Panathinaikos beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek League 23rd day

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Kolossos Rodou for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Kolossos Rodou had only victory against Panathinaikos in 19 games and this was for the play offs. Panathinaikos' coach Fragiskos Alvertis used all available players and the team had its ups and downs. Panathinaikos started with a 20-8 score that Kolossos made 28-24, Panathinaikos made it again 35-24 and the first half finished with score 49-45. In the second half Panathinaikos was better and Kolossos Rodou couldn't follow the rotation so the difference went up to two digits. All twelve players of Panathinaikos played and scored at least two points. Stephane Lasme had 18 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Roko Leni Ukić scored 8 points with 4/4 shots and no turnovers, Ramel Curry had 14 points. For Kolossos Rodou Kostas Kakaroudis and Mladen Pantić scored 18 points each, with Kakaroudis having 6 rebounds and Pantić 8 rebounds too. Nontas Papantoniou scored 8 points and missed a unique double double since he also had 10 assists. Taylor Smith had 10 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 28-24, 49-45, 74-56, 102-69

Panathinaikos: Bramos 7, Curry 14, Fotsis 2, Ukić 8, Lasme 18, Mavrokefalidis 8, Diamantidis 11, Gist 10, Pappas 4, Giankovits 8, Maciulis 4, Wright 8.
Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 8, Car 6, Matsamas, Georgalis 5, Hopkins, Smith 10, Stefanidis 2, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 18, Pantić 18, Danas.

Panionios beat PAOK for Greek League 23rd day

Panionios hosted and defeated PAOK for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Panionios had won PAOK in the first round game by 91-100 in Thessaloniki. Panionios was leading the score in the first half and PAOK balanced the game in the second one. In the last minutes Kostas Charalampidis scored a three pointer, Errick McCollum didn't score and the game went to extra time. In the extra time DJ Cooper was leading PAOK but he also was the crucial player that missed the final attack. In a very productive game, where the partial total score of each quarter was more than 35 points, Panionios had more rebounds and less turnovers. The two teams had the same three pointers 10/26 and the same successful field goals 22 with the home team shooting 6 more than PAOK. For Panionios Errick McCollum had 20 points, Vasilis Simtsak had 12 points, 9 rebounds and Giannis Athanasoulas had 6 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. For PAOK Kostas Charalampidis had 26 points, Mark Payne had 24 points, 7 rebounds and 2 steals, Michalis Tsairelis had 12 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 30-23, 37-33, 63-63, 83-83. Extra time: 95-92

Panionios: McCollum 20, Duvnjak 4, Carter 10, Milbourne 9, Athanasoulas 6, Batis 13, Skordilis, Langford 8, Michel, Simtsak 12, Kyritsis, Saloustros 13.
PAOK: Payne 24, Cooper 16, Charalampidis 26, Tsochlas, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 12, Dedas 6, Margaritis 1, Kalles, Bogris 5, Kaselakis 2, Liapis.

Kenny Gabriel named MVP of 22nd day

Kenny Gabriel named MVP of the 22nd day of the Greek Basket League for his performance against KAOD. Gabriel had 26 points, 10 rebounds and 2 steals in the game and his ranking score was the highest of the day. This was the second time Gabriel is named MVP of the day after 18th day against Apollon Patras.

Nikos Chatzis became the top scorer of the Greek Basket League

Nikos Chatzis became the top scorer of the Greek Basket League. With the 19 points that he scored against Ikaros Chalkidas, Nikos Chatzis passed Angelos Koronios and is now the top scorer of all times of the Greek Basket League. Nikos Chatzis now has 5184 points and will be playing for at least the end of this season, while Angelos Koronios who has retired had 5170 points.

Nea Kifisia beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek League 23rd day

Nea Kifisia hosted and beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Nea Kifisia played without Tony Crocker who had a knee surgery earlier this week. The home team with high shot accuracy and 14 more rebounds controlled the game, although Nea Kifisia had double turnovers than Rethymno. For Nea Kifisia Giannis Psathas had 16 points and 6 rebounds, Dimitris Tsaldaris had 20 points and Nikos Liakopoulos had 13 points and 8 assists. For Rethymno Aegean had Luka Drča had 14 points, Kenny Gabriel had 10 points and 5 rebounds, Eziukwu had 10 points and 4 rebounds. 
Quarters' scores: 24-14, 43-35, 64-54, 84-76.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 2, Liakopoulos 13, Kompodietas, Sioutis 2, Psathas 16, Garrett 2, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 11, Tsaldaris 20, Adegboye, Kakiouzis 13, Barlos 5.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 5, Kallinikidis 4, Koumpouras 2, Aggelopoulos, Wright 11, Kalampokis 9, Kanonidis, Sinis 8, Latovic 3, Eziukwu 10, Drča 14, Gabriel 10.
 

Aries Trikala lost by Olympiacos for Greek League 23rd day

Aries Trikala lost by Olympiacos for Greek Basket League 23rd day. Olympiacos had 26 assists in this game and 11/23 three pointers, which gave no hopes to the home team. Aries Triakala only managed to lower the difference to 14 points with a good last quarter. For Aries Trikala Chris Evans had 17 points, Stefan Perunicic 12 points and Christos Deligiannis 14 points. For Olympiacos Brent Petway was the top scorer with 21 points, Giannis Papapetrou had 12 points and Mat Lojeski 10 points. Kostas Sloukas had 9 points, 8 assists and 4 steals.
Quarters' scores: 14-20, 29-46, 51-75, 70-84.

Aries Trikala: Evans 17, Perunicic 12, Ewing 9, Giannakidis 2, Petrovic 3, Porrini 2, Sapp 3, Deligiannis 14, Matalon 3, Panos 5, Nikolopoulos.
Olympiacos: Petway 21, Dunston 6, Christodoulou, Papapetrou 12, Sloukas 9, Collins 5, Simmons 6, Lojeski 10, Agravanis 5, Mantzaris, Kavvadas 7, Katsivelis 3.
 

Ilisiakos beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 23rd day

Ilisiakos hosted and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 23rd day. In the crucial game between two teams that fight to avoid relegation Ilisiakos won with a historic game by Nikos Chatzis. The veteran player had 19 points and became the top scorer of all times in the Greek Basket League. Ilisiakos made only 15 fouls against 26 of Ikaros Chalkidas, so the free throws were 22/31 for the home team and 7/8 for the guests. Besides Chatzis, Cheikh Mbodj had 15 points and Stelios Ioannou 17 points and 9 rebounds. For Ilisiakos only 6 players scored with Anthony Roberson having 22 points and Ryan Richards making a double double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Giannis Gagaloudis had 19 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 steals.
Quarters' scores: 28-12, 43-37, 56-56, 79-71.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 10, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 5, Chatzis 19, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 3, Nikopoulos, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 17, Tzougarakis 2, Mbodj 15, Pigram 8. 
Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 22, Woodall 8, Aska 5, Manolopoulos 2, Sutton 5, Gagaloudis 19, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Demertzis, Richards 10, Bempis.

KAOD lost by Apollon Patras for Greek League 23rd day

KAOD hosted Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League 23rd day. First quarter was balanced in the start but Apollon Patras finished it with a 7-0 run and 8 points lead. In the second quarter KAOD managed to lower the difference to 5 points. Julian Vaughn had 14 points and 9 rebounds in the first half while his team had 1/8 three pointers. For Apollon Patras Ross, Petrovic and Milutinovic finished first half with two digits score. Apollon Patras controlled the game in the third quarter and was leading the score by 73-59 before KAOD made its counter attack. In the end Apollon Patras won by two points in a court that many great teams have lost. Massive game by Julian Vaughn that break the ranking system with a performance rated with 42. Vaughn had 25 points, 17 rebounds, 3 blocks and 7 fouls drawn. No doubt that he will be the MVP of the day. For Apollon Patras Roland Ross had 19 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists. Lenny Daniel had 20 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 17-25, 39-44, 53-59, 81-83.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 4, Jones 12, Stiggers 2, Brown 19, Vaughn 25, Markovic 4, Spyridonidis 3, Bavcic 1, Zaras 9, Benas 2, Kolovis.
Apollon Patras: Ross 19, Argyropoulos 7, Daniel 20, Wilson 10, Lianos 2, Petrovic 11, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Niforas, Zafeiris, Milutinovic 14, Hot.

Aris beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 23rd day

Aris hosted and defeated Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 23rd day. It was the first game after Athinaiou left the club for Italy. Aris was good at three pointers in the first half and allowed Panelefsiniakos to score only 9 points in the second quarter. Antonis Asimakopoulos had 3/3 three pointers in the first half while Panelefsiniakos had only 2/10 three pointers. Panelefsiniakos counter attacked in the third quarter and lowered the difference to three points, 40-37, but that was all. In the last quarter Aris controlled and won the game. Perfect game for Antonis Asimakopoulos with 16 points, 4/4 three pointers and 7 rebounds. Alexander Vezenkov had 8 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists. For Panelefsiniakos Kyles had 13 points and Mouhammad Faye 6 points and 12 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 17-15, 35-24, 58-47, 75-61.

