2023 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto

2023 Copa del Rey
Tournament details
Country	Spain
City	Badalona
Venue(s)	Palau Municipal d'Esports
Dates	16–19 February 2023
Teams	8
Defending champions	Barça
Final positions
Champions	Unicaja (2nd title)
Runner-up	Lenovo Tenerife
Semifinalists	Real Madrid; Joventut;
Tournament statistics
Matches played	7
Attendance	74,665 (10,666 per match)
MVP	Tyson Carter (Unicaja)
	← 2022 2024 →; All statistics correct as of 19 February 2023.

The 2023 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto was the 87th edition of the Spanish Basketball King's Cup. It was managed by the ACB and was held in Badalona, in the Palau Municipal d'Esports in February 2023.^[1]

Barça were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Unicaja in the quarterfinals, who went on to win the cup for their 2nd overall.

All times are in Central European Time (UTC+01:00).

Qualified teams

The top seven ranking teams after the first half of the 2022–23 ACB regular season qualified to the tournament. As Joventut, host team, finished between the seven first teams, the eighth qualified entered in the Copa del Rey.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification
1	Real Madrid	17	14	3	1490	1285	+205	Qualification as seeded team
2	Barça	17	14	3	1429	1245	+184
3	Lenovo Tenerife	17	13	4	1401	1228	+173
4	Cazoo Baskonia	17	13	4	1540	1405	+135
5	Unicaja	17	12	5	1475	1290	+185	Qualification as unseeded team
6	Gran Canaria	17	10	7	1424	1350	+74
7	Joventut (H)	17	10	7	1409	1359	+50
8	Valencia Basket	17	9	8	1466	1434	+32

Source: ACB
Rules for classification: 1) Win–loss record; 2) Point difference; 3) Points scored; 4) Sum of quotients of points scored; 5) Previous season standings position.^[2]
(H) Hosts

Venue

On May 16, 2022, ACB selected and announced Badalona to host the Copa del Rey in February 2023.^[1] The arena is primarily used for basketball, though it is also an habitual home for music concerts and other municipal events. The arena was built in 1991, it was opened in 1992 with a basketball game between Catalonia and Croatia; where Croatians won by 118-82 led with 30 points of Toni Kukoč and 21 point of Dražen Petrović.^[3] The arena hosted the basketball tournament of the 1992 Summer Olympics, the 1992 Olympic Basketball Tournament. It was designed by the architects Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius, who won the 1992 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for this building. It is also the home arena of Joventut, one of the most important professional basketball squads in Spain. Before the Pavelló Olímpic was built, the now 3,300 capacity Pavelló Club Joventut Badalona hosted the city basketball games and most of the other indoor sports.

Badalona	Badalona 2023 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto (Spain)
Palau Municipal d'Esports
Capacity: 12,760

Draw

The draw was held on 23 January 2023 in Badalona, Spain.^[4] The top four ranking teams act as seeded teams in the draw of the quarterfinals. For its part, the top ranked team played its quarterfinal match on Thursday.

Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final

Joventut	94

Cazoo Baskonia	81
		Joventut	72

		Lenovo Tenerife	73
Lenovo Tenerife	89

Gran Canaria	73
				Lenovo Tenerife	80

				Unicaja	83
Real Madrid	86

Valencia Basket	85
		Real Madrid	82

		Unicaja	93
Barça	87

Unicaja	89

Quarterfinals

Real Madrid vs. Valencia Basket

16 February 2023	Real Madrid	86–85	Valencia Basket	Badalona
18:30	Scoring by quarter: 21–13, 20–21, 22–24, 23–27
	Pts: Deck 19 Rebs: Deck 9 Asts: Hanga 4 PIR: Deck 26	Boxscore	Pts: Jones 20 Rebs: Claver, Dubljević 5 Asts: Jones 5 PIR: Jones 17	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 9,218 Referees: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Óscar Perea, Joaquín García

