Dominique Sutton named MVP of 25th day

Dominique Sutton named MVP of the Greek Basket League 25th day for his performance against Kolossos Rodou. This was the second time in this season that Sutton is named MVP of the day, after second day against Apollon Patras. Sutton played almost 37 minutes against Kolossos and had 14 points with 4/4 field goals, 1/2 triples, 3/5 free throws, 4 rebounds, 4 steals, 1 assist and 1 turnover.

Panathinaikos beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek League 25th day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Rethymno Aegean for Greek Basket League 25th day. Panathinaikos was tired and disappointed by its elimination from Euroleague final four. Rethmyno Aegean tried and managed to compete the champions for three quarters and Dimitris Diamantidis had to play and play good in order to win the game. Diamantidis came from the bench and had 23 points and 6 assists in 27 minutes. Antonis Fotsis had 12 points and 8 rebounds, Stephane Lasme had 15 points and 4 rebounds. For Rethmyno Aegean Kenny Gabriel made another double double with 16 points and 15 rebounds but had 4/12 field goals and 6 turnovers. Callistus Eziukwu had 8 points,6 rebounds and Fanis Koumpouras had 11 points, 4 assists but also 5 turnovers. Rethymno's captain Avraam Kallinikidis had 4 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal.
Quarters' scores: 19-20, 38-32, 56-52, 76-61.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 5, Curry 5, Fotsis 12, Ukic 2, Lasme 15, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 23, Gist 4, Pappas 4, Giankovits, Maciulis, Wright 2.
Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 3, Kallinikidis 4, Koumpouras 11, Aggelopoulos, Kalampokis 12, Kanonidis, Sinis 7, Latovic, Eziukwu 8, Drca, Gabriel 16.

Olympiacos beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 25th day

Olympiacos beat Nea Kifisia in Kifisia for Greek Basket League 25th day. For Olympiacos Spanoulis, Dunston and Sloukas were not available and Nea Kifisia managed to lead the score in the first quarter and when Olympiacos took the lead the home team didn't allow them to broaden the difference. Good game for Nikos Barlos who had 19 points and 6 rebounds. Michalis Kakiouzis had 8 points and 6 rebounds. Giorgos Bartzokas used all 12 players available but the young Christodoulou and Katsivelis didn't score. Giorgos Printezis had 15 points and 7 rebounds, Mardy Collins had 7 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, Giorgi Shermandini had 13 points and 5 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-17, 31-38, 48-57, 67-75.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 5, Liakopoulos 7, Kompodietas 5, Sioutis 3, Psathas 6, Peterson 2, Petrodimopoulos 6, Woods 4, Tsaldaris 2, Adegboye, Kakiouzis 8, Barlos 19.
Olympiacos: Petway 3, Shermandini 13, Perperoglou 10, Papapetrou 6, Christodoulou, Collins 7, Simmons 5, Lojeski 4, Printezis 15, Mantzaris 4, Kavvadas 8, Katsivelis.

Nea Kifisia signed Ray Reese

Nea Kifisia entered the play offs and signed Ray Reese to help the team. Reese was playing in Switzerland for Monthey BC in this season. Earlier Reese was playing for Neuchatel and Rethymno Aegean in Greece. Reese started his pro career in NBA-D League with Los Angeles D. and then moved to Mexico for Tepic and Mineros P.

Ikaros Chalkidas beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek League 25th day

Ikaros Chalkidas hosted and beat Kolossos Rodou for Greek Basket League 25th day. Ikaros Chalkidas wanted the victory in order to have chances to avoid relegation. With that victory Ikaros Chalkidas is in the bottom of the league table with other two teams but Kolossos Rodou lost any chances to enter the play offs. For Ikaros Chalkidas Ivan Aska finished the game with 26 points and 9 rebounds while Dominique Sutton had 14 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and Giannis Gagaloudis had 17 points and 9 assists. For Kolossos Rodou Taylor Smith finished the game with a double double, 14 points and 12 rebounds, while Bryan Hopkins had 28 points with 6/7 field goals, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
Quarters' scores: 25-21, 42-43, 69-62, 96-88.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 15, Woodall 3, Aska 26, Sutton 14, Gagaloudis 17, Spanos 5, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Richards 16, Bempis, Douzidis, Persidis.
Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 5, Car 11, Matsamas, Georgalis, Hopkins 28, Smith 14, Stefanidis 2, Simpson 5, Kakaroudis 16, Pantic 2, Danas, Nadjfeji 5.