Aris: Bochoridis 6, Hunt, Pelekanos 6, Gikas 9, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos 16, Poulianitis, Charisis 2, Laretzakis 14, Vezenkov 8, Sarikopoulos 6, Mourtos 8.
Panelefsiniakos: Nikou, Papamakarios 5, Kyles 13, Dimakos, Jones, Faye 6, Fisher 2, Melissaratos 8, Turner 7, Uzas 12, Mantzaris 8, Avramidis.

Barcelona beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16

Barcelona continue its winning record and beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16. Panathinaikos was leading the score in the first quarter, was following Barcelona in the second quarter but couldn't follow in the second half and lost by 22 points. Alejandro Abrines, Erazem Lorbek and Ante Tomic were the top players of Barcelona. For Panathinaikos only the captain Dimitris Diamantidis had two digits score and ranking. Panathinaikos now needs to win Unicaja Malaga in Athens for the forthcoming day of Euroleague in order to qualify in the next round.
Quarters' scores: 14-15, 42-32, 64-46, 84-62.

Barcelona: Pullen 8, Dorsey 5, Sada 2, Huertas 4, Abrines 15, Navarro 8, Papanikolaou 6, Oleson 3, Lorbek 15, Lampe 4, Nachbar 3, Tomic 11.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 6, Curry 2, Batiste 7, Fotsis 3, Ukic 13, Lasme 9, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 11, Gist 9, Maciulis 2, Wright.

Greek Basket League 23rd day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 23rd day fixtures and results

Saturday 29th March 2014
16:00 KAOD - Apollon Patras 81-83
16:00 Aris - Panelefsiniakos 75-61
17:00 Ilisiakos - Ikaros Chalkidas 79-71
Sunday 30th March 2014
15:00 Aries Trikala - Olympiacos 70-84
16:00 Nea Kifisia - Rethymno Aegean 84-76
Monday 31st March 2014
18:00 Panionios - PAOK 95-92 (83-83)
19:15 Panathinaikos - Kolossos Rodou 102-69

Olympiacos beat Malaga for Euroleague Top 16

Olympiacos beat Malaga for Euroleague Top 16 for second time after the victory in Piraeus Greece. The captain Vasilis Spanoulis returned with 20 points and Mat Lojeski helped with 18 points. Vangelis Mantzaris had 2 points but 9 assists and no turnovers, while Brent Petway had 9 points and 7 rebounds. A victory after consecutive defeats for Euroleague winners and now they are back in track.
Quarters' scores: 18-28, 34-41, 50-63, 63-80

Malaga: Todorovic, Sabonis 2, Urtasun 13, Calloway 2, Suarez 8, Granger 6, Vazquez 6, Engiran, Toolson 4, Kuzminskas 2, Dragic 10, Stimac 10.
Olympiacos: Petway 9, Shermandini 6, Dunston 7, Spanoulis 20, Papapetrou 8, Sloukas 6, Simmons 2, Mantzaris 2, Kavvadas 2, Lojeski 18.

Kolossos Rodou and Nestoras Kommatos part ways

Kolossos Rodou and Nestoras Kommatos part ways. Kommatos started this season with Aries Trikala but released the veteran player in November. Kolossos Rodou announced that Nestoras Kommatos will not continue with the team due to personal problems.

Guaros de Lara signed Jamario Moon

Jamario Moon will continue his career in the Liga Profesional de Baloncesto of Venezuela with Guaros de Lara. Olympiacos and Moon parted ways only two months after the two sides agreed terms. Guaros de Lara is currently at the sixth place of the League and in the most recent game the team lost by Gigantes de Guayana by 65-71.

Tony Crocker had a knee injury and surgery

Tony Crocker of Nea Kifisia AENK had a knee surgery. Crocker is the top scorer of Nea Kifisia but couldn't play for the past two weeks due to an injury of meniscus. The medical team of AENK decided that Crocker should have a surgery now so that he will be ready for the play offs.

Aris and Giannis Athinaiou part ways

Aris announced that parted ways with Giannis Athinaiou. Aris didn't want to release the player but Athinaiou wanted to continue his career in Italy with Armani Milano. In this season Athinaiou played 22 games with Aris and had 13,4 points, 3,3 assists and 2,5 rebounds in average per game.

Greece U18 - U17 friendly game

In a friendly game that took place in Megara, Greece, between the U18 and U17 Greek National Teams the first won by 76-58. Greece U18 was formed with players born in 1996 and 1997 while Greece U17 was formed with players born in 1997.

Greece U18 (Papatheodorou): Toliopoulos Koniaris 3, Oikonomopoulos 5(1), Mitoglou 8, Tsampouris 2, Skoulidas 8, Kottas 14, Mpillis  7(1), Stamatis 9, Papagiannis 10, Charalampopoulos 10.
Greece U17 (Papanikolaou): Psyhidis 2, Ntouzidis 8(2), Kamarianos 9(1), Diplaros 11(1), Alexandropoulos 2, Pefanis 7(1), Karras 6, Karampelas 2, Fragiadakis 5, Chondrogiannis 3(1), Kalogeras 3

Tomorrow Greece U18 will play a friendly game against Ethnikos Piraeus. Greece U18 is training for European U18 Championship that will take place in Konya, Turkey between 24th July and 3rd August 2014. Greece U17 is training for World U17 Championship that will take place in UAE between 8th and 16th August 2014.

Olympiacos beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 22nd day

Olympiacos hosted and beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Olympiacos played without Vasilis Spanoulis, Giorgos Printezis and Stratos Peperoglou. Panelefsiniakos was following the score for more than a quarter but the half time finished with 8 points difference. In the second half the difference was broadening and reached 30 points in the end. The young Giannis Papapetrou was the top scorer of Olympiacos and the highlight of the game. Olympiacos had 30/37 free throws but only 4/17 three pointers. Panelefsiniakos made 22 turnovers. For Panelefsiniakos Kyles had 14 points and 4 rebounds, Nikou had 2 points and 7 assists, Mouhammad Faye had 14 points and 5 rebounds. For Olympiacos Bryant Dunston had 13 points and 5 rebounds, Giannis Papapetrou had 17 points and 6 rebounds, Matt Lojeski had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores: 20-17, 44-32, 72-47, 94-64.

Olympiacos: Petway 4, Dunston 13, Christodoulou 3, Papapetrou 17, Sloukas 10, Collins 2, Simmons 7, Lojeski 12, Agravanis 6, Mantzaris 9, Kavvadas 8, Katsivelis 3.
Panelefsiniakos:  Nikou 2, Papamakarios 7, Kyles 14, Jones 7, Magounis, Faye 14, Fisher 5, Melissaratos 2, Turner 3, Uzas 5, Mantzaris 5, Avramidis.

Rethymno Aegean beat KAOD for Greek League 22nd day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated KAOD for Greek Basket League 22nd day. KAOD had won Rethymno Aegean twice in Drama, with the last victory being the first round game, but has never won in Rethymno. The home team was much better than KAOD in the first half when the difference reached 16 points. KAOD reacted in the second half and lowered the difference but couldn't do anything better but to lose by 5 points. Rethymno Aegean won and covered the difference of one point that lost in the first round game. Kenny Gabriel was the top scorer of the game with another double double, 26 points, 10 rebounds and 2 steals. Callistus Eziukwu had 8 points, 7 rebounds and Justin Hurtt had 15 points and 5 rebounds. For KAOD J'Covan Brown had 24 points and 4 rebounds but with 1/7 three pointers. Edin Bavčić had 8 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-14, 43-27, 58-46, 77-72

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 15, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 6, Aggelopoulos, Wright 6, Kalampokis 7, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 8, Drca 9, Gabriel 26.
KAOD: Slaftsakis, Jones 12, Stiggers 7, Brown 24, Vaughn 4, Markovic, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 8, Zaras 13, Benas 4, Kolovis.

