Derrick Williams makes history with tremendous scoring run / News - Basketnews.com

Derrick Williams scored 24 consecutive points, the most in the EuroLeague since 2007.

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Derrick Williams went on a run that hasn't been seen in the EuroLeague in the last 15 years.

In the Round 4 game vs. AS Monaco, Panathinaikos Athens forward shot the lights out with 24 points in a row.

Per Darius Garuolis data, that's the most consecutive points scored by the EuroLeague player since play-by-play data became available in 2007.

Williams surpassed Markus Howard and Devin Smith, who had scored 19 points in a row for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz (2022-23, Round 3) and Maccabi Tel Aviv (2014-15, Top 16 Round 11), respectively.

The No. 2 overall pick scored the final 8 points of the first half and 16 first points of the second.

Williams was the only Panathinaikos player to score for 8 minutes and 22 seconds.

Williams, 31, ended up scoring EuroLeague career-high 28 points, but Panathinaikos came up short 80-83.

Williams is averaging EuroLeague career-high 14.3 points (2FG: 52.6%; 3FG: 38.9%), 4.3 rebounds, and 1.5 assists this season.

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