KAOD beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek League 25th day

KAOD hosted and beat Panelefsiniakos for Greek Basket League 25th day. Great victory for KAOD who will enter play offs for the first time while Panelefsiniakos stayed in the bottom of the league table. For KAOD Lazeric Jones had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists and Nikola Marković finished the game with a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. For Panelefsiniakos David Kyles made a double double with 19 points and 10 rebounds and Petros Melissaratos had 14 points. 
Quarters' scores: 23-12, 39-28, 54-44, 81-68.

KAOD: Slaftsakis, Jones 20, Stiggers 2, Brown 11, Vaughn 4, Markovic 16, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 7, Zaras 15, Benas 4, Kolovis 2.
Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 2, Papamakarios 3, Arapis 2, Kyles 19, Jones 13, Magounis, Fisher 5, Melissaratos 14, Turner 6, Uzas 2, Mantzaris 2, Avramidis.

Ilisiakos beat PAOK for Greek League 25th day

Ilisiakos hosted and beat PAOK for Greek Basket League 25th day. Ilisiakos is struggling to avoid relegation and against PAOK made a crucial victory. Panagiotis Kafkis, Nikos Chatzis and Giannis Vavatsikos were the best player of Ilisiakos while DJ Cooper and Giorgos Bogris played in their average performance for PAOK. Great victory for Ilisiakos but maybe too late to avoid relegation.
Quarters' scores: 22-19, 47-34, 55-53, 78-77.

Ilisiakos: Kafkis 15, Fakopoulidis, Chatzis 14, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 7, Nikopoulos, Vavatsikos 14, Ioannou 2, Tzougarakis 8, Mbodj 9, Pigram 9.
PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 11, Charalampidis 7, Tsochlas 9, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 9, Dedas 5, Margaritis 9, Kalles, Bogris 10, Kaselakis 9, Liapis.

Aris beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 25th day

Aris hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 25th day. Aries Trikala was competitive only for one quarter and with less than half the rebounds of Aris couldn't expect anything from the game. Aris collected 46 rebounds against 22 rebounds of Aries Trikala. Lefteris Bochoridis made a career record with 20 points, marking a great week for him with declaration for the NBA Draft.
Quarters' scores: 21-18, 46-28, 64-44, 88-57.

Aris: Bochoridis 20, Hunt 3, Pelekanos 11, Gikas 14, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos, Charisis 13, Laretzakis 5, Vezenkov 7, Sarikopoulos 7, Mourtos 8.
Aries Trikala: Evans 12, Perunicic 2, Ewing 6, Giannakidis 3, Petrovic 5, Porrini 13, Sapp, Deligiannis 9, Matalon, Fountas, Panos 4, Nikolopoulos 3.

Panionios beat Apollon Patras for Greek League 25th day

Panionios hosted and smashed Apollon Patras for Greek Basket League 25th day. After Easter break Apollon Patras had a bad game with two terrible quarters and Panionios won easily the game. With partial scores 35-15 in the first and 24-6 in the last quarter Panionios didn't face problems against Apollon Patras. Apollon had 2/24 triples while Panionios had 11/21. Jeremiah Wilson made a double double with 12 poitns and 10 rebounds but was the only positive player of Apollon Patras.
Quarters' scores: 31-15, 40-31, 55-41, 79-47.

