Bochoridis got injured

In the recent friendly game against Partizan Lefteris Bochoridis was unlucky and got injured. The young player suffers for a fibula fracture and will be out of action for about 3 to 4 months. Bochoridis will miss the two games against Olympiacos.

Panathinaikos beat Korivos Amaliadas for Basket League twenty first day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Korivos Amaliadas for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 twenty first day. Easy victory for Panathinaikos with another record for Dimitris Diamantidis. The captain became the all time best in rebounds in the professional league of Greece, surpassing his former teammate Tsartsaris. Lountzis, Bochoridis, Diamantakos and Charalampopoulos gained more experience. Gist was the top scorer of Panathinaikos with 13 points. Diamantakos collected 7 rebounds, Diamantidis served 4 assists. For Korivos Rawle Marshall had 13 points, Andreas Kanonidis had 12 points, Sasa Vasiljevic served 6 assists, Josh Magette served 6 assists and made 3 steals. Guille Rubio and Giorgos Galliotos collected 7 rebounds each. Tim Bowers and Nikos Pappas made 4 turnovers each.
Quarters' scores: 18-14, 39-29, 58-40, 79-64

Panathinaikos (Ivanovic): Charalampopoulos 8(1), Slaughter 10(2), Bochoridis 8(1), Fotsis, Nelson 6, Pappas 12(1), Diamantidis 4, Gist 13(1), Batista 1, Diamantakos 5, Lountzis 6, Lawal 6
Korivos Amaliadas (Markopoulos): Magette 9(1), Marshall 13, Giannakidis 5(1), Aggelopoulos, Papapetrou 5, Bowers 6, Vasiljevic, Kanonidis 12(2), Filippakos 2, Turner, Rubio 9(1), Galiotos 3.

Panathinaikos beat AEK for Basket League third day

Panathinaikos hosted beat AEK for Basket League third day. Panathinaikos didn't let AEK hope with a 15-3 run in the first minutes and won the game by 34 points difference. The new players of Panathinaikos dominated the game with Lefteris Bochoridis serving 13 assists (missed double double for one point), Nikos Pappas scored 18 points and AJ Slaughter and Vlantimir Giankovits scored 16 points each. For AEK only Dusan Sakota scored more than 10 points and Zisis Sarikopoulos scored 9 points and collected 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 25-11, 54-24, 74-44, 92-58

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Slaughter 16(2), Bochoridis 9(3), Giankovits 16(4), Fotsis 3, Pappas 18(4), Mavrokefalidis 1, Diamantidis 1, Gist 15(1), Batista 6, Blums 5(1), Wright 2
AEK: Papantoniou 8(1), Kyles 8(1), Sakota 12(2), Kaselakis 5(1), Polytarchou 4, Papadionysiou, Wright, Kamperidis  2, Sarikopoulos 9, Milosevic 2, Goodridge 8.

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 

Panathinaikos signed Lefteris Bochoridis

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

Greece U20 beat Italy U20 in Roseto tournament

Greece U20 beat Italy U20 in Roseto degli Abruzzi tournament and took the first place with three victories in three games. For Greece Lefteris Bochoridis had 25 points and Michalis Kamperidis had 16 points. For Italy Simone Fontecchio had 15 points and Tomasso Laquintana had 13 points. Italy took the third place with one victory and two defeats.

Italy: Cucci , Grande 9, Akele 2, Laquintana 13, Marini 18, Procacci 4, Turel 4, Bossi , Fontecchio 15, Pipitone 1, De Vico 6, Candussi.
Greece: Bochoridis 25, Liapis 5, Pouliantis 1, Spiridonidis 6, Fakopoulidis , Spiropoulos 4, Kamariotis 2, Kouzeloglou 6, Kamperidis 16, Siologas 8, Dimantakos , Maragos 2.

Greece U20 beat Russia U20 in Roseto tournament

Greece U20 beat Russia U20, in Roseto degli Abruzzi friendly tournament, with score 53-55. For Russia Igor Kanygin had 13 points, Dmitry Kulagin had 11 points and Stanislav Ilnitskiy had 9 rebounds. For Greece Georgios Diamantakos scored 17 points and had 8 rebounds, Lefteris Bochoridis scored 11 points and had 2 assists and Michalis Kamperidis and Alexandros Spyridonidis had 7 points each.

