Dimitris Diamantidis, Mike James, Vasilije Micic, Anthony Parker, and Sergio Rodriguez join the list of the 25 greatest players from the competition’s first quarter-century.
The second set of honorees on the All-25 EuroLeague Team includes five EuroLeague MVPs! Dimitris Diamantidis, Mike James, Vasilije Micic, Anthony Parker, and Sergio Rodriguez were selected to be enshrined among the 25 biggest stars of the competition's first quarter-century.
They join Nando De Colo, Sergio Llull, Ramunas Siskauskas, Vassilis Spanoulis, and Nikola Vujcic, who were named last week in the first beat of players to be released.
The selection process combined the votes of EuroLeague head coaches who had won a championship, past All-Decade Team members and MVPs, media representatives, and fans. The coaches and playing greats each made up 40% of the final vote, and the media and fans were each 10%.
The ultimate leader on and off the floor, Dimitris Diamantidis was the cornerstone of Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens's dynasty. A three-time EuroLeague champion with the Greens and the 2010-11 EuroLeague MVP.
Diamantidis was an elite defender who could also be counted on to have the ball in his hands on offense at crunch time. He was the only player voted to both the 2000-10 and 2010-20 EuroLeague All-Decade teams.
The EuroLeague’s all-time leader in points scored and the only player to have poured in more than 5,000 career points, Mike James has certainly made a lasting impression across his 11 seasons in the competition.
From showing promise at Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz and Panathinaikos Athens to securing the Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy and his first All-EuroLeague selection at EA7 Emporio Armani Milan, James went to new heights after joining AS Monaco from CSKA Moscow in the summer of 2022.
A floor general and a scorer who gradually grew into the ultimate winner with Anadolu Efes Istanbul, Vasilije Micic won just about everything on the EuroLeague hardwoods.
Micic led Efes to back-to-back EuroLeague titles as the Final Four MVP in 2021 and 2022. He was the 2020-21 EuroLeague MVP and the EuroLeague Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Award winner, averaging 18.2 points in 2021-22.
Anthony Parker cemented himself as one of the premier two-way players in EuroLeague history during his time with Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv. He was the go-to guy on the Maccabi dynasty that won back-to-back EuroLeague championships in 2004 and 2005 and reached the championship game the following season.
Parker is the only two-time EuroLeague MVP; he captured the honors the first two times the award was presented (2005, 2006). He was also the 2004 Final Four MVP.
One of the most creative point guards and ballhandlers ever seen in European basketball, Sergio Rodriguez was a fan favorite everywhere he played. Nicknamed "El Chacho", he combined elite playmaking, exceptional court vision, and clutch shot-making to become a dominant force in European basketball.
Rodriguez suited up for four clubs in his 14 EuroLeague seasons and is best known for his accomplishments with Real Madrid, where he played eight of those seasons.
He helped Real reach a golden age with four Final Fours, three championship games appearances, and the 2015 EuroLeague crown and 2014 MVP trophy in his first six seasons with the club. Moreover, Chacho did it as a "supersub", coming off the bench to change games for Los Blancos.
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