It was kind of a sad situation, because we had been successful for some years, won the championship and several cup titles, but the crisis came and the club couldn't stay at the same level."

Nevertheless, the EuroLeague-quality roster proved to be a force domestically and it edged Artland Dragons 60-58 in the 2007 German Cup final.

"We won the German championship in my first year as head coach."
The club managed to stay afloat for the next season, though without the support of RheinEnergie, it rebranded as Cologne 99ers. The team returned to the EuroCup for the 2007-08 season. Led by McElroy, Nadjfeji and Milko Bjelica, it had a 5-5 record in the regular season and reached the Last 32 before being eliminated by Khimki Moscow Region. Despite the quick development of Pleiss, the club would not match the great success it had in the opening years.

The 99ers ceased basketball activities in 2009 due to financial problems. A new club, RheinStars Cologne, was founded in 2013, again with Baeck as general manager. That club is currently in the first regional league, Germany's fourth division.

Cologne's basketball legacy will add another chapter when the 2021 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Final Four comes to town at the end of May.

Rheinenergie, Cologne's last EuroLeague team

Anadolu Efes Istanbul has reached a new agreement with head coach Ergin Ataman to keep working together for two more years, until the end of the 2022-23 season, the club announced Thursday

Efes, Ataman stay together til 2023

Ataman, age 55, is in his third stint on the Efes bench and has led the club to a new golden era. In 2019, Ataman guided Efes to its first Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game just one year after the club had finished last in the competition, in what is considered one of the biggest turnaround's in basketball history at the elite level. He and Efes also won the club's first Turkish League title in 10 years that season. Over the last three seasons, Ataman has a 72-31 EuroLeague record (68.6%) with Efes.



<div style="display: grid; place-items: center;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tr" dir="ltr">Koç Ergin Ataman ile iki yıl daha birlikteyiz! Birlikte nice zaferlere! 🏆 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BenimYerimBuras%C4%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BenimYerimBurası</a> <a href="https://t.co/P6SEmDPqge">pic.twitter.com/P6SEmDPqge</a></p>&mdash; Anadolu Efes SK (@AnadoluEfesSK) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnadoluEfesSK/status/1390302211310161922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

Ataman had previously coached Efes from 1999 to 2001 and from 2008 and 2010. He guided the team to its first Final Four in 2000 and to the Turkish League title in 2009. Ataman also led Montepaschi Siena to the 2002 Saporta Cup crown and the 2003 EuroLeague Final Four. For five years, Ataman coached Galatasaray Odeabank Istanbul, with whom he won the 2016 7DAYS EuroCup crown as well as the Turkish League title in 2013. Ataman started his coaching career with Turk Telekom Ankara in 1996. He has also coached Fortitudo Bologna in Italy as well as Pinar Karsiyaka, Ulker and Besiktas in his native Turkey, winning the 2012 FIBA Euro Challenge and Turkish League titles with the latter. In addition, Ataman coached the Turkish national team from 2014 to 2016. He has been on the bench for 291 EuroLeague games this century, with a 144-147 record (49.5% wins).

Anadolu Efes Istanbul has reached a new agreement with head coach Ergin Ataman to keep working together for two more years, until the end of the 2022-23 season, the club announced Thursday.

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Greek center Sofoklis Schortsanitis enjoyed a storied Turkish Airlines EuroLeague career, during which he played for four clubs over 10 seasons. In this episode of The Crossover, Joe Arlauckas talks with Big Sofo about all of it, starting with his birth in Cameroon to life after retirement.

The big man did not dream of a basketball career as a boy. Schortsanitis's younger brother Alexandros was the first in the family to take up basketball and even that didn't motivate Sofoklis to pick up a ball until later.

05:30 – "When I started, it was literally a fluke," Schortsanitis said. "Over the years, you just develop a love for the game. I love how exciting it is and how the work you put in outside the court translates into success."

He began playing in the youth team in Kavala, Greece, and by the time he was 13, Schortsanitis was sent to play with the men's team. He soon joined the Greek junior national team and made his pro debut in the Greek league with Iraklis Thessaloniki when he was just 15 and a half years old.