Ikaros Chalkidas lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 22nd day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 22nd day. In 9 games between the two teams, Ikaros Chalkidas had only one victory back in 2012-2013 regular season. This was the 100th game for Ikaros in the Greek Basket League but most of them were as Ikaros Kallitheas, before the name and home change. Panathinaikos had a small lead in the first quarter but the half time finished with equal score, 42-42. In the second half Panathinaikos wanted to end the game and with a 13-0 run, with three pointers by Antonis Fotsis and Mike Bramos, created a two digits difference. Ikaros Chalkidas, with Ivan Aska scoring 4 points in a row, lowered the difference to 9 points but Panathinaikos has started to roll. Panathinaikos broadened the difference to 21 points in the last quarter and won a game that Ikaros Chalkidas was competitive for one half time. High accuracy for Panathinaikos that had 12/29 three pointers, 18/29 field goals and 13/16 free throws. Ikaros Chalkidas collected 28 rebounds, 12 less than Panathinaikos. Dimitris Diamantidis played 20 minutes but didn't score since he had 0/3 three pointers. Roko Leni Ukić had 11 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. Mike Bramos was the top scorer of Panathinaikos with 16 points and 4/5 three pointers, looking in a great shape. Antonis Fotsis also had 4/5 three pointers with 12 points and 5 rebounds. For Ikaros Chalkidas Ivan Aska had 14 points, 7 rebounds and Giannis Gagaloudis 15 points. Anthony Roberson had 12 points, 5 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals.
Quarters' scores: 19-22, 42-42, 53-68, 64-85.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 12, Woodall 1, Aska 14, Manolopoulos 8, Sutton 4, Gagaloudis 15, Spanos 5, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 5, Bempis, Persidis.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 16, Curry 5, Fotsis 12, Ukić 11, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis 2, Diamantidis, Pappas 10, Giankovits 8, Maciulis 5, Wright 6.

PAOK beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 22nd day

PAOK hosted and defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Nea Kifisia had won the first round game by 9 points. PAOK played without Mark Payne and Nea Kifisia without Tony Crocker. PAOK started better and was leading the score for three quarters but Nea Kifisia managed to balance the game and equalize it in the end. The game went to extra time where PAOK won by nine points. Great game by Kostas Charalampidis who scored 29 points. DJ Cooper had 6 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Double double for the veteran Michalis Kakiouzis who had 12 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. Nikos Liakopoulos had 17 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds. PAOK seems to secure the fourth position in the regular season.
Quarters' scores: 24-21, 45-36, 59-52, 74-74. Extra time: 92-83

PAOK: Cooper 6, Charalampidis 29, Tsochlas 4, Tsairelis 14, Dedas 5, Margaritis 13, Kalles, Bogris 12, Kaselakis 9, Liapis.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 13, Liakopoulos 17, Sioutis 6, Psathas 3, Garrett 12, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 4, Tsaldaris, Adegboye 8, Kakiouzis 12, Barlos 8.

Apollon Patras lost by Aries Trikala for Greek League 22nd day

Apollon Patras hosted Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 22nd day. In the first round game Trikala won by 3 points Apollon Patras in the first game between two teams for the Greek League. Apollon Patras was better in the first half, with high accuracy in both field gols and three pointers, while Aries Trikala had 2/12 three pointers. Aries Trikala with Mario Matalon improved in the third quarter lowered the difference to 5 points, 50-45. Fourth quarter started again with a goal foul by Matalon which lowered the difference to 2 points. Apollon Patras replied with a 5-0 run and then Trikala's coach was charged with a technical foul. That technical foul worked as a shock for Aries Trikala that made a 14-0 run with Mike Porrini and Patrick Ewing and took the lead of the score. Stefan Perunicic with two three pointers secured the victory for his team and Mario Matalon gave his team a two digits difference. This was the first away victory for Aries Trikala. For Apollon Patras Jeremiah Wilson had 20 points, 10 rebounds and Lenny Daniel 8 points and 10 rebounds. For Aries Trikala Stefan Perunicic and Patrick Ewing Jr had 14 points each, Chris Evans 13 points and Marios Matalon 11 points. Patrick Ewing Jr made another double double since he collected 11 rebounds too while Chris Evans had 8 rebounds and 3 assists.
Quarters' scores: 21-16, 40-28, 50-45, 67-74

Apollon Patras: Ross 10, Argyropoulos 1, Kaperonis, Daniel 8, Wilson 20, Lianos 7, Petrovic 6, Pelekoudas, Niforas, Zafeiris 1, Milutinovic 11, Hot 3.
Aries Trikala: Evans 13, Perunicic 14, Ewing 14, Giannakidis, Petrovic, Porrini 7, Sapp 5, Deligiannis 7, Matalon 11, Fountas, Panos 1, Nikolopoulos 2. 

Kolossos Rodou beat Panionios for Greek League 22nd day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and defeated Panionios for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Kolossos and Panionios have played 20 games for Greek League and Panionios counts 5 wins in a row in total of 12 wins. Kolossos Rodou dominated first half when Panionios was poor in field goals (~30%). In the third quarter Panionios only maanged to lower the difference to 9 points but was still bad in field goals. The home team won the fourth quarter and broadened the difference of its victory to 11 points, 75-64. Bryan Hopkins, Mladen Pantić and Kostas Kakaroudis debuted with Kolossos Rodou in the Greek League. Hopkins didn't score, Kakaroudis had 5 points, 2 rebounds and Pantić had 5 points and 2 rebounds. Aggelos Tsamis was the best player of the home team with 17 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. Taylor Smith had 10 points and 7 rebounds. For Panionios Errick McCollum was the top player with 26 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists but was alone.
Quarters' scores: 20-14, 38-28, 57-48, 75-64.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 3, Car 8, Matsamas, Georgalis 8, Hopkins, Smith 10, Stefanidis 10, Tsamis 17, Kakaroudis 7, Pantić 5, Danas, Nadjfeji 7.
Panionios: McCollum 26, Duvnjak, Carter 12, Milbourne 6, Athanasoulas 2, Batis, Skordilis, Langford 8, Michel, Simtsak 4, Kyritsis, Saloustros 6.

Ilisiakos lost by Aris for Greek League 22nd day

Ilisiakos hosted Aris for Greek Basket League 22nd day. Iliakos and Aris had played 11 games for Greek Basket League and Aris have won all of them. Ilisiakos started good and was leading the score with 9-7 before Aris made a 2-10 run and finish first quarter with score 11-17. In the second quarter Ilisiakos scored only 9 points and finished the first half with 20 points, a very poor game. In the first half Ilisiakos had 6/10 free throws, 4/26 field goals and 2/8 three pointers. Ilisiakos was missing the shots and Aris was collecting the rebounds with total 32 in the first half against 19 of Ilisiakos. In the second half Ilisiakos started with a 11-3 run and finished with partial quarter score 24-12 and one point lead, 44-43. Last quarter started with Ilisiakos leading the score but the home team blacked out and didn't score for 9 minutes(!!). Aris made a 14-0 run and took back the lead and won the game. Ilisiakos will be relegated in the second division but was fighting in most games, this game was just very bad for the team. The team didn't score for 9 minutes in the fourth quarter and scored 7 points total in the last minute. With 13/50 field goals and 4/20 three pointers from Ilisiakos Aris had the chance to collect 54 rebounds. Aris was also bad in three pointers with 3/22 but had 19/34 field goals. Cheikh Mbodj collected 12 rebounds but had only 2 points by free throws and 0/5 field goals. For Ilisiakos only Stelios Ioannou with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 steals was positive. For Aris Michalis Pelekanos and Giannis Athinaiou had 17 points each. Alexander Vezenkov collected 12 rebounds and had 8 points while Asimakopoulos collected 10 rebounds without scoring a point.
Quarters' scores: 11-17, 20-31, 44-43, 51-63.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 14, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 5, Chatzis, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 14, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 2, Petrovic 4, Pigram 12.
Aris: Bochoridis 3, Pelekanos 17, Gikas 7, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 8, Sarikopoulos 1, Mourtos 4, Athinaiou 17.

Kolossos Rodou signed Bryan Hopkins

Kolossos Rodou signed Bryan Hopkins. The third addition for Kolossos Rodou this week, after Plantic and Kakaroudis. The 30 years old American point guard was playing in Israel for Maccabi Rishon. Second player from Maccabi Rishon that came to Greece this season, after Lazeric Jones of KAOD. Before Israel Hopkins was in Belgium for Antwerp and Liege, and before that in Ukraine for Halychyna.

Panathinaikos beat Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague TOP 16

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Fenerbahçe Ülker for Euroleague TOP 16. This was the first game that Obradović played in OAKA Athens as coach of the opponent team, after he left Panathinaikos. Fenerbahçe Ülker won the first game in Istanbul by five points, 77-72, and has also won Olympiacos for the TOP 16  Fenerbahçe started better the game and was leading the score 12-19 in the first quarter, that finished with score 16-19. Panathinaikos balanced the game in the second quarter and the leading of score was changing sides. Half time finished with Panathinaikos leading the score by 4 points, 41-37, with a goal foul scored by Dimitris Diamantidis. Panathinaikos collected 6 more rebounds in the first half but also made 3 more turnovers. In the fist half Zach Wright had 10 points and Mike Batiste 5 rebounds. In the second half Fenerbahçe made a 6-0 run since Panathinaikos didn't score in the first 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Dimitris Diamantidis with a three pointer scored for Panathinaikos and took back the lead in score. Mike Bramos with another three pointer made the score 50-45. Bramos had 4/4 three pointers and 1/1 field goals up to that point. With six consecutive points by Antonis Fotsis Panathinaikos finished third quarter with a lead of 9 points, 58-49. In the fourth quarter Bramos scored his 5th three pointer (5/5 up to that point) and gave his team a lead of 12 points and with his sixth three pointer (6/6) Panathinaikos reached the highest difference +15 (66-51). Fenerbahçe tried to approach Panathinaikos but Dimitris Diamantidis with free throws and Mike Bramos with three pointers secured the victory for Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos won by 9 points and covered the difference of the first game. For Panathinaikos Mike Bramos was the top scorer with 23 points (7/8 three pointers, 1/1 field goals, 4 rebounds). Dimitris Diamantidis had 15 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 11 fouls drawn. Antonis Fotsis had 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-19, 41-37, 58-49, 76-67.