RUSSIA: Pylaev, Krechetov, Gankevich 4, Kulagin 11, Kanygin 13, Ilnitskiy 3, Martynov 8, Kashin, Babushkin 6, Desyatnikov 3, Annaev 5, Pershin.
GREECE: Bochoridis 11, Liapis 5, Poulianitis, Spyridonidis 7, Spiropoulos 2, Kamariotis, Kouzeloglou, Kamperidis 7, Siologas 1, Dimantakos 17, Maragos 3.

In the second game Italy beat Poland with score 71-61. Landi had 11 points, Cucco and Candussi had 10 points each and La Quintana had 9 points. Akele had 7 points and 6 rebounds. For Poland Garbacz had 12 points and 5 rebounds, Szymkiewicz had 11 points and Grzelinski had 9 points.

ITALY: Cucci 4, Grande 4, Cucco 10, Ikangi 2, La Quintana 9, Pipitone 6, Turel 2, Peroni, Candussi 10, Landi 11, Akele 7, De Vico 6.
POLAND: Grzelinski 9, Schenk 2, Morawiec, Zegzula 7, Garbacz 12, Struski 3, Czerlenko 2, Radwanski 7, Szymkiewicz 11, Borowski 6, Patoka 2, Witlinski.

Roseto degli Abruzzi schedule and Greece U20 roster

Greece U20 young men team will participate in Roseto degli Abruzzi tournament. In the tournament besides Greece will also participate Russia, Poland and the hostess team Italy. The players of Olympiacos will not participate in the tournament as the team has withdrawn its players due to lack of full insurance

Roseto degli Abruzzi tournament schedule

Thursday 19/6
19.00 Russia - Greece 53-55
21.00 Italy - Poland 71-61
Friday 20/6
19.00 Greece - Poland 77-69
21.00 Italy - Russia 54-65
Saturday 21/6
19.00 Poland - Russia 68-71
21.00 Italy - Greece 72-75

The players of Greece U20 team are:

Giorgos Diamantakos 14.01.1995 2.16 Panathinaikos
Paris Maragos 19.01.1994 2.05 George Washington Univ.
Michalis Liapis 11.03.1995 1.90 PAOK
Alexandros Spyridonidis 03.02.1995 1.89 KAOD
Kostas Fakopoulidis 11.05.1995 1.90 Ilisiakos
Anastasios Spyropoulos 01.04.1995 2.04 Panionios
Thanos Kamariotis 26.04.1994 1.99 Ermis Lagada
Dimitris Siologkas 28.04.1994 2.02 Iraklis
Giannis Kouzeloglou 01.04.1995 2.04 Mantoulidis
Michalis Kamperidis 24.04.1994 2.00 Filathlitikos
Stelios Poulianitis 03.04.1995 1.90 Aris
Lefteris Bochoridis 18.04.1994 1.94 Aris

Coach: Kostas Missas
Assistant Coach: Giannis Eleftheriadis
Medical: Charis Voulgaropoulos
Physio: Thanasis Zamparas
Team captain: Kostas Nikakis

Greece U20 beat Germany in friendly game

Greece U20 national team beat Germany U20 national team in friendly game by 62-60. For Greece Lefteris Bochoridis, Michalis Liapis and Dimitris Siologkas were the top scorers. For Germany Kenneth Ogbe, Maximilian Ugrai, Robin Jorch and Dominic Lockhart were the top scorers. Greece had a poor 14/24 in free throws while Germany had 8/18 three pointers. Germany collected 8 rebounds more but also made 7 turnovers more and had 9 steals less than Greece.

