Van den Spiegel and Langdon with 4 apiece

Van den Spiegel had a big block on Tomasevic early in the fourth quarter, showing that CSKA's defense would take no prisoners from now on. He shined with a three-point play at the other end to bring CSKA within 65-60. But Smodis picked up his fourth foul with 9 minutes to go and CSKA lost control for half a minute, in which free throws by Becirovic and a power layup by Tomasevic made it a 9-point game, 69-60. Langdon stepped up with an off-balanced three-point play, but an outstanding Tomasevic scored again in the low post. Papaloukas stepped up and took over with an incredible left-handed layup. Both teams had already entered the foul bonus with 7 minutes to go. Papaloukas made a free throw, but Siskauskas beat the shot-clock buzzer with an easy layup. An unstoppable Papaloukas singlehandedly kept CSKA in the game, this time with a three-point play to get within 73-69. Siskauskas made 3 more free throws as CSKA faced severe foul problems with Smodis, Van den Spiegel and Langdon with 4 apiece. Batiste opted to take Smodis one-on-one and scored twice again him, making it six Panathinaikos players in double digits already. Holden buried a shot, but Tomasevic answered with a three-point play that broke the game open at 83-73 with less than 4 minutes to go. Batiste "scored" for CSKA while trying to sweep a missed free throw by Van den Spiegel and then Smodis hit a triple from its favorite spot at the top of the key to give his team some hope. Diamantidis made a foul shot and so did Holden to get CSKA within 84-79 with 1:52 to go. Siskauskas almost sealed the outcome with a three-point play, but Langdon came to CSKA's rescue with back-to-back triples that got CSKA within 87-85 with 51.3 seconds remaining. Batiste stepped up with a turnaround jumper with 34.5 seconds to go and Langdon went to the well one too mnay times at the other end. But Smodis grabbed the offensive rebound and was fouled. He made 1 of 2 from the line with 22 seconds remaining, 89-86. CSKA opted to foul on Vujanic immediately and his free throws set a new record for most free throws made and attempted in an Euroleague final and put his team up 91-86. CSKA ran out of time, and a sea of Green fan in the stands celebrated that Panathinaikos had won its fourth Euroleague title in one of the best games ever seen in European basketball!