FIBA Europe League Final! - Apr 28, 2005
Dynamo St. Petersburg  -  BC Kyiv  85-74  (18-25, 23-8, 28-21, 16-20)
Istambul (TUR), Spectators: 7500
Dynamo St. Petersburg beat BC Kyiv in the final of FIBA Europe League 85-74.  First quarter was won by Ukraine side after good performance of Andrii Lebediev and Marcus Norris who hit three 3-pointers at the end of this part of game. But in next 20 minutes Kelly McCarty (201-F-75, college: S.Mississippi) and bench player Mate Milisa showed why Dynamo didn’t lose any game in FEL and started their show. They scored 28 of 51 Dynamo’s points. Kyiv tried to work ot their loss but when they came up to St.Petersburg for less than 10 points American playmaker Ed Cota and their teammates stoped rivals.
St.Petersburg: McCarty 24, Cota 15, Askrabic 14, Milisa 13, Stefansson 9, Veremeenko 8, Ivanov 2.
Kyiv: Nicola 17, Greer 14, Lebediev 14, Giannoulis 12, Norris 12, Chikalkin 5.

In the third place game, Khimky defeated Final Four host Fenerbahce Istambul 86-79. 7500 spectators saw the individual competition of two playmakers. Damir Mrsic (21 points, 7 assists) had won with Melvin Booker (20 points, 2 assists), but he didn’t enough help of bench players to led up Fenerbahce to team-victory.
BC Khimky Moscow  -  Fenerbahce Istambul  86-79  ( 17-15, 22-18, 22-17, 25-29 )
Moscow: Booker 20, Wolkowsky 19, Torres 17, Petrenko 12, Savkov 10, Vuksanovic 5, Ershov 3.
Istambul: Mrsic 21, Salyers 18, Bibo 14, Onan 12, Harvey 8, Gulay 4, Guney 2.

  All-Star Game 2005: Rest of the World edge Europe by 4 points - Apr 15, 2005
Europe - Rest of the World 102-106 (27-34, 32-31, 18-19, 25-22)
Europe: Ratko Varda 18, D.Mrsic 12, J.Stefansson 10, I.Giannoulis 7, R.Necas 6; Kaspars Kambala 20, O.Onan 13, E.Markovic 8, K.Loncar 4, L.Lubin 2, D.Angelov 2, M.Kounounis 0
Rest of the World: Shammond Williams (188-G-75) 20+5reb+6ast, M.Salyers 18, A.Long 13, K.McCarty 12, E.Cota 8; M.Nicola 11, K.El-Amin 9, R.Wolkowisky 5, M.McDonald 4, O.Torres 3, L.Greer 3
Limasson in Cyprus was hosting FIBA Europe League All-Star Game 2005. The crowd of 5,000 fans filled completely Eleftheria stadium in Nicosia. And again this year Rest of the World team beat Europe All-Stars team. Non-Europeans were leading entire game and only in the last minutes the game was extremely close. However Europeans did not have enough time to catch up with better performing Rest of the World players. The hero of the evening was Shammond Williams (188-G-75), who assured last 11 points for his team, scoring 8 himself and dashing for a 3-pointer to Ruben Wolkowisky.
Game MVP: Shammond Williams (188-G-75) of Uniks Kazan
3-Points Shootout Winner: Marcelo Nicola (207-C/F-71) of BC Kyiv

The rosters of the two teams:

Europe: Guards: Dimitar Angelov, CSKA Sofia, BUL Jon Stefansson, St. Petersburg, ISL Damir Mrsic, Fenerbahce, BIH Michalis Kounounis, AEL Limassol, CYP Lior Lubin, Azovmash, ISR Omer Onan, Fenerbahce, TUR Forwards: Kresimir Loncar, BC Kiev, CRO Radek Necas, Nymburk, CZE Giannis Giannoulis, BC Kiev, GRE Kaspars Kambala, Unics Kazan, LAT Centers: Ratko Varda, Besiktas, SRB Erez Marckovich, Nahariya, ISR Managing staff: Aydin Ors , Fenerbahce, TUR Dragan Raca , AEL Limassol, CYP

Rest of World: Guards: Khalid El-Amin, Besiktas, USA Chris Anstey, Unics Kazan, AUS Shammond Williams, Unics Kazan, USA Ed Cota, St. Petersburg, USA LaMarr Greer, BC Kiev, USA Forwards: Marc Salyers, Fenerbahce, USA Kelly McCarty, St. Petersburg, USA Marcelo Nicola, BC Kiev, ARG Centers: Art Long, Azovmash, USA Andrew Ellis, Besiktas, USA Ruben Wolkowisky, BC Khimki, ARG Michael McDonald, AEL Limassol, CYP Managing staff: David Blatt, St. Petersburg, ISR Renato Pasquali,, BC Kiev, ITA