CEZ Basketball Nymburk cruised to a 91-78 victory over BC Budivelnik Kiev in their Group A opener. The Czech champions used a 30-8 run that bridged the second and third quarters and turned Budivelnik’s slim lead into a 20-point Nymburk advantage. Petr Benda led Nymburk with 18 points and Lukas Palyza scored 17 on perfect 5-for-5 three-point shooting. Drew Naymick chipped in with 9 points in 11 minutes on the floor, while George Tsintsadze had 14 points as the only Budivelnik player in double figures. Sergiy Gorbenko and Malcolm Delaney each had 9 points in defeat.

Tsintsadze hit a jumper for Budivelnik to open the scoring, while the hosts needed a few minutes to start their engines before making an 8-2 run with Mike Taylor scoring twice inside and giving Nymburk an early lead. Benda scored back-to-back-to-back layups to extend Nymburk's advantage to 16-11 and Naymick's layup-plus-foul made it a 6-point game. However, Delaney hit a shot to make it 19-15 at the end of first quarter, while Michalis Anisimov scored a layup at the start of the second to spark the visitors' run in which a couple layups from Pavlo Burenko combined with a Gorbenko triple and Igor Kirvtsov's shot gave Budivelnik a 24-26 advantage. It was short-lived, though, as Nymburk hit 4 three-pointers in the next three minutes. Palyza hit two and Miljan Pavkovic and Radoslav Rancik each hit one to put Nymburk up 38-30. The margin reached double figures after the hosts made 3 of 4 free throws, while more three-pointers from Palyza and a last-second shot from Pavkovic gave the Czech champions a 48-34 halftime lead.

Benda made a layup to open the third quarter and before jumpers from Pavkovic and Rancik made it 54-34. Dainius Salenga scored twice and Anisimov hit a triple for Budivelnik, but Nymburk kept the game in complete control with buckets from Taylor, Ranick and Benda. Another little run, this time 8-1, extended the lead to 68-44. Tsintsadze and Kostiantyn Anikiienko got to the foul line for Budivelnik, but they combined to make only 5 of 8 free throws and Naymick scored twice in the finale 60 seconds of the quarter for a 74-53 Nymburk lead going into the final 10 minutes. Burenko made a layup for Budivelnik to start the fourth quarter, but Palyza and Hruban made sure there would be no hopes of a big comeback. Vojtech Hruban hit a jumper to make it the biggest lead of the night, 86-61, before Gorbenko made back-to-back triples and Anikiienko scored 4 points in a 2-14 run that halved the deficit before the final buzzer.