The second semi-final of this season's Basketball Champions League between AEK Athens and Unicaja Malaga will be held on Friday, May 9th at Sunel Arena, and these are some key statistic facts about this game:- This will be the third game between AEK Betsson BC and Unicaja in the BCL, with the Spanish team having won the previous two meetings by double-digit margins in 2023; Unicaja will become the 17th team to face AEK at least three times in the BCL, but neither team has won their first three games against the Greek team.
- Both AEK Betsson BC and Unicaja will be competing in a BCL semi-final for the third time, with AEK having won the previous two (2018 & 2020). Both semi-finals were held in Athens. The Spanish team lost at home in 2023 and won last year against UCAM Murcia
- AEK Betsson BC has won its last nine BCL games played in Greece, allowing 80+ points only once in that span; AEK has won all eight of its home games this season, but has never surpassed eight wins in a season (also 8 wins in 2016/17 and 2019/20).
- Unicaja has won 23 of its last 24 BCL games, with only one loss away from home (84-86 at Galatasaray); its four games in the BCL Final Four have all been decided by a margin of six points or less, with the Spanish team losing twice as a host and winning two games last year at Belgrade.
- AEK Betsson BC is one of the three teams to have made at least 80% of their free throws in the BCL this year (80.2%); this is their highest percentage from the line in the history of their participation in the BCL
- Unicaja is averaging 94.4 points per game this year in the BCL, more than any other team in 2024/25 and more than any other team in a single season in the competition's history. The previous record was held by ERA Nymburk with 88.5 points per game in 2021.
- Dragan Sakota , coach of AEK Betsson BC, will be coaching his third game in a BCL Final Four and will be looking to become the third coach to remain undefeated in his first three games in this stage, following Txus Vidorreta and Joan Peñarroya. He has won two of his three games against Spanish teams in the BCL, including the 2018 semifinal against UCAM Murcia and Ibon Navarro (77-75).
- This will be Navarro's (coach of Unicaja) seventh Final Four game in the BCL, the second-highest coaching record in the competition's history, behind only Txus Vidorreta – it will be the second time he faces AEK Betsson BC and Dragan Sakota in a BCL semi-final, following his loss to UCAM Murcia in 2017/18 (75-77).
- Hunter Hale has scored 20+ points in two of his last three BCL games, as many times as in his previous 12 games with AEK Betsson BC in the competition; he has hit 4+ three-pointers in each of his last three games, while he had not done so in the previous 11.
- Kendrick Perry is the only player to score 10+ points for Unicaja in its two previous BCL semifinals (12 in 2023, 12 in 2024); he is averaging 15.8 points in four BCL Final Four games, with 18/19 free throws made.