Panionios: McCollum 10, Duvnjak 17, Carter 5, Milbourne 11, Athanasoulas 2, Batis 5, Skordilis, Langford 19, Michel, Simtsak 6, Kyritsis 2, Saloustros 2.
Apollon Patras: Ross 11, Argyropoulos 4, Daniel 10, Wilson 12, Lianos 2, Petrovic 5, Pelekoudas, Molfetas, Niforas, Zafeiris 2, Milutinovic, Hot 1.

Lefteris Bochoridis declared for the 2014 NBA Draft

Lefteris Bochoridis declared for the 2014 NBA Draft as his agent Nick Lotsos reported. Bochoridis is a young and promising Greek player who currently plays for Aris Thessaloniki, a club with great history but also great economic problems. This season Bochoridis has 6.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists in average per game. Bochoridis has played with the youth national teams for Greece and has been called to play with the men national team too.

Nea Kifisia signed Brandon Peterson

Nea Kifisia signed Brandon Peterson. Peterson will replace Darrius Garrett who was released earlier this month. Peterson is 2.04m high and plays in 5 and 4 positions. Before Nea Kifisia Peterson was playing in Sweden for Jamtland. and graduated from Arkansas state University in 2013.

PAOK beat Aries Trikala in friendly game

PAOK hosted and defeated Aries Trikala in a friendly game that took place in Thessaloniki during Easter break. The game lasted for 50 minutes so that both teams had the chance to try things. PAOK had a 17 points lead (40-23) in first half but the half time finished with equal score, 40-40. In third quarter Aries Trikala took the lead by 40-45 but PAOK balanced the game at 52-52 and then took back the lead and won the game by 83-71. In the fifth extra quarter PAOK used bench players but kept its lead and the final score after 50 minutes was 99-80. 

Aris player Larentzakis being evicted

The club of Aris Thessaloniki is in a terrible economical situation. The club was not allowed to make transfers in this season but the problems are getting worse. Giannoulis Larentzakis, a young promising Greek player, has being evicted due to unpaid rents. Larentzakis has moved to Zisis Sarikopoulos's house and will stay with his teammate until the end of the season.

CKSA Moscow beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Play Offs round 2

CKSA Moscow hosted and defeated Panathinaikos for Euroleague Play Offs round 2. The second victory of CSKA was much easier than the first one. The 51 points that Panathinaikos scored was a record low for the team in Euroleague. Another negative record for Panathinaikos in the Euroleague broke in this game with the 26 points difference that the team lost. For Panathinaikos only Ukić had two digits score while Dimitris Diamantidis didn't score in the game. Sonny Weems scored 23 points and Micov scored 12 points. Victor Khryapa had 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 points. CSKA Moscow doubled its victories against Panathinaikos for Euroleague Play Offs.
Quarters' scores: 21-19, 39-25, 50-39, 77-51.

CSKA Moscow: Micov 12, Fridzon 7, Jackson 4,  Pargo 2, Krstic 10, Weems 23, Vorontsevich 9, Kaun 2, Khryapa 4, Hines 4.
Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos 4, Curry 2, Batiste 2, Fotsis 3, Ukić 15, Lasme 4, Mavrokefalidis 8, Diamantidis, Gist 6, Pappas, Maciulis 5, Wright 2.

Real Madrid beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Play Offs round 2

Real Madrid hosted and beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Play Offs round 2. Real Madrid doubled its victories against Olympiacos for Euroleague Play Offs and is one victory away from eliminating the Euroleague back to back champion. The former player of Olympiacos, Giannis Bourousis, was the best player with a double double, 19 points and 10 rebounds. Rudy Fernadez had 15 points and 6 rebounds. For Olympiacos Vasilis Spanoulis had 18 points and 5 rebounds, Bryant Dunston had 12 points and 9 rebounds and Matt Lojeski had 13 points. Next game in Piraeus Greece where Olympaicos will have to win two games in a row in order to play again in Madrid.
Quarters' scores: 30-23, 53-44, 70-62, 82-77.

