PAOK sign Antonis Koniaris

PAOK sign Antonis Koniaris. The 19 years old Greek play maker penned a three years contract. Koniaris started to play basketball with AO Akrotiriou but joined PAOK youth team when he was 14 years old. He debuted in Basket League with PAOK when he was 16 years and 12 days old, and later he moved to Panathinaikos.

Greece U20 National Team

Coach Elias Papatheodorou announced the players that will participate in the U20 European Championship in Chalkida, 15-24 July 2016.

Greece U20 National Team

Vasilis Toliopoulos 15.06.1996 1.88 Guard Olympiacos
Vasilis Mouratos 24.11.1997 1.92 Guard Olympiacos
Vasilis Charalampopoulos 06.01.1997 2.02 Forward Panathinaikos
Antonis Koniaris 30.09.1997 1.92 Guard Panathinaikos
George Papagiannis 03.07.1997 2.19 Center Panathinaikos
Michalis Lountzis 04.08.1998 1.92 Guard Panathinaikos
Giorgos Tsalbouris 27.06.1996 2.15 Center AEK
Dimitris Flionis 08.04.1997 1.90 Guard Aris
Nikos Diplaros 28.06.1997 1.88 Guard Aris
Thomas Kottas 27.04.1996 2.08 Center PAOK
Dimitris Stamatis 12.01.1996 1.87 Guard Kifisia
Sotiris Billis 14.11.1996 2.00 Forward Kolossos Rodou
Dionysis Skoulidas 29.07.1997 2.00 Forward Peristeri
Iakovos Milentigievits 11.01.1997 1.90 Guard Doukas
Nikos Maragkidis 23.07.1997 2.00 Forward Marousi
Thanasis Ntouzidis 18.08.1997 2.02 Forward Ikaros Kallitheas
Kostas Antetokounmpo 20.11.1997 2.06 Forward Dominican HighSchool

Coach: Elias Papatheodorou

Greece U18 Men's National Team training camp

The U18 Men's National Team of Greece gathered for a weekend training camp in OAKA Athens. The players called were the following:

Nikos Diplaros (Esperos Patras)
Elias Theodoridis (Iraklio)
Stratos Iordanoglou (Ikaros)
Thodoris Karras (Doukas)
Antonis Koniaris (Panathinaikos)
Michalis Lountzis (Panathinaikos)
Iakovos Miledijevic (Egaleo)
Vasilis Mouratos (Olympiacos)
Sotiris Billis (Panionios)
Thanasis Douzidis (Ikaros)
Kostas Oikonomopoulos (Panionios)
George Papagiannis (Panathinaikos)
Antonis Pefanis (Proteas Voulas)
Pantelis Skordas (Ikaros)
Dionysis Skoulidas (Peristeri)
Andreas Skoufis (Ikaros)
Dimitris Stamatis (Panionios)
Vasilis Toliopoulos (Kolossos Rodou)
Vasilis Charalampopoulos (Panathinaikos)
Anastasios Chondrogiannis (PAOK)
Vasilis Christidis (Mantoulidis)

Panathinaikos beat Aries Trikala for Basket League seventeenth day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Aries Trikala for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 seventeenth day. Dusko Ivanovic gave the chance to young players and they did their best. Giorgos Papagiannis made his first double double with 10 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks and 2 steals in 23 minutes. Michalis Lountzis scored 11 points, Antonis Koniaris scored 5 points and served 5 assists, Nikos Pappas scored 13 points, Vasilis Charalampopoulos collected 7 rebounds and Lefteris Bochoridis served 6 assists. Panathinaikos counted 32 assists, 11 steals, 7 blocks, 15/33 three pointers and 16 turnovers. For Aries Trikala Alex Harris scored 21 points, Justin Ingram had 14 points and 8 assists, Slaven Cupkovic had 11 points and 5 rebounds, Alex Varytimiadis had 5 points and 3 assists.
Quarters' scores: 23-26, 56-40, 85-62, 107-76

Panathinaikos (Ivanovic): Charalampopoulos 7, Slaughter 5, Bochoridis 11, Giankovits 5, Fotsis 7, Pappas 13, Mavrokefalidis 16, Diamantidis 11, Gist 6, Koniaris 5, Papagiannis 10 , Lountzis 11.
Aries Trikala (Flevarakis): Ingram 14, Nikolopoulos 2, Tracey 8, Harris 21, Cupkovic 11, Panos 9, Spanos, Kamariotis, Thodos, Varytimiadis 5, Houhoumis, Milutinovic 6.

Panathinaikos beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League fifteenth day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League 2014-2015 fifteenth day. Kolossos surprised Panathinaikos and the visitors were leading the score in the first quarter. Diamantidis entered the court and with his eight assists organized the counter attack. AJ Slaughter with 3 three pointers created a difference for Panathinaikos but in the end the youngsters Bochoridis, Koniaris, Charalampopoulos and Diamantakos secured the victory. For the winners Esteban Batista had 17 points, Dimitris Diamantidis had 9 points and 8 assists, Vlantimir Giankovits had 7 rebounds and 4 assists, and Vasilis Charalampopoulos made 4 steals. Panathinaikos made only 8 team turnovers while Kolossos made 17 in total. For Kolossos Dominic Waters had 15 points and 6 assists, Taylor Smith had 8 rebounds, Giannoulis Larentzakis had 13 points and 5 assists.
Quarters' scores: 14-20, 42-35, 67-56, 90-65

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 7(1), Slaughter 15(3), Bochoridis 4, Giankovits 4, Fotsis 3(1), Nelson 3(1), Mavrokefalidis 11, Diamantidis 9(2), Gist 9, Batista 17, Koniaris 6, Diamantakos 2
Kolossos Rodou: Toliopoulos 2, Larentzakis 13(1), Siologkas, Waters 15(1), Manolopoulos 2, Smith 8, Stefanidis, Linden 6(1), Scott 12(3), Haggins 7.

Panathinaikos BC roster 2014-2015

Panathinaikos BC roster 2014-2015

Diamantidis Dimitris (captain)
Nelson DeMarcus
A.J. Slaughter
Gani Lawal
Fotsis Antonis
Mavrokefalidis Loukas
Esteban Batista
Gist James
Pappas Nikos
Giankovits Vlantimir
Diamantakos Georgios
Charalampopoulos Vasileios
Lountzis Michalis
Lefteris Bochoridis
Antonis Koniaris
George Papagiannis
Jānis Blūms

Head Coach: Duško Ivanović
Assistant Coach: Sotiris Manolopoulos

*On October 16th Panathinaikos signed Julian Wright
*On January 31st Panathinaikos signed Gani Lawal