Respect from the fans... Zeljko Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/Ll96WIkRkV
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos 23, Curry, Batiste 2, Fotsis 10, Ukic 8, Lasme 1, Mavrokefalidis 2, Diamantidis 15, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 5, Wright 10.
Fenerbahçe Ülker: McCalebb 6, Jackson 7, Onan 7, Bjelica 9, Mahmutoglu, Kleiza 9, Turkyilmaz, Sekulic 2, Savas, Zoric 4, Bogdanovic 10, Preldzic13.

Željko Obradović returns to Athens

Željko Obradović returns to Athens for the first time as the opponent coach of Panathinaikos. Obradović was the head coach of Panathinaikos from 1999 to 2012 and won 11 Greek Championships, 7 Greek Cups and 5 Euroleague titles with the team. Panathinaikos' current head coach Fragiskos Alvertis was Panathinaikos' captain when Obradović was the coach and they had a special relationship.

Familiar faces... Obradovic and Alvertis meet at OAKA before tomorrow's game @euroleague pic.twitter.com/oZW3GIJCky
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 19, 2014

Mike Batiste and Zeljko Obradovic... A lot of things to talk about! @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/byhNKb45yZ
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 19, 2014

Respect from the fans... Zeljko Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/Ll96WIkRkV
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

Obradovic moved by the fans' reception at OAKA @Euroleague #paobc pic.twitter.com/Ke7rj3eBoL
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

A big part of Panathinaikos' history on the floor, minutes before the tip off... Alvertis and Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/85gpOQAPa2
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

Moments gathered in just one glance.... From @paobcgr to Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/GbQZhT02Oe
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

His jersey.... And more gifts... Just for Zeljko Obradovic @Euroleague pic.twitter.com/IfEJvfrKyN
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 20, 2014

Giorgos Printezis was playing with a broken rib

Giorgos Printezis missed couple games with Olympiacos because he was complaining about pain in his back. After medical exams the doctors found that Printezis has a broken rib and was playing with it for about two months. Printezis will probably won't play in the forthcoming Euroleague game with Olympiacos in order to recover.

Kolossos Rodou signed Mladen Pantić

Kolossos Rodou signed Mladen Pantić. This is the third time Pantić plays in Greece, after Kavala BC and Ikaros Kallitheas. The 31 years old Serbian had won the Serbian National Cup two times with FMP Železnik. This season Pantić was playing for KK Borac Čačak in the Serbian League.

Kolossos Rodou parted ways with Bambale Osby

Kolossos Rodou parted ways with Bambale Osby. Osby played 34 with Kolossos Rodou in Greek Basket League and had 9,9 points and 5 rebounds in average per game. Osby will continue his career in Lithuanian League for Siauliai BC.

PAOK presented Korać Cup tribute shirt

PAOK presented the Korać Cup tribute shirt that the team will wear in the forthcoming game against Nea Kifisia. PAOK became the first Greek team to win the Korać Cup in 1994 against Trieste and with this shirt will celebrate the 20 years anniversary.

Chris Evans named MVP of 21st day

Chris Evans named MVP of 21st day for his performance against Rethymno Aegean. Evans scored 25 points (6/10 field goals, 3/7 three pointers, 4/5 free throws), collected 12 rebounds, served 1 assist and made two steals in 35 minutes. This is the first day MVP title for Evans and the third for Aries Trikala in the season, after two day MVP titles for Patrick Ewing Junior.

Panathinaikos beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 21st day

Panathinaikos hosted Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 21st day. Panathinaikos was counting 11 victories in 11 games against Ilisiakos, a team that is fighting to avoid relegation. Ilisiakos played without DJ Stephens, a big loss for the team. First quarter was a game between the first and the last team of the league. Without tight defense Panathinaikos had 4/6 three pointers. The game was like a training for Panathinaikos and the coach Fragiskos Alvertis made his debut as coach in the Greek League. Diamantidis and Maciulis didn't play so that they will rest for Euroleague games. With 12/28 three pointers Panathinaikos played open against Ilisiakos that approached to 5 points couple minutes before the end but Nikos Pappas secured the victory for his team. Mike Bramos had 17 points, Antonis Fotsis 11 points and 9 rebounds, Nikos Pappas 16 points. For Ilisiakos Courtney Pigram had 14 points, Cheikh Mbodj 12 points and 7 rebounds, Savvas Tzougarakis 12 points and the veteran Nikos Chatzis 8 points and 7 assists.
Quarters' scores: 26-19, 46-35, 67-52, 83-77.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 17, Fotsis 11, Ukic 10, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis, Pappas 16, Giankovits 7, Diamantakos, Maciulis, Wright 8.
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 5, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 9, Chatzis 8, Zoumpos 7, Dorkofikis, Vavatsikos, Ioannou 4, Tzougarakis 12, Mbodj 12, Petrovic 6, Pigram 14.

Ilisiakos and DJ Stephens part ways

Ilisiakos and DJ Stephens part ways. The American left Athens on Friday and is searching a new contract in USA. DJ Stephens had a good season but Ilisiakos was in the bottom of the league table and will probably relegate to the second division. In 18 games Stephens had an average of 9,78 points and 8,83 rebounds per game. DJ Stephens left Greek Basket League while he was second in rebounds (159), first in blocks (40) and fourth in turnovers (64). DJ Stephens will probably continue his career in Milwaukee Bucks.

Aris lost by Olympiacos for Greek League 21st day

Aris hosted Olympiacos for Greek Basket League 21st day. Olympiacos was playing once more without the captain Vasilis Spanoulis and Giorgos Printezis. Olympiacos was counting 20 consecutive victories against Aris. Olympiacos was taking a short lead that Aris was covering in the first half. In the second quarter Aris made a 9-2 run and finished the first half leading the score by 4 points, 40-36. In the tight third quarter Olympiacos was approaching Aris to 1-2 points but the home team managed to reply and keep the difference between 2 and 4 points. Aris took a lead of 5 points in the fourth quarter but Olympiacos replied with a 5-0 run and equalized the score, 56-56 and 58-58. After many missed shots for both teams Bryant Dunston scored four consecutive points and gave his team the lead, 58-62, two minutes before the end. Alexander Vezenkov and Zisis Sarikopoulos didn't score and Lefteris Bochoridis scored only one free throw, 59-62. Bryant Dunston scored again and gave his team the victory in a difficult game. Aris was leading the score and controlling the game for more than 35 minutes but in the end Bryant Dunston scored six consecutive points that were crucial. For Aris Alexander Vezenkov had 15 points, 9 rebounds and Kostas Charisis had 6 points and 9 rebounds. For Olympiacos Vangelis Mantzaris had 7 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and Bryant Dunston 17 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 18-17, 40-36, 52-48, 59-64.

Aris: Bochoridis 8, Pelekanos 9, Gikas 6, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 15, Sarikopoulos 2, Mourtos 8, Athinaiou 5.
Olympiacos: Petway 5, Dunston 17, Perperoglou 2, Papapetrou 3, Sloukas 8, Collins 2, Simmons 1, Lojeski 15, Agravanis, Mantzaris 7, Kavvadas 4, Christodoulou.

Greek Basket League 22nd day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 22nd day fixtures and results

Saturday 22 March 2014
16:00 Kolossos Rodou - Panionios 75-64
16:00 Ilisiakos - Aris 51-63
17:00 Apollon Patras - Aries Trikala 67-74
18:00 PAOK - Nea Kifisia 92-83 (73-73)
Sunday 23 March 2014
15:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Panathinaikos 64-85
16:00 Rethymno Aegean - KAOD 77-72
19:15 Olympiacos - Panelefsiniakos 94-64

Nea Kifisia beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek League 21st day

Nea Kifisia hosted and defeated Kolossos Rodou for Greek Basket League 21st day. Kolossos won the first round game in Rodos island by three points, but now Kolossos is fighting to avoid relegation while Nea Kifisia is in play offs position. First quarter was balanced but in the second quarter Nea Kifisia created a difference of 9 points. Nea Kifisia had 5/12 three pointers in the first half, while Kolossos Rodou had 2/8. Kolossos Rodou started better in the second half and with a 2-7 run managed to lower the difference but at the end of the third quarter the difference was back to 9 points, 63-54. Again in the last quarter the visitors tried to win the game but Nea Kifisia found solutions and won the game plus covered the difference of the first round game. Top scorers for Nea Kifisia Giannis Psathas and Ogo Adegboye with 14 points each. Giannis Psathas also had 8 rebounds and 5 steals. The veteran Michalis Kakiouzis helped with 11 points and 7 rebounds and Saša Vasiljević didn't score but served 9 assists. For Kolossos Rodou Marko Car had 19 points with 5/5 three pointers, Nontas Papantoniou 12 points and in his debut Kostas Kakaroudis had 12 points. Taylor Smith and Osby Bambale had 9 rebounds each.
Quarters' scores: 21-19, 47-38, 63-54, 80-74.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Liakopoulos 6, Kompodietas, Sioutis, Psathas 14, Garrett 12, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 5, Tsaldaris 8, Adegboye 14, Kakiouzis 11, Barlos 10.
Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 12, Car 19, Matsamas, Georgalis 2, Smith 6, Stefanidis 7, Simpson 6, Tsamis, Kakaroudis 12, Osby 10, Danas, Nadjfeji.

