One week after reviving his team after a record loss, Malik Hairston topped himself by putting on another Sportingbet MVP performance in Game 4 of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Playoffs to send Montepaschi Siena to the Final Four with its third victory in a row over Olympiacos Piraeus, 88-76. Hairston scored a season-high 25 points by making 7 of 10 two-point shots, 1 of 3 three-pointers and 8 of 9 free throws. He added 7 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal in racking up a performance index rating of 31. That almost matched his breakout game a week earlier, when Hairston posted a double-double and a 32 index rating to become Sportingbet Playoffs Game 2 MVP. Hairston is the first player to win the nightly MVP honor twice in the playoffs. The second best individual performance on Thursday belonged to the hero of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv’s series-clinching 99-77 win over Caja Laboral, Jeremy Pargo, who posted 26 points and 7 assists for a 27 index rating. Pargo made 5 of 7 two-point and 4 of 6 three-point shots for his season-high point total, as well. The Power Electronics Valencia guard duo of Omar Cook and Nando De Colo were tied for the third-best individual efforts of Game, each with index ratings of 23
