TENERIFE (Spain) – Spanish membership Lenovo Tenerife lifted on Sunday the FIBA Intercontinental Cup trophy for the third time of their historical past after prevailing 89-68 over Brazil’s Sao Paulo within the Final of the thirty second version of the competitors, in Tenerife’s Santiago Martin area.

The reigning Basketball Champions League champions had celebrated their first FIBA Intercontinental Cup title success in 2017 and adopted up with a second conquest in 2020. In distinction, this was the primary time Sao Paulo represented their area within the competitors, by advantage of conquering their maiden Basketball Champions League Americas title in 2022.

Real Madrid are nonetheless essentially the most profitable membership in FIBA Intercontinental Cup historical past, having collected silverware on 5 events, with Lenovo Tenerife now becoming a member of Italy’s Varese and USA’s Akron Goodyear Wingfoots as the one golf equipment to have three title conquests to their identify.

Bruno Fitipaldo of Lenovo Tenerife, who had 15 factors and 6 assists within the Final, was voted MVP of the match. Two-time NBA champion Malik Rose, at the moment NBA Vice President, Basketball Operations, was available in Tenerife to current the Uruguay level guard with the MVP award.

The lengthy checklist of dignitaries that attended the occasion in Tenerife included, amongst others, FIBA President Hamane Niang, FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis, FIBA Honorary President and FIBA Foundation President Horacio Muratore, FIBA Central Board Member Carmen Tocala, FIBA Europe Secretary General Kamil Novak, BCL Chairman and BCLA board member Markus Studer, BCL CEO Patrick Comninos, BAL President Amadou Fall, FEB President Jorge Garbajosa and David Foster of the NBPA.

In the Third-Place Game earlier on Sunday, NBA G League Rio Grande Valley Vipers defeated Basketball Africa League title holders US Monastir 107-84 thanks in nice half to Jarrett Culver’s game-high 34 factors on 6-of-8 taking pictures from past the three-point arc..

The thirty second version marked the second event that the occasion featured the champions of continental leagues from 4 totally different world areas, and US Monastir grew to become solely the second African membership to participate within the competitors, after Egypt’s Zamalek in 2022.