26 Nov 2011

Navarro tops all time leading scorers in Euroleague

6:33 am on 26 November 2011

The Barcelona shooting guard Juan Carlos Navarro became the Euroleague's all-time leading scorer as the 2010 winners of Europe's premier basketball club competition stretched their perfect start to six games.

Six-time winners CSKA Moscow also kept their unbeaten record intact with a 95-82 home win over Lithuanians Zhalgiris Kaunas, thanks to centre Nenad Krstic, who scored 21 points, and fellow Serbian playmaker Milos Teodosic who had 14 and seven assists.

Navarro, who is in his 11th Euroleague season, received a standing ovation in the Blaugrana Arena when he achieved his target of 2,716 career points midway through the third quarter in Barcelona's 72-46 home rout of Slovenians Olimpija Ljubljana.

The versatile guard, who played in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2007-08 season before returning to his native Spain and Barcelona, finished the game on 14 points to beat the record held by former U.S. shooting guard Marcus Brown.