Slovenian are celebrating being crowned Eurobasket champions after a scintillating 93-85 win over bitter rivals Serbia in their first major final.

Slovenia captain Goran Dragic lead the way to the title in more ways than one as he scored 35 points, along with seven rebounds and three assists.

Congrats to my brother Goran_Dragic for winning European championship and MVP! Flex on them G pic.twitter.com/cWXh0vY6SJ— Hassan Whiteside (youngwhiteside) September 17, 2017

A great way to step off for the Miami Heat star who said before the match that this would be his last game for national team.

Thousands of fans traveled from the Balkans to turn the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul into a cauldron of noise as two men’s senior basketball teams from the former Yugoslavia met in a final for the first time.

Congratulations to #Slovenia for a historical #EuroBasket2017 gold medal! Congrats also to #Serbia for winning the silver! pic.twitter.com/O3DX7s3iUY— ABA Liga (@ABA_League) September 17, 2017

In the fight for third place between Spain and Russia, the scoreline was the same as Spain won the battle for bronze. Pau Gasol top scoring with 26 points and ten rebounds.