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.

Panathinaikos swept PAOK and qualified to the League Finals

Panathinaikos swept PAOK and qualified to the Basket League Greece Finals. PAOK was competitive but not as good as in the first two games that took place in Athens and Panathinaikos qualified to the finals with a sweep. Michalis Tsairelis finished the game with a double double, 11 points and 10 rebounds. DJ Cooper had 14 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. For Panathinaikos Ramel Curry and Dimitris Diamantidis finished the game with 17 points each. Roko Leni Ukic had 8 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. 
Quarters' scores: 16-16, 37-38, 53-58, 65-72.

PAOK: Payne 8, Cooper 14, Charalampidis 10, Tsochlas, Vucicevic, Tsairelis 11, Dedas 5, Margaritis 5, Bogris 10, Kaselakis 2, Koniaris.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 6, Curry 17, Fotsis 3, Ukic 8, Lasme 3, Mavrokefalidis 5, Diamantidis 17, Gist 8, Giankovits, Maciulis, Wright 5.

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras for Greek League 26th day

Panathinaikos beat Apollon Patras in Patras for Greek Basket League 26th day. In the first round game Apollon Patras troubled Panathinaikos and so it did in this game in the first half. Apollon Patras was leading the score in the first and second quarters but with 13-31 partial score in the third quarter Panathinaikos counter attacked and won the game by 16 points. Panathinaikos had an impressive 79% (26/33) two pointers while both teams were good in three pointers, 12/23 for the home team and 10/24 for the away team. For Apollon Patras Roland Ross had 16 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, while Giannis Molfetas was the top scorer with 19 points and 5/5 three pointers. For Panathinaikos Stephane Lasme was perfect with 21 points, 8/8 field goals, 5/5 free throws, 4 rebounds and 7 fouls drawn. Ramel Curry scored 18 points and Loukas Mavrokefalidis scored 12 points while Roko Leni Ukić had 4 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. 
Quarters' scores: 23-15, 45-44, 58-75, 79-95.

Apollon Patras:  Ross 16, Argyropoulos 10, Kaperonis 3, Daniel 9, Wilson 10, Lianos 4, Oikonomopoulos, Petrovic, Molfetas 19, Niforas 2, Milutinovic 3, Hot 3.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 9, Curry 18, Fotsis 5, Ukic 4, Lasme 21, Mavrokefalidis 12, Diamantidis 2, Gist 8, Pappas 5, Giankovits, Maciulis 3, Wright 8.

Ramel Curry injured and will be out for a month

Ramel Curry suffers from a bone edema in the ankle and will be out for a month. Panathinaikos announced in its official twitter account that Ramel Curry injured in the game against Olympiacos and will be out of action for about a month.

Εκτός ο Κάρι για περίπου ένα μήνα (οστικό οίδημα στην ποδοκνημική). Στην προπόνηση ο Ράιτ.
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) February 21, 2014

Panathinaikos lost by Unicaja Malaga for Euroleague Top 16

Panathinaikos lost by Unicaja Malaga for Euroleague Top 16. Panathinaikos had a good first half but was bad in the last quarter and lost its third game in a row. Unicaja Malaga had 15/27 three pointers and 32 rebounds. Panathinaikos with 9/22 three pointers and only 19 rebounds couldn't ask for more. Now Panathinaikos has to win Olympiacos in the next game in order to get back on qualification track.
Quarters' scores: 20-23, 44-42, 61-57, 87-71.

Unicaja Malaga: Sabonis 3, Vidal 4, Urtasun, Suarez, Granger 16, Vazquez 6, Toolson 20, Kuzminskas 5, Dragic 4, Hettsheimeir, Caner-Medley 21, Stimac 8.
Panathinaikos: Bramos 12, Curry 14, Batiste 4, Fotsis 4, Ukic, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 10, Gist, Pappas, Giankovits, Mačiulis 13.

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.

