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.

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.

Olympiacos released Acie Law and Mirza Begić

Olympiacos released Acie Law and Mirza Begić. Olympiacos announced that the team used the option that was on both players' contracts and released the American guard and the Slovenian center.

Kenny Gabriel signed with Pınar Karşıyaka

Kenny Gabriel signed with Pınar Karşıyaka in Turkey. The team will pay 60,000$ to Rethymno Aegean as a transfer fee. Gabriel had a great season in Basket League Greece 2013-2014, in 33 games with Rethymno Aegean he had 12,81 points and 9,35 rebounds per game in average.
Gabriel finished the regular season with 10 double doubles and being named twice MVP of the day. 
Here is the full list with his best moments:
1st day

Kenny Gabriel (Rethymno Aegean) vs Ikaros Chalkidas, 13 points and 11 rebounds

Panathinaikos signed George Papagiannis

Panathinaikos signed George Papagiannis. The 17 years old Greek center started at Olympiacos' academies before his first contract with Peristeri BC. In 15th January 2012 Papagiannis became the youngest player that has ever played in the Basket League Greece at the age of 14 years old and 6 months. After his debut in Peristeri Papagiannis moved to USA and currently studies and plays for Westtown School of Pennsylvania. Papagiannis will stay in Pennsylvania for one more year before joining the Greek champions. Born on 3rd July 1997 Papagiannis has won the bronze medal with Greece U16 in Ukraine FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship 2013 and then the gold medal with Greece U16 in Turkey World Under-16 Basketball Championship. For two years in a row, 2012 and 2013, Papagiannis is FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship: Blocked Shots Leader.

Jonas Mačiulis named best forward of Basket League Greece 2013-2014

Jonas Mačiulis named best forward of Basket League Greece 2013-2014. Mačiulis played 22 games for the regular season with 6.23 points and 2.59 rebounds per game in average but improved in the 9 games of the League Play Offs with 8.78 points and 3.56 rebounds per game.

DJ Cooper named best guard of the Greek League

DJ Cooper named best guard of the Basket League Greece 2013-2014 and member of the best team of the League. DJ Cooper was the MVP of the first round of the league and the leader in assists. In his first rookie season DJ Cooper proved right the rumors about his skills that were following him from NCAA

 

Aris released Jeremy Hunt

Aris BC announced that the team used the buy out option and released Jeremy Hunt. Hunt was the only foreign player of Aris in the season 2013-2014 since the team from Thessaloniki had a transfers' limitation due to economic problems. Hunt played 15 games with Aris and had 1.7 points and 1.13 rebounds in average per game.

Nikos Liakopoulos renewed with Nea Kifisia

Nea Kifisia announced that the player Nikos Liakopoulos will continue to play for the team as he renewed his contract.

Nea Kifisia signed Michalis Kalavros

Nea Kifisia signed Michalis Kalavros as an assistant of Elias Papatheodorou. Kalavros has worked as coach in Greece for Sporting, in Norway for Harstad Vikings and New Zealand for Manawatu Jets. As an assistant coach Kalavros has worked in Near East, AEK, Kolossos Rodou, Olympia Larissas, Ilisiakos and in Germany for Frankfurt Skyliners and in China for Shanghai Sharks. A helpful and experienced member for the team of Nea Kifisia.

Stephane Lasme named best center and defender of the Greek Basket League

Stephane Lasme named best center and best defender of the Greek Basket League. This is the second year in a row that Lasme is named best defender of the league. In the previous season Lasme was named Euroleague Best Defender, Greek League Best Defender and Greek League MVP. Lasme played 33 games with Panathinaikos in this season and had 10.73 points and 5 rebounds in average per game.

Olympiacos and Perperoglou part ways

Stratos Perperoglou won't continue his career in Greece since the player didn't agree terms with Olympiacos. Perperoglou was a player of Olympiacos for the previous two seasons and before that had played for Panathinaikos, Panionios and Ilisiakos. In this season Perperoglou  played 20 games and had 9 points and 3.65 rebounds in average per game. Perperoglou will probably continue his career in Turkey and Anadolu Efes Spor Kulübü, first time that he will play abroad.