Real Madrid: Fernandez 15, Barreiro, Martin, Reyes 8, Diez, Mirotic 14, Rodriquez 11, Darden 2, Llull 11, Bourousis 19, Slaughter 2, Mejri.
Olympiacos: Petway 12, Shermandini, Dunston 12, Spanoulis 18, Papapetrou 4, Sloukas 3, Collins 3, Simmons, Printezis 10, Mantzaris 2, Katsivelis, Lojeski 13.

CSKA beat Panathinaikos in overtime for Euroleague Play Offs round 1

CSKA Moscow hosted and beat Panathinaikos Athens for Euroleague Play Offs round 1. The home team was leading the game in the first half but Panathinaikos balanced the game and took the lead in the last quarter. Panathinaikos couldn't win the game and Diamantidis didn't score in the last offense so the game went to over time. In over time Panathinaikos didn't score again in the last offense and lost a tight game and the chance to break CSKA's advantage.
Quarters' scores: 21-14, 40-33, 58-56, 72-72. Over time: 77-74

CSKA Moscow: Micov 2, Fridzon 10, Jackson 5,  Pargo 1, Krstic 5, Weems 21, Vorontsevich, Kaun 1, Khryapa 17, Hines 15
Panathinaikos Athens:  Bramos, Curry 3, Batiste, Fotsis 6, Ukic 2, Lasme 14, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 10, Gist 9, Maciulis 14, Wright 12.

Real Madrid beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Play Offs round 1

Real Madrid hosted and beat Olympiacos for Euroleague Play Offs round 1. Real Madrid started better than Olympiacos and took the lead by 27-12 in the first quarter. Olympiacos lowered the difference with its captain and leader Vasilis Spanoulis but could only fight until the score 50-46. Real Madrid won the game by a broad difference and made the first step to qualify in the Final Four. For Real Madrid Rudy Fernadez had 20 points, Sergio Llull had 12 points and the ex-Olympiacos player Giannis Bourousis had 6 points and 7 rebounds. For Olympiacos Vasilis Spanoulis had 18 points but besides him only Giorgos Printezis also finished the game with two digits score.
Quarters' scores: 27-12, 48-41, 70-56, 88-71.

Real Madrid: Draper, Fernandez 20, Reyes 9, Diez 2, Mirotic 15, Rodriquez 12, Darden 7, Llull 12, Bourousis 6, Slaughter 2, Mejri 3.
Olympiacos: Petway 6, Shermandini 5, Dunston 6, Spanoulis 18, Perperoglou 2, Papapetrou 2, Sloukas 7, Simmons 8, Printezis 10, Mantzaris 5, Lojeski 2.

Nea Kifisia released Darrius Garrett

Nea Kifisia released Darrius Garrett. Nea Kifisia is the surprise team of the Greek Basket League 2013-2014 and Garrett is one of its key players, but the team decided to release the player due to a disciplinary offense. Garrett played 23 games with AENK in the Greek League and had 6.3 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.2 turnovers per game in average.

Greek League 25th day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 25th day fixtures and results

Thursday 24th April 2014
18:00 Panionios - Apollon Patras 79-47
18:00 KAOD - Panelefsiniakos 81-68
18:00 Ilisiakos - PAOK 78-77
18:00 Aris - Aries Trikala 88-57
18:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Kolossos Rodou 96-88
Tuesday 29th April 2014
17:00 Nea Kifisia - Olympiacos 67-75
19:15 Panathinaikos - Rethymno Aegean 76-61

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup Spain Group B Greece schedule

2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Spain
Group Sevilla. All games will take place at Palacio Municipal de Deportes San Pablo.
30 August 21:00 Greece - Senegal
31 August 21:00 Philippines- Greece
1 September 21:00 Puerto Rico - Greece
2 September Day off
3 September 21:00 Greece - Croatia
4 September 23:00 Argentina - Greece

