DeMarcus Nelson got Serbian citizenship

DeMarcus Nelson got Serbian citizenship as his manager Misko Raznatovic announced on twitter. Nelson will probably won't play for Serbia National Team but will not count as an American for his new team Panathinaikos.

DeMarcus Nelson officially got Serbian citizenship!
— Misko4Raznatovic (@MiskoRaznatovic) July 30, 2014

Mario Matalon renewed with Aries Trikala

Mario Matalon renewed with Aries Trikala. The presence of Efthimis Rentzias in the technical team of Aries Trikala was of crucial importance for the Greek player to renew without second thoughts.

Pallacanestro Trapani signed Chris Evans

Pallacanestro Trapani signed Chris Evans. Evans had a great first professional season with Aries Trikala in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014. Evans finished the season being the top ranked player (460 points), second in steals (49), second in points scored (412 points scored) and fourth in rebounds (181). Evans also made a double double on 7th day vs PAOK, 11 points and 12 rebounds, on 10th day vs Olympiacos, 10 points and 12 rebounds, on 13th day vs KAOD, 26 points and 12 rebounds, on 15th day vs Panionios, 12 points and 14 rebounds, on 16th day vs Panathinaikos, 30 points and 12 rebounds, on 19th day vs Kolossos Rodou, 16 points and 12 rebounds, on 21st day vs Rethymno Aegean, 25 points and 12 rebounds when he was also named MVP of the 21st day of the League.

Vangelis Mantzaris renews with Olympiacos

Vangelis Mantzaris renewed his contract with Olympiacos for three more years.

Post by Olympiacos B.C. - Official Page.

Vanoli Cremona signed Darrius Garrett

Vanoli Cremona signed Darrius Garrett. Garrett was one of Nea Kifisia's key players, but the team decided to release the player due to a disciplinary offense.

Panathinaikos signed Lefteris Bochoridis

Panathinaikos signed Lefteris Bochoridis. The Greek champions offered 300.000 euros to Aris and acquired the promising young player.

Olympiacos signed Tremmell Darden

Olympiacos signed Tremmell Darden. The 32 years old American forward graduated from Niagara University where he played for Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball. As a rookie he played for Erdemir Spor Kulübü in Turkey and then moved to Belgium for Leuven and Charleroi. Darden moved to another continent for the Melbourne South Dragons before returning to Europe and France for Strasbourg and Nancy. Next teams were Unicaja Malaga in Spain, ŽalgirisKaunas in Lithuania and finally Real Madrid in Spain. With Real Madrid he played 31 games for the Euroleague and had 5.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.

Coach Skarafigas renews with Panelefsiniakos

Coach Giorgos Skarafigas renews with Panelefsiniakos for two more years. The Greek coach managed to avoid relegation for Panelefsiniakos in the previous tough season.

Apollon Patras signed Brandon Penn

Apollon Patras signed Brandon Penn for two years. The 24 years old American forward graduated from Rider College where he played 4 years in the NCAA. After college Penn played in Japan for the Takamatsu Five Arrows (高松ファイブアローズ) and the he moved to Denmark for the Bakken Bears. With Bakken Bears Peen won the Danish Championship and had 16.9 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.

CB Canarias signed Michalis Tsairelis

Iberostar Tenerife CB Canarias signed Michalis Tsairelis. The Greek forward is 2.08m high and played 35 games with PAOK in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 having 12.20 points and 5.11 rebounds per game. Tsairelis was named MVP of the fourth day of the previous season.

Aries Trikala signed Thanasis Kamariotis

Aries Trikala signed Thanasis Kamariotis. The 20 years old Greek player started his career in Doxa Drymou and continued in A2 division with Ermis Lagada. Kamariotis is a member of all Greek Young Men National Teams.

KAOD signed Dimitris Misiakos

KAOD signed Dimitris Misiakos. Misiakos will be the assistant coach of Kostas Mexas. The 32 years old coach last year promoted Enosis Iliou in the B division and he is member of the technical crew of the Greek Young Men National Team.

Derthona Basket signed Christian Polk

Derthona Basket signed Christian Polk. Polk played only 3 games with KAOD for the Basket League 2013-2014 before being replaced by J'Covan Brown.

Rethymno Aegean signed Dimitris Chilaris

Rethymno Aegean signed Dimitris Chilaris. The 24 years old power forward was playing for Filathlitikos in the A2 division and had 12.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.

