Happy New Year to everyone and all the best for 2025. Episode 16 of the Gone Travling podcast looks at Round 13 of the BKT EuroCup and is highlighted by Valencia Basket losing a second straight game to heat up the fight for the number one seed in the playoffs. Speaking of the playoffs, the battle for spots 2-6 in both groups is getting tighter and tighter and should provide for some huge games down the stretch.

Sergio Llebres and David Hein look in-depth at Round 13 and start with Umana Reyer Venice’s surprise home win over Valencia and then go into Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem’s troublesome win over Aris Midea Thessaloniki. We also discuss the performances of Olivier Hanlan from Turk Telekom Ankara, Thomas Klepeisz of ratiopharm ulm, Aaron Best from Trefl Sopot and Wolves Twinsbet Vilnius forward Arnoldas Kulboka.

To close the show, we give a sneak peak into Round 14, which will be topped by Ulm hosting Dreamland Gran Canaria in a battle of 9-4 teams in Group A. The round of games also includes Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse welcoming 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys; Valencia facing Turk Telekom; and Jerusalem traveling to U-BT Cluj-Napoca.

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