FC Barcelona nearly guaranteed itself home-court advantage in the playoffs while also eliminating host Zalgiris Kaunas with a resourceful 72-83 road win to open Top 16 Round 12 on Wednesday.
Alex Abrines led the visitors with 16 points, hitting back-to-back fourth-quarter triples to put the game out of reach at 60-75. Tibor Pleiss added 14 points and 7 rebounds off the bench. Tomas Satoransky had 12 points, DeShaun Thomas and Ante Tomic 11 each for the winners. Zalgiris tried to ride scorer James Anderson