Apollon Patras' friendly games with CSKA Moscow and Panathinaikos

Apollon Patras arragned friendly games with CSKA Moscow and Panathinaikos in Karpenisi where the team will prepare for the new season. On 29th August Apollon will play against Panathinaikos and on 14th September will play against CSKA Moscow. Apollon will probably organize Patras Cup friendly tournament on 10th and 11th September if the team has not games for the Greek Cup.

Apollon Patras signed Diogenis Gorgonis

Apollon Patras signed Diogenis Gorgonis. The 16 years old player is a member of the Greece U16 national team and had played for Kavala and PAOK. Gorgonis will play for Apollon Patras youth team Apolloniada.

Panathinaikos signed DeMarcus Nelson

Panathinaikos signed DeMarcus Nelson. The 29 years old American combo guard signed a two years contract with renewal option. The player graduated from Duke College, then was signed by Golden State Warriors but played with Bakersfield Jam and Austin Toros in the NBA Development League. He continued his career in Croatia for KK Zagreb, returned to NBA for Chicago Bulls but moved back to Europe and Italy for SS Scandone Avellino, then France for Cholet Basket, Ukraine for BC Donetsk, back to Cholet Basket and finally to Serbia for Crvena Zvezda. With Crvena Zvezda (Red Star) Nelson played in the Euroleague and Eurocup having more than 10 points and 4 rebounds per game.

Nea Kifisia signed Petros Melissaratos

Nea Kifisia signed Petros Melissaratos. The 21 years old Greek center was playing for Panelefsiniakos in the previous season and had 3.9 points and 2 rebounds per game while being in the top five best young players of the League.

Panelefsiniakos signed Giannis Athanasoulas

Panelefsiniakos signed Giannis Athanasoulas. The Greek forward is 2.02m high and was previously playing for Panionios. Athanasoulas has also played in the Eurocup with AEK. Valuable addition for Panelefsiniakos and another loss for Panionios. 

Panelefsiniakos and Magounis part ways

Panelefsiniakos and Magounis part ways since the player will continue his career in Faros Keratsiniou in a lower division.

Mavrokefalidis had an elbow surgery

Loukas Mavrokefalidis won't participate in the Greek National Team and the World Championship in Spain since he had an elbow surgery. Mavrokefalidis will be ready for the preparation with his team Panathinaikos.

Rethymno Aegean signed Chaisson Allen

Rethymno Aegean signed Chaisson Allen. The 25 years old American guard graduated from Northeastern college. Allen had played in Croatia for Zadar, in Turkey for Karşıyaka and Israel for Galil Gilboa. In the previous season Allen played in Poland for Stabill Jezioro where he had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

Rethymno Aegean signed Vincent Council

Rethymno Aegean signed Vincent Council. The American guard is 1.88m high and graduated from Providence college where he had 15.9 points, 7.5 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game. Council played in Hapoel Tel Aviv in the previous season where he had 6.2, 3.1 and 1.7 assists per game.Council participated in the NBA Summer League 2013-2014 with Miami Heat.

Aris signed Dimitris Priftis as head coach

Aris signed Dimitris Priftis as head coach. Priftis will return to Aris after the season 2009-2010 when he was the assistant coach of  David Blatt. In the previous season Priftis was the assistant coach of Fragiskos Alvertis in Panathinaikos where he won the Greek Championship and he is currently the assistant coach of Fotis Katsikaris in the National Team of Greece that will participate in the forthcoming World Championship in Spain.

Galil Gilboa signed Jeremiah Wilson

Hapoel Galil Gilboa signed the American power forward Jeremiah Wilson. The player played for Apollon Patras and last season he averaged 13.2 points and 8 rebounds per game. Wilson finished the season with six double doubles and helped his team enter the play offs.

Panelefsiniakos signed Periklis Dorkofikis

Panelefsiniakos signed Periklis Dorkofikis. The experienced power forward is 2.07m high and in the previous season with Ilisiakos he had 6.21 points per game in average. In the past Dorkofikis had played for Peristeri, Olympiada Patras, AEK, Rethymno in Greece and for Avelino and Regiana in Italy.

Antonis Mantzaris renewed with Panelefsiniakos

Antonis Mantzaris renewed with Panelefsiniakos. Mantzaris played 25 games with Panelefsiniakos for the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 5.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in average.

