By Dionysis Aravantinos / info@eurohoops.net
Early in the season, Los Blancos handed Laso a contract extension, and he delivered. After leading Real Madrid to the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague trophy in Belgrade, but also to the Spanish League championship, Pablo Laso has been named the Gomelsky EuroLeague Coach of the Year for the second time in his career.
This is the second time Laso has won the esteemed trophy. He joins a select club of elite coaches with multiple Gomelskiy Coach of the Year awards made up by Ettore Messina and Zeljko Obradovic, the latter of whom Laso played for in the 1990s and now defeated in this season’s Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game. Laso won his first Gomelskiy Coach of the Year award in 2015.
The Alexander Gomelskiy EuroLeague Coach of the Year award is voted on by the 16 head coaches of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague teams, with the stipulation that no coach vote for himself. Laso edged Sarunas Jasikevicius of Zalgiris Kaunas in the closest vote for the award on record. Fenerbahce Dogus Istanbul’s Obradovic placed third followed by Pedro Martinez of KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz.
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