Olympiacos beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16

Olympiacos hosted and defeated Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16. Both Greek teams had qualified in the next round but the winner would finish third and the loser fourth in the group. Olympiacos started with a 10-3 run but Panathinaikos replied with a 10-0 run and took the lead in score. With better defense Panathinaikos kept the difference in the second quarter that reached 10 points, 19-29, in the 15th minute. Matt Lojeski with four points in a row lowered the difference to six points. Panathinaikos with two goal-fouls created a difference of 11 points but Stratos Perperoglou was the last to score in the first half with a three pointer. Olympiacos was 8 points behind in the first half since the team had many missed three pointers, 3/13, and 2/6 free throws. 7 points for Matt Lojeski and Bryant Dunston  in the first half, while Brent Petway had 5 rebounds. For Panathinaikos Loukas Mavrokefalidis had 10 points in the first half. Diamantidis had 3 assists but no points in the first half and Spanoulis had 2 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist.
In the second half Panathinaikos started with 12 points lead, 29-41, but Olympiacos counter attacked and with a 12-0 run balanced the game, 41-41, in the 27th minute. With a free throw from Bryant Dunston Olympiacos took the lead, 42-41, after a long time but in the next play Dunston made his third foul and Loukas Mavrokefalidis balanced the game 42-42. Olympiacos improved in three pointers but with poor accuracy in the free throws couldn't maintain the lead. Fourth quarter started with a turnover by Spanoulis and a three pointer by Ramel Curry. Dimitris Diamantidis scored his first points with free throws in the 36th minute, giving his team six points lead, 56-62. Olympiacos missed two shots but took the offensive rebounds and with Kostas Sloukas scoring a three pointer lowered the difference to 3 points, 59-62. Dunston and Curry scored and missed one free throw each making the score 60-63. Mantzaris missed a three pointer, Bramos missed a two pointer before Kostas Sloukas equalized the score, 63-63. Diamantidis made his fifth turnover giving Olympiacos the advantage. Vasilis Spanoulis scored and made the score 65-63 just 23 seconds before the end. Loukas Mavrokefalidis with a dunk equalized the score for one more time with 4 seconds remaining. Vasilis Spanoulis scored a three pointer in the end and gave his team 3 points lead and only 0.8 seconds left for Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos made a turnover in the last ball, Sloukas made the steal and Olympiacos won by three points, 68-65.
Quarters' scores: 12-16, 29-37, 46-48, 68-65.

Olympiacos: Petway 7, Shermandini 2, Dunston 12, Spanoulis 9, Perperoglou 3, Papapetrou 5, Sloukas 12, Collins, Simmons, Mantzaris 11, Katsivelis, Lojeski 7.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 3, Curry 10, Batiste 4, Fotsis 5, Ukic 6, Lasme, Mavrokefalidis 17, Diamantidis 2, Gist 6, Pappas, Maciulis 4, Wright 8.

Taylor Smith named MVP of Greek League 24th day

Taylor Smith named MVP of Greek Basket League 24th day. Smith played 25 minutes in the game against Ilisiakos and had 17 points, 8/8 field goals, 1/6 free throws, collected 14 rebounds and made one steal. His performance was rated with 27 points in the League ranking system.

Olympiacos beat KAOD for Greek League 24th day

Olympiacos hosted and defeated KAOD for Greek Basket League 24th day. KAOD beat Olympiacos in the first round game and ruined any thoughts that Olympiacos players had to finish first in the regular season. In this game Olympiacos didn't face problems winning KAOD. The visitors had only 6 assists in the game. For the winners Bryant Dunston, Vangelis Mantzaris and Vasilis Kavvadas had 10 points each. Bryant Dunston also had 9 rebounds. For KAOD J'Covan Brown had 29 points, Lazeric Jones had 19 points and Julian Vaughn had 11 points and 9 rebounds. Nikola Markovic had 11 rebounds but was very poor at scoring with 2 points, 0/7 field goals, 0/4 three pointers and 2/6 free throws.
Quarters' scores: 22-18, 40-36, 60-52, 83-71.