Aries Trikala beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek League 21st day

Aries Trikala hosted and defeated Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basket League 21st day. Rethymno Aegean had won the first round game by only two points. Aries Trikala had 9/10 field goals in the first quarter while Rethymno Aegean had 1/7 so the home team was leading the score with 26-14. First half finished with Aries Trikala leading by 12 points and Rethmyno Aegean having poor accuracy in shots, 6/19 field goals and 4/12 three pointers. Rethymno improved in three pointers in the second half but was still poor in field goals. Besides first quarter all the rest were balanced with partial scores: 14-14, 17-17, 18-18, so the first quarter was the crucial quarter of the game. Chris Evans was the top player of the game and finished the game with a double double 25 points, 12 rebounds. Mike Porrini had 2 points but 5 rebounds and 9 assists. Christos Deligiannis had 11 points with 4/5 field gols and 3/3 free throws. For Rethymno Aegean Damir Latovic had 13 points, Derek Wright 11 points and 8 assists. Kenny Gabriel made another double double with 10 points and 16 rebounds, collecting 14 out of 27 defensive rebounds of his team.
Quarters' scores: 26-14, 40-28, 57-45, 75-63.

Aries Trikala: Evans 25, Perunicic 3, Ewing 12, Giannakidis 6, Petrovic 6, Spanos 8, Porrini 2, Sap, Deligiannis 11, Matalon 2, Fountas, Nikolopoulos.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 8, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras, Aggelopoulos, Wright 11, Kalampokis 7, Kanonidis 3, Sinis 3, Latovic 13, Eziukwu, Drča 8, Gabriel 10.

KAOD beat PAOK for Greek League 21st day

KAOD hosted and beat PAOK for Greek Basket League 21st day. KAOD had won all three home games against PAOK in the previous three seasons and PAOK had won all four games in Thessaloniki, making it a couple where the home teams always win. KAOD was leading the score in the first half since PAOK had 1/10 three pointers and home team only 2 turnovers. PAOK improved in the second half, lowered the difference in the third quarter and balanced the game in the end so the game went to extra time. In the extra time PAOK started with a 4-0 run but KAOD replied with a 9-0 run and lead the score till the end. PAOK was really bad at three pointers with only 3/20 while KAOD had 11/26. For PAOK Vangelis Margaritis was the top scorer with 15 points (4/4 field goals, 7/7 free throws), 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Giorgos Dedas and Mark Payne had 12 points each, Giorgos Bogris and Kostas Charalampidis 10 points each. DJ Cooper had 8 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists but also 0/6 three pointers and 4 turnovers. For KAOD J'Covan Brown had 24 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Nikola Marković had only 4 points but also 12 rebounds and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores: 22-18, 43-25, 61-58, 74-74. Extra time: 90-85.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 6, Jones 14, Stiggers 13, Brown 24, Vaughn 10, Markovic 4, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 14, Zaras 3, Benas 2, Kolovis.
PAOK: Payne 12, Cooper 8, Charalampidis 10, Tsochlas 6, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 7, Dedas 12, Margaritis 15, Kalles 2, Bogris 10, Kaselakis 3, Liapis.

Panelefsiniakos lost by Apollon Patras for Greek League 21st day

Panelefsiniakos hosted Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League 21st day. Apollon Patras have won all three games between the two teams, but with very short difference, 3 points, 2 points and by only one point in the first round game. Each team had one quarter in the first half, with the home team winning the first and Apollon Patras balancing the game in the second. Like in the first half, Panelefsiniakos won the third quarter and Apollon Patras balanced the game in the fourth quarter so the game had one extra time. One minute before the end Panelefsiniakos was ahead in score by ten points, 61-51, but Apollon Patras made a 10-0 run with seven points from Jeremiah Wilson and the first successful  three pointer from the captain Nikos Argyropoulos. Apollon Patras won for fourth time Panelefsiniakos with tight score but this time needed an extra time. Mouhammad Faye and Lenny Daniel were the top scorers of their teams. Jeremiah Wilson, Lenny Daniel and Rob Jones made a double double each, first game of the season with three double doubles! Daniel had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Wilson 17 points and 13 rebounds, Jones 14 points and 12 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 23-13, 35-35, 51-46, 61-61. Extra time: 66-73

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 2, Papamakarios 8, Kyles 7, Jones 14, Magounis, Faye 19, Fisher 2, Melissaratos, Turner 12, Uzas, Mantzaris, Avramidis 2.
Apollon Patras: Argyropoulos 12, Kaperonis, Daniel 20, Wilson 17, Lianos 3, Petrovic 10, Pelekoudas, Niforas, Zafeiris, Milutinovic 3, Hot 2, Bolds 6.

Panionios beat Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek League 21st day

Panionios hosted and defeated Ikaros Chalkidas for Greek Basket League 21st day. Panionios won the first game between the two teams and also have won both games in the previous season. Panionios dominated the first quarter when took a lead of 16 points and the first half the difference was at twenty points. Ikaros Chalkidas with 1/11 three pointers and 8 turnovers in first half couldn't ask for more. The difference was getting bigger each quarter and the final difference was 35 points for Panionios. Ikaros Chalkidas finished the game with 1/16 three pointers, 15 turnovers and 11/23 free throws. Panionios had 5 players with two digits score and 11 players scoring. Errick McCollum had 15 points, Marc Carter 13 points and 5 rebounds, Vassilis Simtsak 9 points and 9 rebounds. For Ikaros Chalkidas Dominique Sutton made a double double with 22 points and 13 rebounds. Ivan Aska added 12 more points and 3 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 23-7, 43-23, 67-35, 89-54

Panionios: McCollum 15, Stamatis 5, Motsenigos 2, Duvnjak 11, Carter 13, Milbourne 10, Athanasoulas 4, Batis 4, Skordilis 4, Michel, Simtsak 9, Kyritsis 12.
Ikaros Chalkidas: Woodall 2, Aska 12, Manolopoulos 5, Sutton 22, Gagaloudis 5, Spanos 2, Toliopoulos 4, Vougioukas 2, Demertzis, Richards, Bempis, Persidis.

Barcelona beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16

Barcelona hosted and beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16. Olympiacos that was playing without Vasilis Spanoulis and Giorgos Printezis had little chances against Barcelona in Spain. Ante Tomic finished the game with a double double, 14 points and 11 rebounds. Kostas Papanikolaou scored only 3 points against his previous team. Bareclona had 10/26 three pointers against 5/19 that Olympiacos had. Stratos Perperoglou finished the game without score, having 0/4 field goals and 0/4 three pointers. Only Bryant Dunston and Brent Petway finished the game with two digits score for Olympiacos. Bad game for Euroleague back to back winners that will struggle to make it in the next round.
Quarters' scores: 18-13, 33-27, 55-44, 70-58.

Barcelona: Pullen 8, Dorsey, Sada, Huertas 7, Abrines 3, Navarro 7, Todorovic, Papanikolaou 3, Oleson 15, Lorbek 13, Nachbar, Tomic 14.
Olympiacos: Petway 17, Shermandini 4, Dunston 18, Perperoglou, Sloukas 4, Collins 2, Simmons, Mantzaris 4, Katsivelis 2, Lojeski 7.

Panathinaikos defeated Anadolu Efes for Euroleague Top 16

Panathinaikos defeated Anadolu Efes in Istanbul for Euroleague Top 16. With Fragiskos Alvertis debuting as coach Panathinaikos managed to win a very tight game where the score was 60-65 after one extra time. In a game where both teams had Greek coaches the defense was the key. Anadolu Efes seemed to control the game and win in the end but Jonas Mačiulis scored a very crucial three pointer 14 seconds before the end and equalized the score leading the game to extra time. Zoran Planinic with 15 points and Antonis Fotsis with 14 points were the top scorers of their teams. Stephane Lasme made a double double with 11 points and 12 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 10-11, 26-28, 42-44, 54-54. Extra time: 60-65

Anadolu Efes: Osman, Vasileiadis 10, Batuk 6, Erden 1, Gonlum 9, Kilicli, Savanovic 6, Gordon 6, Planinic 15, Bjelica 7.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 5, Batiste 6, Fotsis 14, Ukic 7, Lasme 11,Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 7, Pappas, Giankovits, Mačiulis 8, Wright 7.

