What Was The Top Play From This Year’s EuroBasket Tournament?

The 2015 EuroBasket Championship came to a close Sunday, with Pau Gasol and Spain taking home their first major tournament trophy in almost three years. Doubling as a qualifier for next summer’s Olympic games, it also helped decide two out of the six remaining bids, with both Spain and silver medal winners Lithuania punching their tickets for a chance to play for gold in Rio.

France took home the bronze medal in the losers’ bracket game against a scrappy Serbian team, but both squads – along with other heavyweights like Greece and Italy, who were knocked out of the tournament early – will still have to earn their tickets to Rio at one of next summer’s three final qualifying tournaments.

So many of the teams at this year’s EuroBasket were loaded with talent – of the NBA variety and otherwise – so there were plenty of highlights to go around. Even former NBA player Rudy Fernandez makes a guest appearance on the top ten plays. Giannis Antetokounmpo, likewise, makes a couple of appearances, one of which will go on his career highlight reel, while the other he’d probably like to forget altogether.

But the No. 1 highlight of the tournament comes courtesy of a certain other young NBA player, nicknamed appropriately after an iconic European landmark located in his home country. If he can keep up this type of play for his NBA team back in the states, he’ll have them poised for big things.

(Via FIBA)

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