Olympiacos: Petway 8, Dunston 10, Christodoulou, Papapetrou 7, Sloukas 7, Collins 14, Simmons 5, Lojeski 6, Agravanis 4, Mantzaris 10, Kavvadas 10, Katsivelis 2
KAOD: Slaftsakis 4, Jones 19, Stiggers 3, Brown 29, Vaughn 11, Markovic 2, Spyridonidis, Bavcic 3, Zaras, Benas.

PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League 24th day

PAOK lost by Panathinaikos for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Panathinaikos secured the first place in the regular season again after three years. Panathinaikos had only 4/17 three pointers, while PAOK had 10/21 three pointers, but the visitors were impressive in field goals with 30/43. Another highlight is that Panathinaikos finished the game with 10/10 free throws, Lasme and Wright had 4/4 free throws each and Ukic had 2/2. PAOK could only follow Panathinaikos in the first half. For the home team Giorgos Bogris was the top scorer and player with 14 points and 5 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. Besides Bogris the other two players of PAOK with two digits score were Greek, Michalis Tsairelis and Vangelis Margaritis. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme was the top scorer with 20 points, Dimitris Diamantidis had 10 points and 7 assists, Loukas Mavrokefalidis had 10 points without missing a shot (5/5 field goals) and 5 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 20-24, 31-45, 50-61, 71-82.

PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 9, Charalampidis 3, Tsochlas 2, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 10, Dedas 6, Margaritis 11, Kalles 3, Bogris 14, Kaselakis 5, Liapis.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 2, Curry 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 10, Lasme 20, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 10, Gist 4, Pappas, Giankovits, Maciulis 4, Wright 10.

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek League 24th day

Rethymno Aegean lost by Panionios for Greek Basket League 24th day. In a very tight game the maximum difference reached 7 points and Panionios won by only three points but with this victory secured the third position in the regular season. For Rethymno Aegean Justin Hurtt was the top scorer with19 points. Callistus Eziukwu had 14 points, 6 points and Luka Drča had 13 points and 7 rebounds. Kenny Gabriel had 9 rebounds but only 3 points. For the winners Errick McCollum had only 8 points so the top scorer was Giannis Athanasoulas had 14 points and 4 rebounds. Vasilis Simtsak had 9 rebounds, 5 rebounds and 2 steals.
Quarters' scores: 16-20, 35-37, 57-55, 64-67.

Rethymno Aegean: Hurtt 19, Kallinikidis, Koumpouras 3, Aggelopoulos 6, Wright, Kalampokis 5, Kanonidis, Sinis, Latovic, Eziukwu 14, Drča 13, Gabriel 3.
Panionios: McCollum 8, Duvnjak 6, Carter 10, Milbourne 13, Athanasoulas 14, Batis, Skordilis 2, Langford 7, Michel, Simtsak 5, Kyritsis, Saloustros 2.

Panelefsiniakos beat Aries Trikala for Greek League 24th day

Panelefsiniakos hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Greek Basket League 24th day. Panelefsiniakos wanted to win in order to avoid relegation and was more focused than Aries Trikala. In the first half Panelefsiniakos cleared the game. For the winners David Kyles had 20 points, Mouhammad Faye had 18 points and Thomas Nikou had 6 points and 11 assists. For Aries Trikala Chris Evans was the top scorer with 16 points, Christos Deligiannis had 13 points and Jessie Sapp had 10 points.
Quarters' scores: 22-13, 48-28,  75-55, 94-77.

Panelefsiniakos: Nikou 6, Papamakarios 7, Arapis 5, Kyles 20, Jones 6, Faye 18, Fisher 8, Melissaratos 1, Turner 10, Uzas, Mantzaris 8, Avramidis 5.
Aries Trikala: Evans 16, Perunicic 5, Ewing 9, Giannakidis 3, Petrovic 6, Lekakis, Porrini 4, Sapp 10, Deligiannis 13, Matalon 7, Panos 4, Nikolopoulos.

