Sasha Vezenkov emerged January MVP in the Euroleague and wrote history to Olympiacos

He made a… super January with him at the Euroleague and emerged MVP for that particular month in the event. Sasha Vezenkov stood out with his performance in the Olympic games against Zalgiris, Bayern, Basconia, Real Madrid, Fenerbahce and Anadolu Efes. However, his appearance against the Bavarians was historical. CORVERSE Sasha Vezenkov did incredible things against the Bavarians, at the Euroleague 20th race match scoring 45 points ( career record). Bulgarian international made a total of four personal records in that match, i.e. points (he had 41 before), a score in the rating system (52), aptly three points (8) and aptly two points (10), and became the first player in Olympiacos history to score 45 points in a European race. Sasha Vezenkov from is the January MVP 24.3 PTS I 6.5 REB survived in 6 games this past month! MVP of the Month I ADVERSE — Turkish Airlines EuroLeague (@EuroLeague) The 52 points in the rating system are the highest performance of a player in a match in the current season in the event, but also the sixth best in the history of the event. In the month of January Sasha Vezenkov “measured” 24.3 points and 6.5 rebounds on average in the event, gathering 26.5 points in the rating system. This is the 4th time that Sasha Vezenkov has been named MVP of a month in the event and as of today he is the only Olympiacos player to have achieved it four times, as before he was tied with three one month MVP titles, with Vassilis Spanoulis (February 2012, November 2013 and October 2014). Sasha Vezenkov had emerged MVP one month also in February 2022, November 2023 and February 2024. With the four one-month MVP titles, the Olympiacos leader also spent in 3rd place players with most one-month MVP titles, all-time in the event. Only Nikola Mirotic and Mike James surpass Bulgarian forward with seven and five MVP titles respectively. This is the 13th time an Olympic player is shown a one-month MVP in the Euroleague (the last four by Sasha Vezenkov), the 4th highest performance by all Euroleague teams in history. The remaining players of the Piraeus team who emerged more valuable one month in Euroleague are Tyus Edni (February 2006), Arvidas Matsiyauskas (November 2007), Milos Teodosic (January 2010), Russo Nesterovic (February 2011), Stratos Perperoglou (December 2013) and George Printezis (April 2015).