Greece U20: Bochoridis 12, Liapis 11, Poulianitis 4, Spyridonidis 4, Fakopoulidis, Spyropoulos, Mitsialos 2, Kouzeloglou 4, Kamperidis 7, Siologkas 10, Diamantakos 6, Maragkos 2.
Germany U20: Geske 2, Kovalev 1, Ilzhofner, Baues 3, Bryant, Akpinar, Lockhart 10, Joos, Ogbe 16, Jorch 10, Ugrai 9, Thiemann 9.

Basket League Greece 2013-14 best young player: Aleksandar Vezenkov

Aleksandar Vezenkov named best young player of the Basket League Greece for second year in a row. For second year in a row two players of Aris, Vezenkov and Bochoridis made it to the best three young players of the league. Vezenkov was named best rookie of the season 2012-2013. Bochoridis was second best young player of the previous season and third best young player of this season.

Best Young Player of the season

	Player	Points	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1	Aleksandar Vezenkov (Aris)	130	39	5	3
2	Giannis Papapetrou (Olympiacos)	67	7	15	16
3	Lefteris Bochoridis (Aris)	62	3	21	11
4	Diamantis Slaftsakis (KAOD)	21	1	5	8
5	Tasos Antonakis (Ilisiakos)	5		2	1

Greece U20 national team roster

Greece U20 men national team started practice for the forthcoming European Championship that will take place in Crete. The coach Kostas Missas has called the following players

Player, Year of birth, Height, Current Club
Kostas Gontikas, 1994, 2.05, NYU
Giorgos Diamantakos, 1995, 2.16, Panathinaikos
Michalis Kamperidis, 1994, 2.00, Filathlitikos
Giannis Karamolegos, 1994, 1.90, Arkadikos
Giannis Kouzeloglou, 1995, 2.04, Mantoulidis
Michalis Liapis, 1995, 1.90, PAOK
Paris Maragos, 1994, 2.05, George Washington University
Alexandros Mitsialos, 1994, 2.00, Iraklis
Lefteris Bochoridis, 1994, 1.94, Aris
Andreas Petropoulos, 1994, 1.96, Pagrati
Stelios Poulianitis, 1995, 1.90, Aris
Dimitris Siologas, 1994, 2.02, Iraklis
Diamantis Slaftsakis, 1994, 2.02, KAOD
Alexandros Spyridonidis, 1995, 1.89, KAOD 
Anastasios Spyropoulos, 1995, 2.04, Panionios

Three players of Olympiacos have also been called but didn't attend the first training.
Giannis Papapetrou, 1994, 2.03, Olympiacos
Andreas Christodoulou, 1995, 1.96, Olympiacos
Dimitris Agravanis, 1994, 2.08, Olympiacos

Kamperidis and Bochoridis declared for NBA Draft 2014

Michalis Kamperidis and Lefteris Bochoridis declared for NBA Draft 2014.
Lefteris Bochoridis, born in 1994, is 196cm high and currently plays for Aris BC in the Greek Basket League. In 26 games with Aris this season Bochoridis has 7.0 points, 2.62 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in average. 

Michalis Kamperidis is also born i 1994, currently plays for Filathilitikos in A2 second division of Greece and is 204cm high. In 24 games with Filathlitikos Kamperidis has 9.1 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2 assists per game in average.

Olympiacos beat Aris for Greek League Play Offs

Olympiacos beat and eliminated Aris for Greek Basket League Play Offs round one. Olympiacos doubled its victories against Aris in the play offs with the same ease of the first game. Vasilis Spanoulis scored 15 points and served 7 assists, Stratos Perperoglou and Giorgos Printezis scored 10 points each and all players of Olympiacos played at least 5 minutes. For Aris Lefteris Bochoridis and Kostas Charisis scored 10 points each but the team couldn't compete Olympiacos.
Quarters' scores: 8-17, 26-36, 40-59, 59-74.

Aris: Bochoridis 10, Hunt, Pelekanos 4, Gikas 5, Tsakaleris 6, Asimakopoulos 9, Poulianitis, Charisis 10, Laretzakis 9, Sarikopoulos 1, Mourtos 5, Mitoglou.
Olympiacos: Petway 6, Dunston 6, Spanoulis 15, Perperoglou 10, Papapetrou, Sloukas 8, Collins 5, Simmons 3, Printezis 10, Mantzaris 9, Kavvadas, Christodoulou 2.