Ilisiakos released Eric Devendorf

Ilisiakos and Eric Devendorf part ways after only one month. Eric Devendorf played only two games with Ilisiakos in the Greek Basket League, scored 8,5 points in average and collected only one rebound. Devendorf has already agreed terms with Super City Rangers of the New Zealand NBL.

Kolossos Rodou signed Kostas Kakaroudis

Kolossos Rodou signed Kostas Kakaroudis. The 30 years old Greek center returns to Greek Basket League after less than a year in Romanian League with CS Energia Rovinari. Kakaroudis started his career in Aris where he won the FIBA EuroCup Challenge Champion. Then he moved to second division A2 for KAOD, Ionikos Lamias, Kavala, Rethymno, Olympiada Patron, Ikaroi Serron, with one year contract in each team. Finally Kakaroudis returned to KAOD while the team was playing in the Greek Basket League.

First statements of Fragiskos Alvertis as coach of Panathinaikos

Fragiskos Alvertis made his first statements as the new coach of Panathinaikos and Dimitris Diamantidis commented that changing coaches in something usual at sports.

 

 

Greek U17 friendly game against Apollon in Athens

The Greek U17 Basketball team will play a friendly game against Apollon in Athens this Friday 14 March. The coach of the team Dimitris Papanikolaou announced the team roster for this game:
Mouratos (Agioi Anargyroi), Haihakalis (Doukas), Alexandropoulos (Palaio Faliro), Milentijevic (Aigaleo), Kamarianos (Palaio Faliro), Iordanoglou (Ikaros), Glykopoulos (Amyntas), Skoulidas (Peristeri), Maragidis (Marousi), Karampelas (Panionios), Sotirakis (Ionikos Nikaias), Charalampopoulos (Panathinaikos), Pefanis (Proteas Voulas), Ntouzidis (Ikaros), Skordas (Ikaros), Kalogerias (Olympiacos), Karras (Doukas).

Vasilis Spanoulis won't play against Barcelona

Vasilis Spanoulis won't play against Barcelona due to his knee injury. This will be the third Euroleague game in a row that Spanoulis will miss due to his injury, after Fenerbahce and Armani Milano.

Kolossos Rodou announced coach Michalis Koutalianos

Kolossos Rodou announced that, since Dimitris Priftis left the club for Panathinaikos, the new coach of the team is Michalis Koutalianos with his assistant Stathis Neratzakis. Koutalianos was the assistant coach and now will be the head coach of Kolossos. That is the third coach change of Kolossos Rodou in this season.

Panathinaikos announced coaches Alvertis and Priftis

Panathinaikos announced its new technical team. The head coach will be Panathinaikos' legend Fragiskos Alvertis. Assistant coaches will be Sotiris Manolopoulos, who stays in his position, and Dimitris Priftis. Dimitris Priftis was the coach of Kolossos Rodou since November when he replaced Vasilis Fragias. This is the second Greek coach for Panathinaikos, after Želimir Obradović left the club.

The new technical staff of Panathinaikos on the court: Priftis, Manolopoulos, Alvertis, Pappas pic.twitter.com/lxQ8sFhM8I
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 11, 2014

Panelefsiniakos signed Rokas Ūzas

Panelefsiniakos signed Rokas Ūzas. Panelefsiniakos signed the 26 years old Lithuanian forward for the remaining six games of the season. Ūzas was playing in Switzerland for Starwings Basilea and had 15.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in average. Ūzas has also played for KB Bashkimi in Kosovo and LSU-Atletas, Nevėžis Kėdainiai, Sakalai Vilnius in Lithuania. 

Greek Basket League 21st day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 21st day fixtures and results

Saturday 15th March 2014
16:00 Panionios - Ikaros Chalkidas 89-54
16:00 Panelefsiniakos - Apollon Patras 66-73 (normal time 61-61)
17:00 KAOD - PAOK 90-85 (normal time 74-74)
17:00 Aries Trikala - Rethymno Aegean 75-63
Sunday 16th March 2014
16:00 Nea Kifisia - Kolossos Rodou 80-74
Monday 17th March 2014
18:00 Aris - Olympiacos 59-64
19:15 Panathinaikos - Ilisiakos 83-77

21st Greek All Star Game results

21st Greek All Star Game results. 

Wheelchair Basketball Game
Nikos Kazantzakis team - Nikos Ksylouris team 47-60
MVP of the Game: Angelos Dimpitouzis (Megas Alexandros 94, Nikos Ksylouris team)
Three pointers contest winner: Atnan Hamadi (Dodekanesos, Nikos Ksylouris team)

Greek Stars - Rest of the World 123-122
Quarters' scores: 33-36, 68-70, 98-101, 123-122
Greek Stars (Markopoulos - Kalafatakis):Mantzaris , Pappas24 (6), Bramos 18, Athinaiou 17(5), Perperoglou, Fotsis 7(1), Printezis, Mavrokefalidis 15, Diamantidis 5(1), Tsiarelis 12(2), Kavvadas 8, Bogris 17.
Rest of the World (Bartzokas -Sfairopoulos): McCollum 14(4), Brown 11(3), Ewing 16, Cooper 6(11 assists), Maciulis 12, Lojeski13(3), Aska 2, Dunston 2, Lasme 17(3), Gist 2, Stephens 19(1), Hurtt 18(2).

MVP of the game: Nikos Pappas (Panathinaikos, Greek Stars) 

Dunk Contest
Winner: Kenny Gabriel (Rethymno Aegean)
Runner up: DJ Stephens (Ilisiakos)

Three pointers Contest
Winner: Saša Vasiljević (Nea Kifisia)
Runer up: Giorgos Dedas (PAOK)

Photos from players' and teams' tweets:

End of WheelChair Basketball All Star Game! Congrats to all pic.twitter.com/sWWNNrtMog
— Christos Lazarou (@ChristosLazarou) March 9, 2014

Selfie me Agorinooo #AllStarGame #kleo pic.twitter.com/JJSBTkzcz5
— John Sinis (@Jsinis31) March 9, 2014

The best family!!!! (Pappas was giving an interview at the same time with the MVP trophy) pic.twitter.com/PUAH39S0gu
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) March 9, 2014

21st Greek All Star Game Young players results

21st Greek All Star Game Young Players Results. Rising Stars team won Young Stars team although Giorgos Diamantakos making a double double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. In the three pointers contest there was a big surprise since Panagiotis Zanidakis, a student from local High School of Nea Kydonia, won the constest with 14 successful three pointers in the final against Lefteris Bochoridis and Vasilis Toliopoulos.
Vasilis Charalampopoulos of Panathinaikos won the dunk contest against Kostas Mitoglou of Aris in the final.

Rising Stars -Young Stars 82-77. 
RISING STARS (Manolopoulos- Mykoniatis): Bochoridis 10, Houhoumis, Toliopoulos 4, Christodoulou 8, Fakopoulidis 2, Skandalis 3(1), Bempis 5(1), Liapis 3, Mitoglou 8, Kottas 6, Charalampopoulos 5, Agravanis 20(1), Oikonomopoulos 3(1), Zanidakis.
YOUNG STARS (Marmarinos - Papahatzis ): Slaftsakis 4, Stamatis 11(2), Koniaris 3(1), Poulianitis 2, Rekouniotis 10, Papapetrou 17, Spyropoulos 2, Spyridonidis 7(1), Hatzinikolas 2, Diamantakos 15 (10 rebounds), Vezenkov 7(1), Persidis , Ksylakis 2.

Young players three pointers contest
Winner: Panagiotis Zanidakis (High School of Nea Kydonias Chanion) 14 3p
Runner Up: Lefteris Bochoridis (Aris) 13 3p.
Vasilis Toliopoulos (Ikaros Chalkidas)12 3p.

Young players dunk contest
Winner: Vasilis Charalampopoulos (Panathinaikos) 44/48 points
Runner Up: Kostas Mitoglou (Aris) 43/48 points

Panathinaikos fired coach Argyris Pedoulakis

"Panathinaikos BC announced the end of the colaboration with the coach of the team, Argyris Pedoulakis. The president of Panathinaikos BC, Dimitris Giannakopoulos, wishes to thank mr Pedoulakis, for taking over the team in a tough period and managed to lead it to three titles. He will always be a distinguished member of Panathinaikos' family. The team will practice on Monday under Fragkiskos Alvertis' guidance."