Basket League Greece 2013-2014 regular season players' statistics

Basket League Greece 2013-2014 regular season players' statistics

Points scored
1. Errick McCollum (Panionios) 466
2. Chris Evans (Aries Trikala) 412
3. J'Covan Brown (KAOD) 397
4. Ivan Aska (Ikaros Chalkidas) 380
5. Lazeric Jones (KAOD) 357

Assists
1. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 172
2. Gagaloudis Giannis (Ikaros Chalkidas) 122
3. Dimitris Diamantidis (Panathinaikos) 114
4. Liakopoulos Nikos (Nea Kifisia) 113
5. Nikou Thomas (Panelefsiniakos) 97

Rebounds
1. Gabriel Kenny (Rethymno Aegean) 243
2. Markovic Nikola (KAOD) 191
3. Sutton Dominique (Ikaros Chalkidas) 187
4. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 181
5. Patrick Ewing Jr (Aries Trikala) 179

Steals
1. Demarius Bolds (Apollon Patras) 50
2. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 49
3. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 43
4. Papamakarios Manolis (Panelefsiniakos) 37
5. Sutton Dominique (Ikaros Chalkidas) 37

Rating
1. Evans Chris (Aries Trikala) 460
2. Errick McCollum (Panionios) 436
3. DJ Cooper (PAOK) 407
4. Patrick Ewing Jr (Aries Trikala) 406
5. Gabriel Kenny (Rethymno Aegean) 397

Panathinaikos offers 300k for Vangelis Mantzaris

Panathinaikos president Dimitris Giannakopoulos send an official request for Vangelis Mantzaris to Olympiacos. This is the first time one of the two rivals of the Greek League officially asks a player from the opponent. Panathinaikos offers 300.000€ for the player as stated in the official document here

Basket League Greece 2013-14 most improved player Giorgos Bogris

Basket League Greece 2013-2014 most improved player Giorgos Bogris. Two players of PAOK were named as the two most improved players of Basket League Greece 2013-2014, Giorgos Bogris and Michalis Tsairelis. Bogris played 25 games with PAOK and had 10.72 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in average.

Most Improved Player of the season

	Player	Points	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1	Giorgos Bogris (PAOK)	62	11	11	7
2	Michalis Tsairelis (PAOK)	59	12	9	5
3	Aleksandar Vezenkov (Aris)	44	9	6	5
4	Giannis Athinaiou (Aris)	37	7	6	4
5	Errick McCollum (Panionios)	15	2	2	2

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

Nea Kifisia released Theofilos Beke

Nea Kifisia released Theofilos Beke. The Greek coach was assisting Elias Papatheodorou in the last three years and contributed in Nea Kifisia's impressive seasons.
Η Νέα Κηφισιά ανακοίνωσε τη λύση της συνεργασίας της με τον προπονητή, Θεόφιλο Μπεκέ, ο οποίος ήταν στο πλευρό του Ηλία Παπαθεοδώρου.
Ο έμπειρος τεχνικός ήταν στο πλευρό του Ηλία Παπαθεοδώρου στον πάγκο της Νέας Κηφισιάς την τελευταία 3ετία και η συνεισφορά του στις επιτυχίες της ομάδας μας ήταν πολύτιμη.

Nea Kifisia released Sioutis and Petrodimopoulos

Nea Kifisia announced the releases of Thodoris Sioutis and Christos Petrodimopoulos. The team thanked both players for their characters and games. This is the first step of the new season's preparation for Nea Kifisia.

Panathinaikos released Mačiulis, Lasme, Bramos, Curry and Ping

Panathinaikos BC announced that the club used the option out in the contracts of Jonas Mačiulis, Stephane Lasme, Mike Bramos, Ramel Curry and Shang Ping. Those five players are now released from the club and are free to negotiate with other teams. Shang Ping was long ago out of the team plans but anyway he became the first Chinese player to win the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup. Panathinaikos may start negotiations with Mike Bramos but not with the rest four players.

Spyros Mourtos renews with Aris for 3 years

Aris BC announced that Spyros Mourtos will continue to play for the club for 3 more years. Mourtos played 26 games with Aris in Greek Basket League 2013-2014 and had 6 points in 22 minutes per game in average.