Panathinaikos won Olympiacos for Greek League 14th day

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Olympiacos for Greek Basket League 14th day. Olympiacos defeated Panathinaikos in OAKA in the previous season with 60-64 score and also won in the first round game in Piraeus. Panathinaikos starting five were Diamantidis, Ukić, Mačiulis, Gist and Lasme. Starting five for Olympiacos were Mantzaris, Spanoulis, Lojeski, Printezis and Dunston.The game started with three consecutive missed three pointers, two for Olympiacos and one for Panathinaikos. Then Giorgos Printezis scored four points. Panathinaikos scored after 3 minutes in the game with Stephane Lasme, Roko Leni Ukić equalized the score and Ramel Curry gave the lead to Panathinaikos for the first time with 7-4 score. Vasilis Spanoulis with his first three pointer gave the lead to Olympiaocs by 9-10 but Ramel Curry with his second three pointer replied. Panathinaikos had 3/6 three pointers, while Olympiacos only 1/8 in the first quarter. Ramel Curry had 10 points in the first quarter. Olympiacos started second quarter with a 5-0 run and equalized the score, 17-17. Panathinaikos scored 3 points in the first 7 minutes of the second quarter, but then scored 6 points in a row. First half finished with Panathinaikos ahead in score by two points, 27-25. Mat Lojeski finished first half with 8 points and 5 rebounds. Olympiacos' coach Bartzokas was charged with a technical foul after the half time, due to complaining at coaches' decisions. In the second half Dimitris Diamantidis was charged with his third foul and Olympiacos took the lead with 28-31. Stephane Lasme felt sick and remained in the bench for the third quarter. Panathinaikos with a 5-0 run took back the lead by two, 35-33. With another 5-0 run in the end of the third quarter Panathinaikos finished ahead by 4, 41-37. The two teams were nervous in the last minutes with 6 consecutive turnovers from both teams to keep the score in low levels. Dimitris Diamantidis scored his first three pointer of the game and gave his team ten points lead, 52-42, two minutes before the end. Panathinaikos won a tight game and secured the first place of the Greek Basket League normal season. Olympiacos had a poor 13% in three pointer and made three more turnovers than Panathinaikos, 19 vs 16. For Panathinaikos Ramel Curry was the top scorer with 12 points. Dimitris Diamantidis had 10 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals. James Gist and Antonis Fotsis had 6 rebounds each. For Olympiacos Matt Lojeski scored 10 points and had 8 rebounds, with Bryant Dunston having 8 points and 8 rebounds. Vasilis Spanoulis had 3 points with 1/8 three pointers and 0/2 two pointers.

Quarters' scores: 17-12, 27-25, 41-37, 58-48.

Dimitris Diamantidis today vs Olympiacos at OAKA @ESAKE_OPAP pic.twitter.com/K0whAzQ2kO
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) January 20, 2014

Panathinaikos: Bramos 9, Curry 12, Batiste, Fotsis 6, Ukić 2, Lasme 4, Mavrokefalidis 2, Diamantidis 10, Gist 10, Pappas, Giankovits, Mačiulis 3.

Olympiacos: Moon, Dunston 8, Spanoulis 3, Perperoglou 4, Sloukas 4, Collins 2, Simmons 3, Lojeski 10, Printezis 8, Mantzaris 6, Kavvadas, Katsivelis.

Panathinaikos defeated Anadolu Efes for Euroleague Top 16

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Anadolu Efes for Euroleague Top 16. This was the third victory for Panathinaikos and the third defeat for Anadolu Efes in three games in the Euroleague Top 16. The captain Dimitris Diamantidis was the top scorer of Panathinaikos with 17 points and 9 assists. Stephane Lasme followed with 16 points and 8 rebounds. For Efes Anadolu Dusko Savanovic and Zoran Planinic were the best players.

Quarters' scores: 23-21, 37-36, 60-54, 78-64.

@slasme tonight at OAKA @euroleague #PAOBCvsEFES pic.twitter.com/7FgHjmRAC0
— Panathinaikos BC (@paobcgr) January 17, 2014

Panathinaikos Athens: Bramos, Curry 12, Batiste 6, Fotsis 6, Ukic 6, Lasme 16, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 17, Gist 11, Pappas, Giankovits 1, Maciulis 3.

Anadolu Efes: Balbay 11, Osman, Vasileiadis 8, Batuk 3, Erden 4, Gonlum, Kilicli, Savanovic 11, Gordon 6, Planinic 13, Kosut, Bjelica 8.

