CSKA Moscow

What a wonderful season it was for CSKA Moscow, which regained the Euroleague crown after eight long seasons. Nando De Colo captured Euroleague MVP honors and Milos Teodosic joined him on the All-Euroleague First Team as CSKA led the league in scoring with one of the best attacks in competition history. On the other side of the ball, Kyle Hines earned Euroleague Best Defender honors. With everyone in sync under the tutelage of Coach Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA won both its regular season and Top 16 groups before sweeping Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade in the playoffs. Then came a victory over Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in the first game at the Final Four in Berlin. The championship game produced drama after CSKA coughed up a 20-point halftime lead, but team captain Victor Khryapa came to the rescue with a late put-back to force overtime, where De Colo took over to lead CSKA to its seven Euroleague crown.