8:40 "Two days before the game, they actually told me I was going to be in the squad and I was like, 'Okay, I’ll just stay in the corner and clap whenever we make a basket," Schortsanitis recalled. "And game day, the coach is like, 'It's you, you, Hatzivrettas, Diamantidis and Sofo.' I was like, 'What?!?!'"

What's more, in just his second game Schortsanitis had to guard the great Dino Radja and it did not go well, though it was also a learning opportunity about how much faith his coach and teammates had in him. From there, his career took off. Schortsanitis went abroad to play in Italy at the tender age of 18, but after one season decided to return home and signed with Olympiacos Piraeus, where he bumped heads with head coach Jonas Kazlauskas.

23:50 "One day I was late for practice and he made me run the stairs up and down. He's like: 'This is good for you. It's good for your legs and you can lose weight,'" Schortsanitis recalled. "When they started practicing, he told me, 'Yeah come down. We don't have enough players.' So I started dunking and having a great practice. And this is where my nightmare started. After that, he's like, 'Man, those stairs are good for you. You'll do it every day!'"

With his growing reputation and great size, Schortsanitis was dubbed "Baby Shaq" – after Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal – and the moniker stuck. Schortsanitis did not mind the nickname until the day he had to face the original Shaq.

30:45 "Josh Childress was messing with me," Schortsanitis said. "The minute I got the ball in the post, he's like: 'Yeah Sofo. Show him who's the baby now!' I'm like, 'Don't say that!' I was so nervous. And then I heard Shaq behind saying, 'Yeah. Show me.'"

It all ended well though as Shaq tracked Schortsanitis down in the parking lot and they chatted for half an hour or so with O'Neal sharing some important career advice.

Schortsanitis helped Olympiacos reach back-to-back EuroLeague Final Fours. Then he decided to try playing outside of Greece again and signed for Maccabi Tel Aviv. The end of that first season is still a tough pill for Schortsanitis to swallow as the team reached the EuroLeague championship game only to lose to Panathinaikos Athens.

45:20 "I was sure, 100%, we were going to get it," he said. "We had a great squad. We were strong at every position... Sometimes after you lose a game like that, especially after you win a game like that against Madrid [in the semifinals], you think man, what was the season all about? But you have to bounce back fast because you have to go back to Tel Aviv and win the [Israeli] championship."

The only remedy for losing a title is to win one, and three years later, Schortsanitis finally won the EuroLeague with Maccabi in Milan. And even then, it took a while to sink in.

1:02:35 "It really sunk in that we actually won when we got ready to leave and we had to take pictures with the trophy in our hands," Schortsanitis remembered. "And I was like, well, this is it. We were fighting for years for this."

Schortsanitis was back playing in Greece in the 2016-17 season when he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon. Though he had surgery and came back, he never regained his previous form and in December 2020 announced his retirement from playing. However, even though he was done playing basketball, some things never change.

1:14:30 "My first 15 years, my mother was telling me what to do, how to do it, when to do it, where to go," Schortsanitis laughed retelling the conversation he had earlier that day with his wife. "For 20 years playing ball, my coaches were telling me what to do, where to go. And now that I've retired, I realized that for the rest of my life, you are going to tell where to go, what to do... And she's like, 'You just realized that now?!?!'"

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as Toko Shengelia, Shane Larkin and Kyle Hines, coaching greats such as Ettore Messina, Pablo Laso and Zeljko Obradovic, and legends like Theo Papaloukas, Nikola Vujcic and Mike Batiste, among others. The first guests in Season 3 were FC Bayern Munich Coach Andrea Trinchieri, Zalgiris Kaunas star Marius Grigonis, Kostas Papanikolaou of Olympiacos Piraeus and CSKA Moscow assistant coach Darryl Middleton, Kevin Pangos of Zenit St Petersburg and Norris Cole of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne.

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Former champ Sofoklis Schortsanitis sits down with Joe Arlauckas

Big Sofo joins The Crossover

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