Argyris Pedoulakis signed a two years contract with Panathinaikos in June 2012 and won the Greek Cup of 2013, 2014 and the Greek Basket League of 2013 with a sweep 3-0 against Olympiacos. In his first season with Panathinaikos Pedoulakis was nominated Greek League Coach of the Year for the third time in his career.

21st Greek All Star Game Chania 7-8 March 2014

The 21st Greek All Star Game will take place in Chania 7-8 March 2014, at Kladisou hall.
The Greek Stars team will play against The rest of the world team.
In young players Rising Stars team will play against Young Stars team.
In wheelchair basketball  Nikos Kazantzakis team will play against Nikos Ksylouris team.
Team rosters follow:

GREEK STARS TEAM
Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos)
Mike Bramos (Panathinaikos)
Nikos Pappas (Panathinaikos)
Antonis Fotsis (Panathinaikos)
Loukas Mavrokefalidis (Panathinaikos)
Vangelis Mantzaris (Olympiacos)
Stratos Perperoglou (Olympiacos)
Giorgos Printezis (Olympiacos)
Vasilis Kavvadas (Olympiacos)
Michalis Tsairelis (PAOK)
Giorgos Bogris (PAOK)
Giannis Athinaiou (Aris) 
Coaches: Argyris Pedoulakis (Panathinaikos), Soulis Markopoulos (PAOK)

REST OF THE WORLD TEAM
Jonas Maciulis (Panathinaikos)
James Gist (Panathinaikos)
Stephane Lasme (Panathinaikos)
Matt Lojeski (Olympiacos)
Bryant Dunston (Olympiacos)
Errick McCollum (Panionios)
DJ Cooper (PAOK
Justin Hurtt (Rethymno Aegean)
J'Covan Brown (KAOD)
Tony Crocker (Nea Kifisia)
Patrick Ewing Junior (Aries Trikala)
Ivan Aska (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Coaches: Giorgos Bartzokas (Olympiacos), Giannis Sfairopoulos (Panionios)


RISING STARS – YOUNG STARS Game

RISING STARS
Andreas Christodoulou (Olympiacos)
Dimitris Agravanis (Olympiacos)
Thomas Kottas (PAOK)
Michalis Liapis (PAOK)
Lefteris Bochoridis (Aris)
Vasilis Toliopoulos (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Vangelis Bempis (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Konstantinos Fakopoulidis (Ilisiakos)
Nikos Houhoumis (Panelefsiniakos)
Vasilis Charalampopoulos (Panathinaikos)
Kostas Mitoglou (Aris)
Andreas Oikonomopoulos (Apollon Patras)
Orestis Skandalis (4th High School of Chania)
Coaches : Sotiris Manolopoulos (Panathinaikos), Stavros Mykoniatis (Rethymno Aegean)

YOUNG STARS 
Dimitris Stamatis (Panionios)
Alexis Spyridonidis  (KAOD)
Antonis Koniaris (PAOK)
Stelios Poulianitis (Aris)
Giannis Hatzinikolas (Nea Kifisia)
Nikos Persidis (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Ioannis Papapetrou (Olympiacos)
Diamantis Slaftsakis (KAOD)
Anastasios Spyropoulos (Panionios)
Andreas Rekouniotis (Panelefsiniakos)
Alexander Vezenkov (Aris)
Giorgos Diamantakos (Panathinaikos)
Manolis Ksylakis (4th High School of Chania)
Coaches: Christos Marmarinos (Olympiacos), Thanasis Papahatzis (Panionios)

Teams GREEK STARS & RISING STARS
MANAGERS: Panagiotis Kontos (Panelefsiniakos), Dimitris Karvelas (Nea Kifisia)
Physiotherapists : Markos Tzortzinakis (Rethymno Aegean), Antonis Tzeremes (Aries Trikala)
Trainer: Mitsiopoulos Vasilis (Rethymno Aegean)
Assistant: Dermanis Paris (Panathinaikos)

Teams REST OF THE WORLD & YOUNG STARS
MANAGERS: Kyrgiakos Papadopoulos (KAOD), Giorgos Koumoulos (Rethymno Aegean)
Physiotherapists : Antonis Karantonis (Nea Kifisia), Manolis Papamanolis (Panelefsiniakos)
Trainer: Thanasis Kamariotis (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Assistant: Giannis Nikitakis (Aris)

Doctors: Dimitris Tsoukas - Stavros Alevrogiannis

Constests

Three pointers contest
Errick McCollum (Panionios)
J'Covan Brown (KAOD)
Saša Vasiljević (Nea Kifisia)
Marc Carter (Panionios)
Giorgos Dedas (PAOK)
Alexander Vezenkov (Aris)
Charalampos Samothrakis (AE Psyhikou - A2 division)
Winner of Young players three pointers contests

Dunk contest
DJ Stephens (Ilisiakos)
James Gist (Panathinaikos)
Trevis Simpson (Kolossos Rodou)
Lenny Daniel (Apollon Patras)
Kenny Gabriel (Rethymno Aegean)
Tony Crocker (Nea Kifisia)
Alexandros Sigounas (Ermis Lagada, A2 division)
Winner of Young players dunk contest

Young players three pointers contest
Vasilis Toliopoulos (Ikaros Chalkidas)
Dimitris Stamatis (Panionios)
Michalis Liapis (PAOK)
Nikos Houhoumis (Panelefsiniakos)
Lefteris Bochoridis (Aris)
Giannis Hatzinikolas (Nea Kifisia)
Panagiotis Zanidakis (High School of Nea Kydonias Chanion)

Young players dunk contest
Kostas Mitoglou (Aris)
Ioannis Papapetrou (Olympiacos)
Diamantis Slaftsakis (KAOD)
Anastasios Spyropoulos (Panionios)
Dimitris Agravanis (Olympiacos)
Vasilis Charalampopoulos (Panathinaikos)


ALL STAR GAME ΟΠΑΠ OSEKK- Wheelchair Basketball Game

Team: Nikos Kazantzakis
Aleksandros Feretos (ASKA Marousi)
Giorgos Tsaousidis (Marousi)
Michalis Hatzidimitriou (Dodekanesos)
Manolis Stylianakis (Dodekanesos)
Nikolaos Tsintaris (Aris)
Panagiotis Triantafyllou (Marousi)
Giorgos Klarakis (Aetoi Cretes)
Christos Martsakis (Aetoi Cretes)
Dimitrios Vlassis (PASKA)
Giorgos Makris (PASKA)
Coach: Gioras Vaios

Team: Nikos Ksylouris
Panagiotis Filippou (GS Trikalon Asteras)
Giannis Kokolakis (Aetoi Cretes)
Angelos Dimpitouzis (Megas Alexandros 94)
Panagiotis Zoes (Pontiakos)
Vasilis Konstantinopoulos (PASKA)
Kostas Chronis (Marousi)
Panagiotis Sgardelis (PASKA)
Giorgos Skordylis (Aetoi Cretes)
Vangelis Pleksidas (Thessalos)
Atnan Hamadi (Dodekanesos)
Coach: Chronis Kostas

Panelefsiniakos signed David Kyles

Panelefsiniakos signed David Kyles. The 23 years old American guard was playing in Czech Republic for Svitavy and had 6.8 points, 5 rebounds and 2.3 assists in average per game. In the past Kyles was playing in Slovakia for Inter Bratislava, Czech Republic for Astrum Levice and Slovakia for BK Levicki Patrioti. Kyles is Wichita State University graduate. Kyles will debut against Apollon Patras.

Ikaros Chalkidas signed Giannis Demertzis

Ikaros Chalkidas signed Giannis Demertzis. The 31 years old Greek play maker will try to help Ikaros in the last six games of the Greek Basket League. Demertzis started his professional career with Mantoulidis and then played for PAOK, Iraklis, Maroussi and Kavala in Greece. This season Demertzis was playing in Cyrpus for Keravnos.

Olympiacos lost by Armani Milano for Euroleague Top 16

Olympiacos hosted and lost byArmani Milano for Euroleague Top 16. Olympiacos without Vasilis Spanoulis but with Giorgi Shermandini available was better in the first quarter but before the half time Armani Milano managed to take the lead in score. Keith Langford had 13 points and Stratos Perperoglou 15 points in the first half. From that point on the game was tight with Armani Milano having a small lead of 2-3 points and Olympiacos trying to counter attack. In the last minutes Olympiacos with Stratos Perperoglou took the lead by 81-80 but then Bryant Dunston lost two free throws and Keith Langford scored a three pointer making the score 81-85. Olympiacos lost a game without the captain Vasilis Spanoulis and will fight to promote in the next round, since the second place is probably lost for the Euroleague winners. 22 points for Stratos Perperoglou, 20 points for Keith Langford and 16 points with 9 rebounds for Giorgos Printezis.
Quarters' scores: 29-23, 47-50, 63-65, 86-88.

