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Miro Bilan Earns BKT EuroCup Round 7 MVP Honors for Maxima Roma

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November 13, 2026

Maxima Roma center Miro Bilan produced the finest game of his six EuroCup seasons in Frankfurt, posting 17 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists in an 89-113 rout of Skyliners Frankfurt to earn BKT EuroCup Round 7 MVP honors.

The veteran center delivered 17 points, 13 rebounds, and 5 assists as Maxima dominated in Frankfurt

In the final game of Round 7, Maxima Roma center Miro Bilan produced the finest game of his six seasons in the EuroCup to earn honors as the MVP of Round 7. Bilan stood tall in his team’s 89-113 road rout of Skyliners Frankfurt with 17 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals for a performance index rating of 34, which was the highest of all players in Round 7.

The rebounds, assists and PIR were all career highs for Bilan, who made 7 of 11 shots from the field and 3 of 4 free throws. An All-EuroCup Second Team selection in the 2018-19 season, the 37-year-old center also made history by becoming the first Maxima player to earn a EuroCup weekly honor.

Dani Diez of Recoletas Salud San Pablo Burgos posted the round’s second-highest PIR with a career-best 30 in an 88-80 road loss to Le Mans Sarthe Basket. Diez scored a career-high 18 points on 2-of-4 two-point shooting, 3-of-5 on three-pointers and 5-of-6 free throws, and added a career-high 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 4 fouls drawn.

Urban Kroflic didn’t miss a shot from the field as he posted a PIR of 27 in just his sixth EuroCup game. The 20-year-old scored a personal-best 18 points as Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana cruised to a 71-88 win at Rostock Seawolves. Kroflic also tallied 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 4 fouls drawn without committing a turnover.

Rounding out the top performers were Terrell Carter of Tofas Bursa, Jerrick Harding of Turk Telekom Ankara and Judah Mintz of Skyliners. Carter posted a PIR of 26 in Tofas’s 86-96 triumph at Dolomiti Energia Trento with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Harding amassed a PIR of 25 in Turk Telekom’s 81-89 win at U-BT Cluj-Napoca. The guard poured in 24 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 6 fouls drawn. Mintz scored 23 points and drew 10 fouls in his team’s loss to Maxima.

Individual highs: Chase Audige of Burgos, 26 points

Chase Audige of Burgos led all scorers in Round 7 with 26 points. PAOK Thessaloniki’s Cedi Osman, who is sidelined after knee surgery, remains the competition’s top scorer at 22.2 points per game.

The magic number for rebounds in Round 7 was 13, as both Miro Bilan and Trento’s Isaiah Bigelow collected that number of boards. Aris Thessaloniki’s Jeremiah Robinson-Earl tops the season charts at 8.6 per game and Bigelow is 10th at 6.6.

Turk Telekom’s Dogus Ozdemiroglu was the round’s top playmaker with 11 assists. PAOK’s Nick Calathes leads the EuroCup at 7.0 assists per game.

Hapoel Midtown Jerusalem’s Jaleen Smith came up with 5 steals, more than any other player in Round 7. Ozdemiroglu, last season’s steals leader, sits atop the standings again at 3.0 per game.

Aris’s Kostas Antetokounmpo blocked 3 shots to lead the way on defense at the rim. Skyliners Frankfurt’s Race Thompson is the competition’s top shot-blocker at 1.8 per game.

Seven players recorded double-doubles in Round 7. In addition to Bilan, Diez and Carter, they were Ozdemiroglu (11 points, 11 assists), Bigelow (20 points, 13 rebounds), U-BT Cluj-Napoca’s Uros Plavsic (15 points, 10 rebounds) and Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse’s Trey Woodbury (15 points, 10 rebounds).

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Jonas Valanciunas Grabs Zalgiris Record 20 Rebounds to Earn EuroLeague Round 11 MVP

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November 14, 2026

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Jonas Valanciunas turned Milan into his own rebounding clinic. A Zalgiris Kaunas club record under the basket, a career best efficiency night and a road win made the Lithuanian center the clear choice for EuroLeague Round 11 MVP.

Jonas Valanciunas owned the glass in Milan, and Zalgiris Kaunas’s record book will never look the same. The Lithuanian center grabbed a club-record 20 rebounds, recorded the fourth-fastest double-double in modern EuroLeague history and led Zalgiris to an 83-86 win at Armani Olimpia Milan. His career-high PIR of 36 was the best of the round and earned him MVP of the Round honors for Round 11.

Valanciunas matched his career high with 17 points on 5-of-9 two-pointers and 7-of-10 free throws, and added 2 assists, 2 steals, a block and 6 fouls drawn to his 20 rebounds. That rebounding total is the most by any EuroLeague player in a game this season and the most since Nikola Milutinov also grabbed 20 on January 18, 2024. His game-high +23 plus-minus summed up his impact.

A career night from Talen Horton-Tucker wasn’t enough for Fenerbahce Tarfin Istanbul, which fell 111-109 in overtime at Paris Basketball. Horton-Tucker matched his career-best PIR of 33 and poured in a career-high 32 points on 12-of-14 two-pointers, 1-of-5 three-pointers and 5-of-7 free throws. He also grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds for his first EuroLeague double-double, and added 2 assists and 6 fouls drawn.

Tremont Waters of LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne was third with a PIR of 30 in a 91-95 home loss to Besiktas Istanbul. Waters scored 26 points on 5-of-6 two-pointers and 3-of-7 threes while going a perfect 7-of-7 from the line. He also made 5 steals, handed out 3 assists, grabbed a rebound and drew 7 fouls.

Rounding out the top performers were Anadolu Efes Istanbul’s Jordan Loyd and Olympiacos Piraeus’s Evan Fournier, who each posted a PIR of 28. A second-half explosion from Loyd powered Efes to a 103-91 home win over Virtus Bologna. He scored 22 points, 17 of them after halftime, going 2-of-2 inside the arc and a career-high 6-of-7 from three-point range, and added 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 3 fouls drawn without a turnover.

Fournier matched his season high with 28 points as Olympiacos routed Dubai Basketball 101-72. The Frenchman shot 4-of-6 on two-pointers, 5-of-7 on three-pointers and 5-of-6 from the line, and added 2 rebounds, 5 assists, a steal and 2 fouls drawn. His +28 was the joint-best plus-minus of the round.

Individual highs: Jonas Valanciunas, Zalgiris, 20 rebounds

Horton-Tucker led all scorers in Round 11 with 32 points. Nadir Hifi of Paris remains the league’s top scorer at 20.8 points per game.

Valanciunas’s 20 rebounds put him in rare company and lifted him to the top of the season rebounding charts at 9.5 per game.

Trent Frazier of Virtus and TJ Shorts of Valencia Basket each dished out 10 assists, the most in Round 11. Shorts and Carlik Jones of Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade share the season lead at 6.0 assists per game.

Waters’s 5 steals were the most by any player this round. Partizan’s Luca Vildoza leads the steals chart at 1.9 per game.

Fenerbahce’s Marcus Bingham swatted a round-best 5 shots. Virtus center Aliou Diarra leads the league at 1.9 blocks per game.

There were four double-doubles in Round 11: Valanciunas (17 points, 20 rebounds), Horton-Tucker (32 points, 10 rebounds), Shorts (14 points, 10 assists), and Efes center Bruno Fernando (15 points, 10 rebounds), who needed just one half to collect those numbers.