With Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv in a dire need of a win to snap its eight-game losing streak, center Ante Zizic stepped up to lead the team to an 84-69 win over the visiting Olympiacos Piraeus and earn the MVP of Round 22 honor in the process. Zizic fell a point shy of his career-best scoring night, finishing this contest with a game-high 23 points on 10-for-12 two-point shooting. The Maccabi big man also collected 6 rebounds, 2 steals, 1 block and an assist, while drawing 4 personal fouls to match his career-high performance index rating of 33. Zizic is the first Maccabi player not named Scottie Wilbekin to win this award in three years. Coincidentally, his first MVP honor came 16 years after his older brother Andrija won his only such award playing for Olympiacos in Tel Aviv against Maccabi on January 5, 2006. They become the second pair of brothers, after Ksystof and Darjus Lavrinovic, to both earn MVP of the Round. Round 22’s next-best PIRs of 30 each belonged to guards Maodo…
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