Olympiacos: Petway 3, Shermandini 9, Dunston 11, Perperoglou 22, Papapetrou, Sloukas 13, Collins, Simmons, Printezis 16, Mantzaris 5, Katsivelis, Lojeski 7.
Armani Milano: Gentile, Cerelli 3, Melli 2, Hackett 9, Kangur 7, Langford 20, Samuels 9, Wallace 8, Lawal 13, Moss 6, Jerrells 11.

Errick McCollum named MVP of 20th day

Errick McCollum named MVP of 20th day of the Greek Basket League for his performance against Ilisiakos. In 33 minutes McCollum scored 27 points (7/8 free throws, 4/8 field goals, 4/7 three pointers), 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals and 9 fouls drawn.

Rethymno Aegean beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 20th day

Rethymno Aegean hosted and defeated Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 20th day. Rethymno Aegean won for third consecutive home game and has avoided relegation, heading only up now. Callistus Eziukwu with 15 points and 9 rebounds, Luka Drča with 13 points and Derek Wright with 13 points and 10 rebounds were the best players for Rethymno Aegean. Kenny Gabriel scored 6 points and collected 10 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos Mouhammad Faye had 26 points and 9 rebounds, Rob Jones had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores: 18-17, 39-30, 64-44, 85-69.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 12, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 2, Aggelopoulos 2, Wright 13, Kalampokis 14, Kanonidis 2, Sinis, Latovic 6, Eziekwu 15, Drča 13, Gabriel 6.
Panelefsiniakos: Papamakarios 2, Arapis, Dimakos, Jones 16, Magounis, Faye 26, Fisher 5, Melissaratos, Turner 9, Mantzaris 9, Avramidis 2.

Ilisiakos lost by Panionios for Greek League 20th day

Ilisiakos lost by Panionios for Greek Basket League 20th day. Panionios had lost 3 consecutive games and wanted this victory but Ilisiakos wanted it more since the team stands alone in the bottom of the league table. Panionios took an early lead in the first quarter but Ilisiakos with 33-17 partial score in the second quarter turned the game upside down. Third quarter was more balanced and in the end Panionios with Errick McCollum and Landon Milbourne won a tight game. For Panionios Errick McCollum had 27 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 steals. Landon Milbourne had 22 points and Christos Saloustros 12 points and 6 rebounds. For Ilisiakos Courtney Pigram had 28 points, 5 rebounds but also 8 turnovers. DJ Stephens had 8 points and 7 rebounds. Ilisiakos is now the team that will most likely relegate to second division.
Quarters' scores: 11-21, 44-38, 59-59, 73-87

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 15, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 2, Devendorf 5, Chatzis 2, Dorkofikis, Stephens 8, Ioannou 7, Tzougarakis, Mbodj 6, Petrovic, Pigram 28.
Panionios: McCollum 27, Stamatis, Duvnjak, Carter 12, Milbourne 22, Athanasoulas, Batis 3, Skordilis 1, Michel, Simtsak 10, Kyritsis, Saloustros 12.

Ikaros Chalkidas beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 20th day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted and beat Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 20th day. Nea Kifisia started better in the game but Ikaros Chalkidas was fighting to avoid relegation. Nea Kifisia won first and third quarter but Ikaros Chalkidas with partial score 31-20 in the last quarter won a crucial game. Giannis Gagaloudis was impressive with 28 points, 8 assists and 2 steals. Ivan Aska was close to another double double but collected 9 rebounds and scored 16 points. Ryan Richards had 11 points with 3/5 three pointers. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker had 26 points, Tony Woods 10 points and 8 rebounds, Nikos Barlos had 14 points and 8 rebounds. Crucial victory for Ikaros Chalkidas who struggles to avoid relegation.
Quarters' scores: 20-23, 40-33, 52-61, 83-81

Ikaros Chalkidas: Strnad, Roberson 9, Woodall 10, Aska 16, Manolopoulos, Sutton 9, Gagaloudis 28, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 11, Persidis.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic, Liakopoulos 4, Crocker 26, Kompodietas, Sioutis, Psathas 2, Garrett 2, Woods 10, Tsaldaris 10, Adegboye 7, Kakiouzis 6, Barlos 14.

Kolossos Rodou lost by KAOD for Greek League 20th day

Kolossos Rodou lost by KAOD for Greek Basket League 20th day. KAOD was better and Kolossos Rodou only managed to balance the game in the end of the third quarter. Kolossos Rodou took the lead with 66-64 in the fourth quarter but the home team wasn't focused and lost three consecutive offenses and the game. J'Covan Brown with 27 points and Edin Bavčić with 25 points were the leaders of KAOD. Nontas Papantoniou with 13 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists was the top player of the home team with Taylor Smith adding 13 more points. Tenth victory for KAOD who reached sixth place in the league table.
Quarters' scores: 21-26, 34-43, 51-52, 70-76

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 13, Car 3, Matsamas, Georgalis 4, Kommatos 10, Smith 13, Stefanidis 6, Simpson 7, Tsamis 7, Osby 7, Danas, Nadjfeji.
KAOD:  Slaftsakis, Jones 10, Stiggers, Brown 27, Vaughn, Markovic 6, Spyridonidis, Bavčić 25, Zaras 8, Benas, Kolovis.

DJ Cooper and Nikos Liakopoulos named MVPs of the 19th day

DJ Cooper and Nikos Liakopoulos shared the title of the MVP of the 19th day. Both players were rated with 28 points in the ranking system. DJ Cooper had 6 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals against Panelefsiniakos. Nikos Liakopoulos had 17 points (6/6 free throws, 4/4 field goals, 1/2 three pointers), 5 rebounds and 8 assists against Ilisiakos.

PAOK beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 20th day

PAOK hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 20th day. PAOK had a great first quarter when the score was 21-8 in 8th minute and preserved the difference till the end of the game. Although PAOK was very poor in three pointers, only 2/18, with 15 rebounds more and 36/40 free throws managed to win the game. Impressive number of fouls drawn and free throws shot for PAOK. Giorgos Bogris made a double double after weeks with 17 points and 14 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 5 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists. Kostas Charalampidis was the top scorer of PAOK with 19 points, 12/12 free throws. Chris Evans has 16 points and 5 steals for Aries Trikala. Patrick Ewing Junior, Stefan Perunicic and Marios Matalon had two digit score too.
Quarters' scores: 23-12, 49-38, 56-49, 82-77

PAOK: Payne 9, Cooper 5, Charalampidis 19, Tsochlas 3, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 12, Dedas 2, Margaritis 8, Kalles, Bogris 17, Kaselakis 7, Liapis. 
Aries Trikala: Evans 16, Perunicic 11, Ewing 10, Giannakidis 2, Petrovic 4, Porrini 6, Sapp 5, Deligiannis, Matalon 13, Fountas, Panos 5, Nikolopoulos 5.

Apollon Patras lost by Olympiacos for Greek League 20th day

Apollon Patras lost by Olympiacos for Greek Basket League 20th day. Olympiacos played without Vasilis Spanoulis and after having released Jamario Moon. For one more game Lenny Daniel for Apollon Patras and Matt Lojeski were the top scorers of their teams. Olympiacos collected 43 rebounds, had 18 assists but also made 21 turnovers so the score didn't reach two digits.
Quarters' scores: 12-23, 26-37, 47-61, 67-72.

Apollon Patras: Ross 8, Argyropoulos 10, Kaperonis, Daniel 24, Wilson 11, Lianos 4, Petrovic, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Zafeiris, Milutinovic 6, Bolds 4.
Olympiacos: Dunston 9, Perperoglou 7, Papapetrou, Sloukas 7, Collins, Simmons 2, Lojeski 16, Printezis 11, Agravanis 2, Mantzaris 14, Kavvadas 8, Christodoulou.

Panathinaikos defeated Aris for Greek League 20th day

Panathinaikos hosted defeated Aris for Greek Basket League 20th day. This was the 17th consecutive victory of Panathinaikos against Aris for the Greek Basket League. Aris was competitive only for one quarter when the team from Thessaloniki was leading the score by 10-14. Aris was poor in three pointers with 2/14 and collected 11 rebounds less than Panathinaikos. Zack Wright was the top scorer of Panathinaikos with 15 points. All twelve players available were used in the game by coach Argyris Pedoulakis, including the young Greek players Vasilis Charalampopoulos and Giorgos Diamantakos. For Aris Alexander Vezenkov was the top player with 13 points and 6 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-16, 44-28, 60-40, 71-59.

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 11, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 3, Gist 4, Pappas 5,  Giankovits 9, Diamantakos, Maciulis 2, Wright 15.
Aris: Bochoridis, Gikas 2, Asimakopoulos 7, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 13, Sarikopoulos 12, Mourtos 8, Athinaiou 7, Mitoglou 4.

Olympiacos released Jamario Moon

Olympiacos released Jamario Moon. The 34 years old American left Olympiacos after less than two months. His place in the Greek Basket League will be filled by Brent Petway.