Team Pau completed their championship run in the Jordan Rising Stars Challenge, topping Team Deron and then Team Joakim as Bennedict Mathurin got the ball to Jose Alvarado for the game winning three.
It proved to be a strong run for Team Pau, the favorites in the four-team tournament, which featured four of this year’s top six draft picks. Though it proved to be the one undrafted player, New Orleans’s Alvarado, that stole the show, scoring 13 points in the opening win and drilling the game winner in the second, securing the MVP award.