Olympiacos signed Daniel Hackett

Olympiacos signed Daniel Hackett. The 27 years old Italian American guard penned a two years contract with the Greek Champions. Hackett will play for the first time away from Italy and rejected an offer from the New York Knicks to participate in the summer camp. He has played for Benetton Treviso (2009-2010), Scavolini Pesaro (2010-2012), Montepaschi Siena (2012-2013), and Emporio Armani Milano (2013-2015). With Armani Milano has beat both Panathinaikos and Olympiacos for Euroleague. 

Panathinaikos beat Armani Milano for Euroleague fourth day

Panathinaikos hosted and beat Armani Milano for Euroleague fourth day. Panathinaikos started with 3/3 three pointers and Armani Milano loose defense helped the home team to build a difference and keep it. In the third quarter Panathinaikos made a 13-0 run and cleared the game. For Panathinaikos Esteban Batista had 15 points and 4 rebounds, Dimitris Diamantidis had 6 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists. For Armani Milano Joe Ragland had 13 points, 7 assists and Samardo Samuels had 18 points.
Quarters' scores: 23-13, 44-30, 71-43, 90-63

Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Slaughter 11(1), Bochoridis, Giankovits 9(2), Fotsis 7(1), Pappas 11(1), Mavrokefalidis 5, Diamantidis 6(1), Gist 9(1), Batista 15, Blums 8(2), Wright 9.
Armani Milano: Ragland 13(3), Brooks 11(1), Gentile, Melli, Meacham, Kleiza 4, James 3, Hackett 9(1), Samuels 18, Moss 5(1)

Aris and Giannis Athinaiou part ways

Aris announced that parted ways with Giannis Athinaiou. Aris didn't want to release the player but Athinaiou wanted to continue his career in Italy with Armani Milano. In this season Athinaiou played 22 games with Aris and had 13,4 points, 3,3 assists and 2,5 rebounds in average per game.

Olympiacos lost by Armani Milano for Euroleague Top 16

Olympiacos hosted and lost byArmani Milano for Euroleague Top 16. Olympiacos without Vasilis Spanoulis but with Giorgi Shermandini available was better in the first quarter but before the half time Armani Milano managed to take the lead in score. Keith Langford had 13 points and Stratos Perperoglou 15 points in the first half. From that point on the game was tight with Armani Milano having a small lead of 2-3 points and Olympiacos trying to counter attack. In the last minutes Olympiacos with Stratos Perperoglou took the lead by 81-80 but then Bryant Dunston lost two free throws and Keith Langford scored a three pointer making the score 81-85. Olympiacos lost a game without the captain Vasilis Spanoulis and will fight to promote in the next round, since the second place is probably lost for the Euroleague winners. 22 points for Stratos Perperoglou, 20 points for Keith Langford and 16 points with 9 rebounds for Giorgos Printezis.
Quarters' scores: 29-23, 47-50, 63-65, 86-88.

Olympiacos: Petway 3, Shermandini 9, Dunston 11, Perperoglou 22, Papapetrou, Sloukas 13, Collins, Simmons, Printezis 16, Mantzaris 5, Katsivelis, Lojeski 7.
Armani Milano: Gentile, Cerelli 3, Melli 2, Hackett 9, Kangur 7, Langford 20, Samuels 9, Wallace 8, Lawal 13, Moss 6, Jerrells 11.

Armani Milan beat Panathinaikos for Euroleague Top 16

EA7 Emporio Armani Milan beat Panathinaikos Athens for Euroleague Top 16. Panathinaikos had a bad first half and a very bad second quarter that let Armani Milan finish the first half with 15 points lead in score. With a counter attack mainly in the fourth quarter Panathinaikos lowered the difference but couldn't win the game. Panathinaikos lost and left behind in group standings, only benefit from the game is that Panathinaikos has the points advantage. Zack Wright in his debut with Panathinaikos in Euroleague had 17 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. James Gist with 21 points and 9 rebounds was the top player of Panathinaikos.
Quarters' scores: 19-13, 41-26, 59-49, 77-75.

Armani Milan: Gentile 8, Cerella 8, Melli 3, Hackett 5, Kangur, Langford 18, Samuels 16, Toure, Wallace, Lawal 2, Moss 7, Jerrells 10.
Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos 7, Batiste, Fotsis 10, Ukic 2, Lasme 5, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 6, Gist 21, Pappas 2, Giankovits, Maciulis 5, Wright 17.

Armani Milano defeated Olympiacos for Euroleague TOP 16 second day

 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan hosted and defeated Olympiacos Piraeus for Euroleague TOP 16 second day. Olympiacos was undefeated in the Euroleague and started the game better than Armani Milano, with Simmons and Printezis leading the first quarter. Armani Milano counter attacked and the first half finished with the home team leading the score by 7 points. The Italian team played tight defense on Vasilis Spanoulis and with Keith Langford having a great game broadened the difference to 23 points in the end of the third quarter. The third quarter was a disaster for Olympiacos with the partial score to be 24-8. Olympiacos didn't manage to lower the difference and lost by 30 points. First defeat for Olympiacos in Euroleague this season with a broad difference. Armani Milano had 12/21 three pointers while Olympiacos had only 3/18 three pointers. Keith Langford was unstoppable with 29 points, 4 rebounds and 9 fouls drawn. Gani Lawal helped with 10 points and 9 rebounds. For Olympiacos only Giorgos Printezis scored more than 10 points,

Quarters' scores: 16-21, 39-32, 63-40, 81-51.

 EA7 Emporio Armani Milan: Gigli, Cerella 5, Melli 3, Hackett 17, Kangur, Langford 29, Samuels, Toure, Wallace 2, Lawal 10, Moss 2, Jerrells 13.

Olympiacos: Dunston 3, Spanoulis 8, Perperoglou 3, Sloukas 7, Collins, Simmons 6, Begic, Printezis 12, Agravanis, Mantzaris 7, Katsivelis, Lojeski 5.

Panathinaikos defeated Armani Milano for Euroleague Top 16

Panathinaikos Athens hosted and defeated EA7 Emporio Armani Milan for Euroleague's Top 16 first game. Panathinaikos was improved than the group phase and with 10/21 three pointers and 39 rebounds won the game with a difference. For the winners James Gist scored 12 points and Roko Leni Ukić 11 points. Stephane Lasme collected 13 rebounds and Dimitris Diamantidis served 11 assists. For Armani Milano Gentile scored 14 points and Langford 11 points.

Quarters' scores: 20-14, 38-31, 52-40, 73-57.

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Panathinaikos: Bramos 6, Curry 10, Batiste 1, Fotsis 10, Ukić 11, Lasme 7, Mavrokefalidis 6, Diamantidis 5, Gist 12, Pappas, Giankovits, Mačiulis 5.

Armani Milano: Gentile 14, Gigli, Cerella, Melli 5, Hackett 3, Kangur, Langford 11, Samuels, Wallace 2, Lawal 7, Moss 6, Jerrells 9.