Apollon Patras signed Travis Cohn

Apollon Patras signed Travis Cohn (the third). Cohn is 1.88m high and Jacksonville University graduate where he played 4 years in the NCAA. Then Cohn played one year in the NBA Development League for Springfield Armor. In the previous year Cohn was playing in Icelandic Dominos League for Ungmennafelagio Snaefell where he had 23.4 points, 5.9 assists and 6.8 rebounds per game in average. Cohn won the Icelandic League 2014 dunk contest.

Rethymno Aegean signed Dejan Kravic

Rethymno Aegean signed Dejan Kravic. The 24 years old Serbian was playing for Texas Tech in NCAA and had 7.3 points and 4.6 rebounds in average per game. Saša Đorđević has picked Kravic for the Serbia National Team that will participate in the Spain World Basketball Championship 2014.

PAOK signed Kostas Kakaroudis

PAOK signed Kostas Kakaroudis. Kakaroudis played 6 games with Kolossos Rodou in Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 13.3 points and 2.8 rebounds per game in average. This is the first transfer for PAOK for the season 2014-2015.

Thanasis Skourtopoulos is Rethymno Aegean's new coach

Thanasis Skourtopoulos is Rethymno Aegean's new coach. The Greek coach signed a one year contract with the team from Rethymno. Skourtopoulos was the head coach of Panellinios, Egaleo, Panionios in Greece and Keravnos Strovolou in Cyprus. Besides Rethymno Aegean Skourtopoulos is the assistant of Fotis Katsikaris in the Greek National Team.

Soulis Markopoulos renewed with PAOK for 5 years

Soulis Markopoulos will be the coach of PAOK BC until 2018-2019, since the experienced Greek coach renewed his contract for 5 years.

Panelefsiniakos signed Stelios Ioannou

Panelefsiniakos signed Stelios Ioannou. The 26 years old Ioannou played 26 games with Ilisiakos in Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 6.5 points in average per game. He has also played for Panionios and KAOD.

Giorgos Dedas renews with PAOK BC

Giorgos Dedas renewed his contract with PAOK BC for two more years. Dedas played 26 games in the regular season and 9 games in the play offs of the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 5.94 points in average and 43% accuracy in three pointers.

Panathinaikos signed A.J. Slaughter

Panathinaikos signed A.J. Slaughter. The 26 years old American guard signed a two years contract with the Greek champions. Slaughter played for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers college and started his professional career in Angelico Biella of the Lega Basket Serie A, then moved to Belgium for Belfius Mons-Hainaut and France for Cholet Basket and Élan Chalon, before moving to Greece and Panathinaikos. Slaughter is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) high and plays as shooting guard. He will debut will Panathinaikos in the Euroleague, after good seasons in the Eurocup.

Charis Markopoulos agreed terms with Korivos Amaliadas

Charis Markopoulos is Korivos Amaliadas' new coach. The 32 years old Greek will coach Korivos Amaliadas in its first year in Basket League Greece, since the coach Vasilis Nipergialis who promoted the team from A2 parted ways with Korivos a week ago. Markopoulos was a member of PAOK's technical team and had been head coach of Iraklis and assistant coach of Aris. 

Panelefsiniakos signed Efthimis Tsakaleris

Panelefsiniakos signed Efthimis Tsakaleris. The 24 years old Greek was playing for Aris BC in the previous season where in 18 games had 3.2 points and 2 rebounds in average. Tsakaleris has also played for Panellinios and PAOK.

Christos Deligiannis renews with Aries Trikala

Christos Deligiannis renewed his contract with Aries Trikala as the team announced today. The team also announced the release of Sotiris Nikolaidis who was member of its technical team.

Rethymno Aegean released Giorgos Kalafatakis

Rethymno Aegean announced the release of the team coach Giorgos Kalafatakis. The Greek coach is in talks with the newly promoted team of Korivos Amaliadas and the team from Rethymno in search of its new head coach.

Panelefsiniakos and Thomas Nikou part ways

Panelefsiniakos and Thomas Nikou part ways. Nikou will continue his career in A2 division with the team of Psyhiko. 

Hapoel Holon signed Tony Crocker.

Hapoel Holon signed Tony Crocker. Crocker was one of the best player of Nea Kifisia in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 but he finished the season with a knee injury. Before his injury Crocker made some impressive dunks and two double doubles besides being named MVP of the ninth day of the League.

