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Laboral Kutxa Vitoria finished its 2013-14 Turkish Airlines Euroleague season in style by downing FC Barcelona 86-97 on the road. Andres Nocioni paced the winners with 37 points - a Euroleague career high, the most points scored by any player in the league this season and a new record for a visiting player at Palau Blaugrana. Fernando San Emeterio added 18 while Tibor Pleiss had 12 for Laboral. Juan Carlos Navarro led Barcelona with 25 points -- including the 500th three-pointer of his illustrious career. Bostjan Nachbar added 18 points, Marcelinho Huertas scored 15 and Ante Tomic 11 for the hosts.
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Laboral Kutxa Vitoria rolled to its largest win of the season by routing Anadolu Efes Istanbul 79-105 on Thursday night at Abdi Ipekci Arena. Tibor Pleiss scored 20 to lead a Vitoria attack that saw all but one player score a basket for Coach Sergio Scariolo. The win lifted Laboral into seventh place in Group E with a 3-9 record, while Efes dropped to bottom of the table at 2-10. Fernando San Emeterio added 16 points for the winners and Fabien Causeur and Andres Nocioni each scored 13. Kerem Gonlum led five Efes scorers in double figures with 13 points. Zoran Planinic scored 12, Dusko Savanovic and Deniz Kilicli netted 11 each and Jamon Gordon tallied 10 points and 9 assists in defeat.
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Olympiacos Piraeus snapped a four-game losing streak and shot back to the heart of the playoff race with a convincing 89-59 victory over Laboral Kutxa Vitoria on Friday at Peace and Friendship Stadium. The Reds used a 14-0 first-quarter run to take control for good, boosted the margin to 18 at halftime and led by as many as 35 in the fourth. With the victory Olympiacos improved to 5-6 and joined a tie for fourth place in Group E. The loss mathematically eliminated Laboral from playoff contention. Olympiacos made 10 of 18 three-pointers (55.6%) and outrebounded the visitors 39-21.
Matt Lojeski led five Olympiacos scorers in double figures with 16 points. Vassilis Spanoulis netted 14, young Ioannis Papapetrou shot 3 for 3 from downtown for 13 points, Giorgi Shermadini added 11, Cedric Simmons 10 and Vangelos Mantzaris displayed a fine all-around performance with 5 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists. Leo Mainoldi made 4 of 7 three-pointers for 12 points to lead Vitoria and Andres Nocioni and Tibor Pleiss scored 10 each in defeat. Make sure you visit www.euroleague.livebasketball.tv to access live games with much more videos and do not forget to check on +Slap Dog Hoops for all the scores, recaps and highlights in +EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL.
EA7 Emporio Armani Milan escaped from Vitoria with a huge 65-83 victory over Laboral Kutxa Vitoria to stay at the second place in Group E with 7-3 record. Curtis Jerrells paced the winners by scoring 17 points, Samardo Samuels bagged 15, Alessandro Gentile had 13 and Keith Langford 12, while Tibor Pleiss collected 30 points, 13 rebounds and an index rating of 43 for the home team.
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Look where everyone's favorite crackhead has ended up! After being all but completely shunned by the NBA due to his much publicized personal problems, +Lamar Odom seems to have been given a second chance--this time with Spanish Club Laboral Kuxta Vitoria in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague. Let's all hope that he makes the best of this opportunity and not make an even bigger embarrassment of himself as he had already done. Make sure you visit www.euroleague.livebasketball.tv to access live games with much more videos and do not forget to check on +Slap Dog Hoops for all the scores, recaps and highlights in +EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL.
