The MVP of the Round honor for Game 3 of the 2025 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs is shared between FC Barcelona’s Willy Hernangomez and Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens’s Kendrick Nunn. Both Hernangomez and Nunn finished with a performance index rating (PIR) of 31, the highest among winning players in Game 3. For Hernangomez, his 31 PIR is a career high. The Spaniard posted 19 points on 8-of-9 two-pointers and 3-of-4 free throws, 10 rebounds, 1 steal, and 5 fouls drawn as Barcelona beat AS Monaco 100-89 to reduce the series deficit to 2-1. Nunn amassed 25 points on 9-of-13 two-pointers and 7-of-7 free throws, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, and 6 fouls drawn in Panathinaikos’s 77-81 win at Anadolu Efes Istanbul, which gave the Greens a 2-1 series lead.

The highest PIR recorded in Game 3 belonged to Monaco’s Mike James, who had a 33 PIR, but it came in a losing effort. James recorded 20 points on 3-of-5 two-pointers, 4-of-8 three-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws, 5 rebounds, 12 assists, and 4 fouls drawn. Olympiacos Piraeus’s Sasha Vezenkov had a 26 PIR in the Reds’ 80-72 defeat at Real Madrid, finishing with 21 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, and 1 steal. Panathinaikos forward Konstantinos Mitoglou had a season-high 25 PIR in his team’s win at Efes, posting 18 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block.

In individual highs, Dan Oturu of Efes had 5 blocks. TJ Shorts of Paris Basketball led all scorers in Game 3 with 29 points, while Kendrick Nunn averages a league-best 20.8 points per game. Willy Hernangomez pulled down 10 rebounds in Game 3, the most of any player. His brother, Juancho Hernangomez of Panathinaikos, leads the league in rebounding with 6.9 boards per game. Mike James of Monaco dished 12 assists in Game 3, the most in this round of the playoffs, while TJ Shorts is top of the assists charts with 7.3 assists per contest. Tarik Biberovic of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul led the way with 3 steals in Game 3. Nick Weiler-Babb of FC Bayern Munich averaged 1.5 steals per night this season. Dan Oturu of Efes blocked 5 shots in Game 3, the joint most of any player in the 2025 playoffs. Georgios Papagiannis of Monaco averages a league-high 1.4 blocks per game. Mike James (20 points, 12 assists) and Willy Hernangomez (19 points, 10 rebounds) were the only players to record a double-double in Game 3.

Serge Ibaka displaying his blocking talents for Real Madrid ranked first in the Top 10 Plays of the Game 3 contests.