Apollon Patras signed Marios Batis

Apollon Patras signed Marios Batis. This is the second player that moves from Panionios to Apollon Patras during this transfer season, after Gaios Skordilis. Batis' contract has a buy out option if until 30 of July the player has an offer by either Panathinaikos or Olympiacos. The Greek play maker played 30 games with Panionios in Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and had 5.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists in average.

Giorgos Printezis renews with Olympiacos

Giorgos Printezis renews with Olympiacos. Printezis' contract was ending on 2015 but the team rushed to renew it for three years up to 2017. Printezis was named second best forward of Basket League Greece 2013-2014.

Aries Trikala and Giorgos Fountas part ways

Aries Trikala and Giorgos Fountas part ways. Fountas asked the team to release him so he will find another team where he will play more. Aries Trikala respected the player's will and released him with a friendly announcement, wishing him luck.

Sakis Karydas and Petros Noeas renewed with Korivos Amaliadas

Sakis Karydas and Petros Noeas renewed with Korivos Amaliadas. The team from Amaliada with play for the first time in the first division with the players that won the promotion. Noeas was the top rebounder of A2 League with 216 rebounds. Petros Noeas was second in assists with 139 in total and first in steals with 51 steals in total.

1st International Nick Galis Cup

Aris BC announced the 1st International Nick Galis Cup that will take place in Thessaloniki on 20 and 21 September 2014. Aris, Panathinaikos, CSKA Moscow and Banvit Basketbol Kulübü will be the four clubs that will participate. Aris will celebrate 100 years of sports history.

Kostas Mitoglou will continue in Wake Forest college

Kostas Mitoglou will continue his career in NCAA for Wake Forest college. Mitoglou played only 3 games with Aris in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 as he was signed as a future prospect for the team. Aris want to sign a deal with the player in case he returns back to Europe but since the player is 18 years old he is free to sign with any team. Mitoglou is a member of the U18 Greece national team.

U20 European Championship Men schedule and results

U20 European Championship Men Division A will take place in Crete, Heraklion and Rethymno. 
Group A: Hungary, Greece, Latvia, Great Britain, Lithuania.
Group B: Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Serbia
Group C: Montenegro, Turkey, Italy, Czech Republic, Croatia
Group D: Israel, France, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia.

8th July 2014

Group A

19.00 Greece - Lithuania 65-73
21.15 Great Britain - Latvia 64-62

Group B

18.00 Slovenia - Serbia 61-73
20.15 Germany - Spain 53-65

Group C

13.45 Croatia - Turkey 70-66
16.00 Czech - Italy 60-84

Dimos Avramidis renews with Panelefsiniakos

Dimos Avramidis renewed his contract with Panelefsiniakos. Avramidis was the team captain for the last two years and in the previous season he played 23 games with 2 points and 10 minutes per game in average.

Enisey Krasnoyarsk signed DJ Cooper

Enisey Krasnoyarsk signed DJ Cooper as his manager Charis Papadopoulos confirmed. The American guard recently acquired a Bosnian passport and his new contract has a release option if DJ Cooper agrees with a team that will play in Euroleague until 10th of July. DJ Cooper had a great season with PAOK and he break the assists record of the Basket League Greece in his first professional season. DJ Cooper was the MVP of the first round and best guard of the Basket League Greece.

Apollon Patras renewals and releases

Apollon Patras announced the contract renewals of the captain Nikos Argyropoulos and Andreas Pelekoudas. The team also announced the releases of Giannis Lianos, Thanasis Zafeiris and Vladimir Petrović. Petrović will continue his career in Promitheas Patron, a local team that plays in the B division of Greece.

Apollon Patras signed Gaios Skordilis

Apollon Patras signed Gaios Skordilis. The 26 years old Greek forward played 23 games with Panionios in the previous season and had 2.83 points and 3 rebounds per game.

Rethymno Aegean signed Mouhammad Faye

Rethymno Aegean signed Mouhammad Faye. This will be the third different Greek team for the 29 years old Senegalese forward, after Ikaros Kallitheas and Panelefsiniakos. With Panelefsiniakos in the previous season Faye had 13.5 points and 7.6 rebounds in average. Faye will play with Senegal national team against Greece in the forthcoming World Basketball Championship.