Elias Papatheodorou is the new head coach of AEK BC

Elias Papatheodorou is the new head coach of AEK BC. The 44-year-old Greek coach will penned a two-years contract with AEK that will be the third Greek club he will work as head coach. Papatheodorou has worked as head coach for Larisaikos, Markopoulo, Nea Kifisia, and PAOK in Greece and Astana in Kazakhstan. With Astana Papatheodorou won both the domestic championship and the cup. Papatheodorou has also worked as the head coach of Greece U18, U19, U20 men national teams.

Flevarakis is the new head coach of Kolossos

Kostas Flevarakis is the new head coach of Kolossos Rodou. The 49-year-old Greek coach returns to Greece after two seasons to replace Vetoulas at the bench of Kolossos. Flevarakis has managed PAOK, AEK, Panellinios, Makedonikos, Ilisiakos, Trikala, and Rethymno in Greece, Akropol in Sweden, Braunschweig in Germany, Keravnos Strovolou in Cyprus, Koszalin in Poland, and Astana in Kazhakstan.

Promitheas signed Dimitris Katsivelis

Promitheas signed Dimitris Katsivelis. The 27-year-old Greek guard started his career with Mantoulidis and has also played for Olympiacos, PAOK, and AEK in Greece. In 2016 Katsivelis moved to Kazakhstan to play for Astana. In the previous season Katsivelis was the second top scorer of PAOK in the first round of the regular season. He was a member of all youth Greek national basketball teams and in 2017 he became a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team.

Promitheas signed Leonidas Kaselakis

Promitheas signed Leonidas Kaselakis. The 28-year old Greek forward returns to Greece after two years in Kazakhstan with BK Astana. In the previous season, he averaged 14.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game for the Kazakhi League, and 11.3 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 2 assists per game for the VTB United League. Kaselakis has also played for PAOK, AEK, Ilysiakos and Nea Kifisia.

PAOK sign Ousman Krubally

PAOK sign Ousman Krubally. The 29 years old American - Gambian forward penned an one year contract. Krubally graduated from Georgia State and went undrafted in the 2010 NBA Draft. He started his professional career in the UK with London Leopards and continued in Netherlands with Den Helder Kings, in Slovenia with Grosuplje, and in Italy with Legnano Knights. Krubally started the previous season in Greece with Lavrio and also played in Italy for Umana Reyer Venezia and Kazakhstan for BC Astana. With Astana Krubally averaged 12.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, winning the double under the guidance of Elias Papatheodorou.

Panathinaikos sign Pat Calathes

Panathinaikos sign Patrick Sean "Pat" Calathes. The 31 years old Greek American penned an one year contract and returns to the Greens after 2011-2012 season. Calathes graduated from Saint Joseph and started his professional career in Greece with Marousi, after he went undrafted in 2008 NBA Draft. After a year in Marousi he moved to Kolossos Rodou and then to Panathinaikos. In 2012 Calathes moved to Israel for Maccabi Haifa and in 2013 he moved to Astana where he played in the last three seasons. In his last season with Astana Calathes averaged 12.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.2 asissts per game.

Elias Papatheodorou is Astana's new coach

Elias Papatheodorou is Astana's new coach. The 41 years old Greek coach parted ways with Kifisia after 9 years. Papatheodorou led Kifisia to the Basket League Play Offs. This will be the first time Papatheodorou will word abroad.

AEK eyes J'Covan Brown

AEK eyes J'Covan Brown. The 26 years old American will probably replace DJ Cooper and is experienced in the Basket League Greece since he played for KAOD in 2013-2014 season and with Rethymno Aegean in 2012-2013 season. Brown finished third in scored points in the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 regular season helping KAOD to enter the play offs, and he was named second MVP of the second round. After KAOD Brown played in Kazakhstan for BC Astana and in Turkey for Türk Telekom BK.

Korivos signed Rawle Marshall

Korivos signed Rawle Junior Kalomo Marshall. The 32 years old Guyanese-American started his career with Dallas Mavericks and then played for Fort Worth Flyers in the NBA Development League before returning to NBA for Indiana Pacers. After USA Marshall moved to Serbia for KK Hemofarm, then Croatia for Cibona Zagreb and in 2010 he played for PAOK in Greece where he was named member of the Greek League Best Five Team. In the previous seasons Marshall played in Russia for Astana and Romania for CSU Asesoft Ploiești. Marshall will replace Rob Lowery who moved to Latvia for Riga.

Panathinaikos signed Jānis Blūms

Panathinaikos signed Jānis Blūms. The Latvian player signed a 1+1 months contract and he will replace the injured DeMarcus Nelson. Blūms is member of the Latvian national basketball team and currently its captain. Before Panathinaikos he played for Astana, Lietuvos Rytas, Bilbao, Napoli, Ventspils, Skonto, Anwil Włocławek and BK Brocēni.

Panathinaikos wins Astana in friendly game

Panathinaikos won Kazakhstani basketball team Astana, in the first friendly game for this season in Athens, Greece. Final score was 73-62 and quarters' scores were 19-14, 41-27, 63-47, 73-62.

Antonis Fotsis invited the fans to attend the friendly game which was his return to Panathinaikos after two years and he celebrated with being the leading scorer with 12 points.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 10(2), Curry 7(1), Batiste 6, Fotsis 12(2), Lasme 8, Diamantidis 9(3), Gist 5, Pappas 5(1), Giankovits 3(1), Shang , Matsioulis 8

Astana: Johnson 11(1), Lawal 8, Simon 17(1), Klimov , Yargaliyew, Rush 8(2), Cvetković 12(1), Kolesnikov 3, Calathes 3(1), Blūms

Video with highlights from the game.