Milestone alert: Levi Randolph joins the 1,000-point club

MIES (Switzerland) - Vojtech Hruban and Giorgi Shermadini are no longer alone. Levi Randolph scored his 1,000th point in the Basketball Champions League, becoming only the third player to reach the mark.

Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem's leader entered Wednesday's game thrilling game against Lenovo Tenerife with 993 points to his name. It did not take him long to get the 7 he needed to hit the millennium mark, reaching 1,000 career points by the halftime break in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain.

Randolph finished the game with 20 points to get to 1,013 and is now in hot pursuit of his opponent on Wednesday, Shermadini, who had 7 on the night and went up to 1,047 career points. Hruban meanwhile is in first place, with 1,092 total points after Wednesday's games. 

 
While Shermadini has scored all of his BCL points with Tenerife, and Hruban has played only for ERA Nymburk and Cholet Basket, Randolph has played in this competition for more teams than the two of them combined.

His first taste of the BCL was back in Season 1, as he spent the 2016-17 campaign with Scandone Avellino. In Season 2, he played for two different clubs, starting with Banco di Sardegna Sassari and finishing it with SIG Strasbourg, before taking a three-year long sabbatical from the BCL.

Randolph received a somewhat surprising call from Dario Gjergja and Filou Oostende in 2021-22, and it worked out better than anybody could have imagined.

With 17.4 points per game, it remains his highest scoring season in the BCL, and he set his BCL single-game high with Oostende, scoring 35 points against Unicaja on March 16, 2022.

The skilled winger finished that campaign as the BCL's top scorer for the season, earning a move to Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem the following summer.

He reached the Final in his first season in Jerusalem already, and with the team looking stronger than ever, the 31-year-old is hoping to leap that final hurdle this time around.