Baku basketball club Sabah beat France’s Nanterre 87:80 in the FIBA Champions League regular season, picking up their first victory of the tournament.
The Round 3 game was played at the National Gymnastics Arena in Baku. The Azerbaijani champions had home advantage and finished seven points clear of their French opponents.
Sabah had lost their previous two matches in the competition. The club fell 73:82 to Lithuania’s Rytas and 83:100 to Turkey’s Trabzonspor.
The win over Nanterre gives the Baku side their first points of the season in the FIBA Champions League.
