Euroleague championship trivia

From the Le Sais-Tu Department comes a few interesting news bites on this evening’s Euroleague Championship participants. Read on, triviamongers! Juan Carlos Navarro: Answer to many a trivia question • Theo Papaloukas is the only player in tonight’s game to have played on Eurobasket- and Euroleague-winning teams, though an FC Barcelona win would also extend this honor to Ricky Rubio and Juan Carlos Navarro, who played with European champion Team Spain last summer. Ten others have accomplished the feat in this decade, a list which includes names like J.R. Holden, Viktor Khryapa and Sarunas Jasikevicius. • Navarro could become the only active player to win a Euroleague title while also holding a spot on the roster of defending FIBA world champions, as Spain took the tournament in 2006. Fourteen retired players have also been simultaneous Euroleague/FIBA world champions, led by the likes of Toni Kukoc, Dejan Bodiroga and Sergei Belov. • Navarro is also the only non-Team USSR, non-T...