Red Star Belgrade sweep Partizan to win basketball ABA League

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade have claimed their seventh title in the regional basketball ABA League by completing a 3-0 sweep of arch-rivals Partizan in a best-of-five playoffs final series with a 82-76 away win at the Belgrade Arena on Sunday evening.

The Game 3 victory was Red Star's sixth consecutive win over Partizan across all competitions.

Aleksa Avramovic was the top scorer for Partizan with 17 points and Danilo Andjusic added 13.

Luka Mitrovic and Rokas Giedraitis led Red Star to victory with 12 points each while Yago dos Santos added 11 points.

Partizan were without James Nunnally, who got involved in an incident with Red Star's Stefan Lazarevic prior to the game.

Dos Santos was named MVP of the final series.