Barça vs. Unicaja

16 February 2023	Barça	87–890(OT)	Unicaja	Badalona
21:30	Scoring by quarter: 21–20, 20–14, 14–16, 21–26, Overtime: 11–13
	Pts: Mirotić 15 Rebs: Mirotić 9 Asts: Veselý 5 PIR: Satoranský, Mirotić 14	Boxscore	Pts: Brizuela 27 Rebs: Perry 6 Asts: Thomas 6 PIR: Perry 27	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 10,147 Referees: Carlos Peruga, Fernando Calatrava, Jorge Martínez

Lenovo Tenerife vs. Gran Canaria

17 February 2023	Lenovo Tenerife	89–73	Gran Canaria	Badalona
18:30	Scoring by quarter: 30–25, 25–13, 17–20, 17–15
	Pts: Fernández 26 Rebs: Guerra 5 Asts: Huertas 6 PIR: Fernández 24	Boxscore	Pts: Shurna 18 Rebs: Diop 7 Asts: Brussino 7 PIR: Shurna 19	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 9,386 Referees: Daniel Hierrezuelo, Benjamín Jiménez, Alfonso Olivares

Joventut vs. Cazoo Baskonia

17 February 2023	Joventut	94–81	Cazoo Baskonia	Badalona
21:30	Scoring by quarter: 14–19, 21–23, 33–15, 26–24
	Pts: Tomić 18 Rebs: three players 5 Asts: Guy 6 PIR: Tomić 21	Boxscore	Pts: Giedraitis 13 Rebs: Costello 6 Asts: Thompson 8 PIR: Costello, Sedekerskis 16	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 11,075 Referees: Antonio Conde, Martín Caballero, Rafael Serrano

Semifinals

Real Madrid vs. Unicaja

18 February 2023	Real Madrid	82–93	Unicaja	Badalona
18:30	Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 20–22, 20–27, 23–27
	Pts: Tavares 19 Rebs: Deck 6 Asts: Rodríguez 3 PIR: Tavares 26	Boxscore	Pts: Kravish 20 Rebs: Kravish, Kalinoski 6 Asts: Carter 5 PIR: Kravish 24	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 11,547 Referees: Antonio Conde, Óscar Perea, Rafael Serrano

Joventut vs. Lenovo Tenerife

18 February 2023	Joventut	72–73	Lenovo Tenerife	Badalona
21:30	Scoring by quarter: 27–23, 17–17, 15–17, 13–16
	Pts: Parra 26 Rebs: Ellenson 8 Asts: Guy, Ribas 2 PIR: Parra 26	Boxscore	Pts: Huertas 15 Rebs: Doornekamp 10 Asts: Huertas, Fernández 4 PIR: Shermadini 19	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 11,834 Referees: Daniel Hierrezuelo, Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Benjamín Jiménez

Final

19 February 2023	Lenovo Tenerife	80–83	Unicaja	Badalona
19:00	Scoring by quarter: 16–17, 23–20, 21–23, 20–23
	Pts: Huertas 21 Rebs: Shermadini 9 Asts: Huertas 10 PIR: Shermadini 31	Boxscore	Pts: Carter 17 Rebs: Kalinoski 9 Asts: Díaz 9 PIR: Carter 17	Arena: Palau Municipal d'Esports Attendance: 11,458 Referees: Emilio Pérez Pizarro, Benjamín Jiménez, Fernando Calatrava

2023 Copa del Rey champions
Unicaja 2nd title

References

^ ^a ^b "La Copa del Rey 2023, en Badalona | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 16 May 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ "¡Así queda la lucha por la Copa! | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 15 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ Crošarka Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Prije 20 godina: Sve utakmice Hrvatske do Olimpijskih igara u Barceloni, Autor: Sanjin Vučković/ Foto: Olimpijci.hr , Aug 08, 2012 (in Croatian)
^ "El sorteo de la Copa, en directo | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 19 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

External links

Official website (in Spanish)

[Venue-1] "La Copa del Rey 2023, en Badalona | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 16 May 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

[2] "¡Así queda la lucha por la Copa! | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 15 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

[3] Crošarka Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Prije 20 godina: Sve utakmice Hrvatske do Olimpijskih igara u Barceloni, Autor: Sanjin Vučković/ Foto: Olimpijci.hr , Aug 08, 2012 (in Croatian)

[4] "El sorteo de la Copa, en directo | ACB.COM". www.acb.com (in Spanish). 19 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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