Estonian basketball players see mixed Champions League fortunes
Estonian national team basketball player Henri Drell's Badalona Joventut (Spain) beat Cholet Basket 89:87 away from home in the final group-stage game of the Basketball Champions League.
With the result, Joventut finished Group C with a perfect record of six wins and are through to the round of 16.
Drell, a small forward who in his career so far has got in NBA court time as well as play time with top European clubs, played for a total of 18 minutes, during which time he scored 13 points, grabbed four rebounds and doled out one assist.
At the opposite end of Group C was Artur Konontšuk's club Bursaspor (Turkey), who lost all six games and so are out of the competition. In their final game, they lost 92:83 at home against Hapoel Holon (Israel).
Konontšuk played nearly 24 minutes, scoring eight points, collecting three rebounds and recording one assist.
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Editor: Andrew Whyte, Maarja Värv