Kolossos Rodou beat Aris for Greek League 26th day

Kolossos Rodou hosted and beat Aris for Greek Basket League 26th day. Nontas Papantoniou with a three pointer in the last minute gave his team the victory. Kolossos Rodou finished the season with a victory and Aris will continue to play offs againt Olympiacos. Lefteris Bochoridis continued with good games and was Aris' top scorer with 18 points while Michalis Pelekanos had 17 points and Alexander Vezenkov 16 points. For Kolossos Rodou Kostas Kakaroudis had 14 points and 5 rebounds, Nontas Papantoniou had 12 points with his winning three pointer and Giannis Georgallis had 3 points and 7 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 16-18, 39-39, 63-56, 72-69.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 12 , Car 3, Georgallis 3, Hopkins 7, Smith 6, Stefanidis 3, Simpson 10, Tsamis 2, Kakaroudis 14, Pantic 8, Nadjfej 4.
Aris: Bochoridis 18, Hunt, Pelekanos 17, Gikas, Asimakopoulos 2, Charisis 8, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 16, Sarikopoulos 2, Mourtos 6.

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.

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.

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. 

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 defeated Aris with 90-53 in Greek Cup Final 2014

Panathinaikos smashed Aris with 90-53 for the Greek Cup Final 2014. Aris was competitive only in the first half. First half finished with equal score for the two teams but in the second half Panathinaikos made a 15-0 run and cleared the game. Ramel Curry was the top scorer for Panathinaikos with 17 points but Jonas Mačiulis with his three pointers and Dimitris Diamantidis with his guidance helped their team win the game in the third quarter. For Aris Lefteris Bochoridis was the top scorer with Giannis Athinaiou, Alexander Vezenkov and Michalis Pelekanos helping in score mainly in the first half. This was the fiftteenth and third consecutive Greek Cup for Panathinaikos. Aris remains with 8 Greek Cup wins.
Quarters' scores: 20-18, 40-40, 75-47, 90-53

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 8, Curry 17, Batiste 4, Fotsis 11, Ukic 6, Lasme 7, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 7, Pappas 7, Giankovits 6, Mačiulis 13.
Aris: Bochoridis 12, Hunt, Pelekanos 9, Gikas 1, Tsakaleris 7, Asimakopoulos, Charisis, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 9, Mourtos 5, Athinaiou 10.

Aris defeated KAOD for Greek League 14th day

Aris hosted and defeated KAOD for Greek Basket League 14th day. First quarter was bad for Aris that had 0/8 three pointers while KAOD had 67% in all shots, 4/6 free shots, 4/6 two pointers and 2/3 three pointers. Lazeric Jones finished the first quarter with 11 points. Aris made a 6-0 run in the second half and took the lead by two points. Lefteris Bochoridis scored the first three pointer for Aris, after 11 failed attempts, making the score 25-22. First half finished with Aris ahead by 9 points. Aris had 1/16 three pointers but with only 4 turnovers and 10/16 two pointers was ahead in score. KAOD had 13 turnovers in the first half, which were the main reason of being behind in score. Aris improved having 5/13 three pointers and only 10 more turnovers in the second half and broadened the difference to 20 points in the third half. KAOD didn't counter attacked and the game finished with a broad victory for Aris. Kostas Charisis finished the game with a double double, 10 points and 10 rebounds. For KAOD Lazeric Jones finished the game with 19 and Benas with 11 points.

Quarters' scores: 14-18, 35-26, 58-38, 77-59.

Aris: Bochoridis 9, Hunt, Pelekanos 13, Tsakaleris 11, Asimakopoulos 4, Poulianitis, Charisis 10, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 9, Mourtos 9, Athinaiou 12, Mitoglou.

KAOD: Slaftsakis 8, Jones 19, Stiggers 7, Brown 9, Vaughn, Marković, Spyridonidis, Bavčić, Zaras 3, Benas 11, Chrysikopoulos, Kolovis 2.