Kolossos Rodou beat Ilisiakos for Greek League 24th day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and beat Ilisiakos for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Kolossos avoided relegation while pushed Ilisiakos to its relegation. Kolossos Rodou had only 2/20 three pointers but also had 16 rebounds more than Ilisiakos. For the winners Taylor Smith was the best player with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Kostas Kakaroudis and Mladen Pantic were again positive with 13 and 10 points respectively. For Ilisiakos Courtney Pigram had 17 points and Cheikh Mbodj had 12 points.
Quarters' scores: 20-16, 39-31, 55-43, 72-60.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 7, Car, Matsamas, Georgalis 4, Hopkins 9, Smith 17, Stefanidis 5, Simpson, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 13, Pantic 10, Nadjfeji 5.
Ilisiakos: Kafkis 5, Fakopoulidis, Antonakis 2, Chatzis 2, Zoumpos, Dorkofikis 9, Nikopoulos, Ioannou 6, Tzougarakis 7, Mbodj 12, Pigram 17.

Ikaros Chalkidas lost by Aris for Greek League 24th day

Ikaros Chalkidas lost by Aris for Greek Basket League 24th day. With that victory Aris will enter the play offs in the sixth position and Ikaros Chalkidas will has to say goodbye to the first division. Aris had 11/25 three pointers, 10 more rebounds and 10 more assists than the home team. For the home team Ivan Aska had 20 points and 8 rebounds, Dominique Sutton and Giannis Gagaloudis had 17 points each. For the winners Michalis Pelekanos was the top scorer with 25 points, Alexander Vezenkov made a double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Kostas Charisis had 12 rebounds and 8 points.
Quarters' scores: 19-36, 33-52, 58-72, 77-88.

Ikaros Chalkidas: Roberson 8, Woodall 5, Aska 20, Manolopoulos 8, Sutton 17, Gagaloudis 17, Spanos, Toliopoulos, Vougioukas, Demertzis, Richards 2, Bempis.
Aris: Bochoridis 19, Hunt, Pelekanos 25, Gikas 8, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 14, Sarikopoulos 4, Mourtos 12. 

Apollon Patras beat Nea Kifisia for Greek League 24th day

Apollon Patras hosted and beat Nea Kifisia for Greek Basket League 24th day. Nea Kifisia was leading the score in the first half but Apollon Patras with good defense in the third quarter took the lead and won the game. With that victory Apollon Patras secured a place in the play offs. Apollon had only 3/17 three pointers but also made only 10 turnovers. Andreja Milutinović with 14 points were the top scorer for the winners. Jeremiah Wilson collected 12 rebounds and scored 8 points, while Roland Ross had 13 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals. For Nea Kifisia Dimitris Tsaldaris and Nikos Liakopoulos were the top scorers with 14 points each. Darrius Garrett had 8 points and 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 17-14, 29-36, 57-49, 75-67.

Apollon Patras: Ross 13, Argyropoulos 11, Daniel 11, Wilson 8, Lianos, Petrovic 9, Pelekoudas 4, Molfetas 2, Niforas, Zafeiris, Milutinović 14, Hot 3.
Nea Kifisia: Vasiljevic 9, Liakopoulos 14, Chatzinikolas, Sioutis 3, Psathas, Garrett 8, Petrodimopoulos, Woods 11, Tsaldaris 14, Adegboye 4, Kakiouzis 2, Barlos 2.

Anadolu Efes lost by Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16

Anadolu Efes hosted Olympiacos for Euroleague Top 16. Olympiacos had already qualified for the semifinals before the game but didn't want to lose it. Olympiacos had more rebounds, more assists and less turnovers in the first half. Anadolu Efes counter attacked in the third quarter and lowered the difference to two points, 48-50, but Olympiacos handled the game and kept the lead. The home team couldn't made another counter attack in the last quarter and Olympiacos won by 5 points. Both teams were good at three pointers, 10/25 for the home team and 9/20 for Olympiacos. For Anadolu Efes the Greek Kostas Vasileiadis and the ex Olympiacos player Jamon Gordon were the top scorers with 16 points each. For Olympiacos the captain Vasilis Spanoulis had 17 points, 4 assists and Bryant Dunston had 13 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 18-19, 32-43, 60-67, 78-83.

Anadolu Efes: Balbay, Osman 4, Vasileiadis 16, Batuk 8, Gonlum 7, Kilicli 2, Savanovic 3, Gordon 16, Planinic 8, Kosut, Bjelica 14.
Olympiacos: Petway 6, Shermadini 10, Dunston 13, Spanoulis 17, Papapetrou 5, Sloukas 7, Collins 4, Simmons 6, Mantzaris, Kavvadas 2, Katsivelis, Lojeski 13.

Panathinaikos beat Unicaja Malaga for Euroleague Top 16

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Unicaja Malaga in Athens for Euroleague Top 16. It was a do or die game with the Greens needing the victory to qualify to the next round. Unicaja Malaga took an early lead in score but Panathinaikos made a 5-0 and a 7-0 run, so the first quarter finished with the home team ahead by 7, 17-12. Second quarter was balanced with Malaga lowering the difference to 5 points by the end of the first half. Both teams were bad in three pointers in the first half, 2/10 for Panathinaikos and 2/13 for Malaga. The strong point for Malaga was the offensive rebounds, having 12 in the first half while Panathinaikos had 15 in total. Unicaja Malaga counter attacked in the third quarter and equalized the score in 24th minute, 37-37, but Panathinaikos replied with a 10-0 run and made the score 47-37. Third quarter finished with a three pointer by Loukas Mavrokefalidis that made the score 55-41. In the last quarter Panathinaikos created a difference of 17 points but Malaga with a run lowered the difference to 9 points since the home team was playing with the mind in clock. Panathinaikos won Unicaja Malaga by 69-60 and qualified to the semi-finals of Euroleague. Panathinaikos improved in three pointers and rebounds in the second half, while Malaga finished the game with 3/20 three pointers. For Panathinaikos 11 players scored, all except Giankovits, and Dimitris Diamantidis was the top scorer with 13 points.
Quarters' scores: 19-12, 33-28, 55-41, 69-60.

The captain ready for yet another assist @Euroleague @paobcgr-@unicajaCB pic.twitter.com/1OL7zLIOT3
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) April 3, 2014

Panathinaikos: Bramos 8, Curry 8, Batiste 3, Fotsis 4, Ukic 7, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis 3, Diamantidis 13, Gist 6, Giankovits, Maciulis 5, Wright 2.
Unicaja Malaga: Sabonis 7, Vidal, Urtasun 3, Calloway, Suarez 7, Granger 8, Vazquez 8, Toolson 6, Kuzminskas 2, Dragic 6, Caner-Medley 1, Stimac 12.

April fools news: Errick McCollum returns to Apollon Patras

Local newspaper of Patras, Peloponnisos, reported that Errick McCollum will leave Panionios due to economic problems and return to Apollon Patras. The article "reports" that McCollum won't play in the remaining games of the regular season, but will be available for the play offs. Nice one, since Panionios will finish third in the regular season while Apollon Patras will fight to enter the play offs. Besides teams' positions, McCollum had an impressive season and if the American leaves Panionios many Greek and foreign teams will try to sign him.

Stephane Lasme named MVP of Greek League 23rd day

Stephane Lasme named MVP of Greek League 23rd day. Lasme had 18 points, 9/13 field goals, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in 24 minutes against Kolossos Rodou. This is the second day that a player of Panathinaikos is named MVP after 16th day and James Gist.

Greek Basket League 24th day fixtures and results

Greek Basket League 24th day fixtures and results

Saturday 5th April 2014
16:00 Kolossos Rodou - Ilisiakos 72-60
16:00 Ikaros Chalkidas - Aris 77-88
16:00 Panelefsiniakos - Aries Trikala 94-77
16:00 Apollon Patras - Nea Kifisia 75-67
16:00 Rethymno Aegean - Panionios 64-67
Sunday 6th April 2014
16:00 PAOK - Panathinaikos 71-82
Monday 7th April 2014
19:15 Olympiacos - KAOD 83-71