Kolossos Rodou lost by Panathinaikos for Greek League tenth day

Kolossos Rodou hosted Panathinaikos for Greek League tenth day. In the first quarter Panathinaikos had 4/9 three pointers and Kolossos 6/8 free throws. Kolossos had 6 turnovers and 6 fouls in the first ten minutes. Kolosos Rodou was better in the second quarter with Bambale Osby leading the game. Taylor Smith gave the lead to Kolossos but James Gist with a three pointer and a dunk finished the first half with Panathinaikos ahead in score. James Gist had 2/2 and Mike Bramos 3/3 three pointers in the first half. Third quarter was the quarter of Ramel Curry and Stephane Lasme against Bambale Osby. For Kolossos Rodou Nestoras Kommatos and Bambale Osby had a good game, each player scored 14 points and collected 5 rebounds. For Panathinaikos James Gist finished the game with 12 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists.
Quarters' scores: 14-20, 34-38, 43-58, 58-73.

Kolossos Rodou: Papantoniou 7, Rum, Matsamas, Georgalis 5, Kommatos 14, Smith 7, Stefanidis 8, Simpson 3, Osby 14, Kapelan, Danas.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos, Bramos 9, Curry 14, Batiste, Fotsis 8, Ukić 13, Lasme 6, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis , Gist 12, Jankovits 6, Apostolidis.

Panathinaikos defeated Crvena Zvezda for Euroleague

Panathinaikos hosted and defeated Crvena Zvezda for Euroleague. This was the second win for Panathinaikos against Red Star for Euroleague, after winning in extra time in Beograd. Panathinaikos was following in the score in the beginning of the game but couldn't stand another defeat. With Ramel Curry the Greek team managed and took the lead 37-34. James Gist was the next to keep Panathinaikos in game until Mike Bramos finished the game in the end. Difficult victory for Panathinaikos but still a victory. Jonas Mačiulis was injured in the game and will loose next games of Panathinaikos.
 Quarters' scores: 20-21, 37-34, 53-48, 69-63.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 8, Curry 16, Batiste 8, Fotsis, Ukić 4, Lasme 2, Mavrokefalidis 4, Diamantidis 4, Gist 15, Giankovits, Mačiulis 8.
Crvena zvezda: Cvetković, Lazić 3, Blažič, Simonović 2, Marjanović 8, Radenović 6, Katić 13, Nelson 16, Jenkins 5, Schilb 10.

Panathinaikos defeated Nea Kifisia for Greek League fifth day

Panathinaikos defeated Nea Kifisia for the fifth day of Greek Basketball League. Panathinaikos started the game with energy and a lot of three pointers, finished the first quarter with18 points difference that kept until the end. Panathinaikos had 15/27 three pointer and 15/26 two pointers. For Nea Kifisia Tony Crocker scored 20 points and collected 7 rebounds. For Panathinaikos all players except Shang Ping scored.

Quarters' scores: 10-28, 27-45, 42-67, 65-88.

Nea Kifisia: Vasiljević 13, Liakopoulos 7, Chatzinikolas, Diamantopoulos 2, Crocker 20, Kompodietas, Menoudakos, Sioutis 3, Garrett 2, Woods 3, Adegboye 4, Barlos 7.

Panathinaikos: Bramos 3, Curry 18, Fotsis 6, Ukić 9, Lasme 5, Mavrokefalidis 9, Diamantidis 7, Gist 14, Pappas 9, Jankovits 3, Ping, Mačiulis 5.

Panathinaikos defeated Aries Trikala for the third day of Greek Basketball League

Aries Trikala hosted Panathinaikos for the third day of the Greek Basketball League. Aries Trikala haven't any victory in the first two games and as coach Flevarakis said could only gain experiences from this match. Starting five for Aries Trikala were Granger, Mutakabbir, Perunicic, Kommatas and Deligiannis. Starting five for Panathinaikos were Pappas, Diamantidis, Mačiulis, Gist and Mavrokefalidis. Granger opened the score with a two pointer but Diamantidis scored a three pointer and Panathinaikos took the lead. Panathinaikos had 2/2 free throws, 2/2 two pointer and 2/2 three pointer in the first three minutes where the score were 3-13 and before Gist missing the first shot for Panathinaikos. James Gist had 4 steals in the first 5 minutes and Jeremy Granger 3 turnovers and 1 unsportsmanlike foul. Trikala scored 3 three pointers but Panathinaikos finished the first quarter ahead by 17, 12-29. Stephane Lasme was flawless in the first quarter. The second quarter started with a goal-foul from Georgakis and two three pointers from Matalon, so the difference dropped to 8, 21-29. Gist scored the first points for Panathinaikos 4 minutes after second quarter started. Two three pointers from Panathinaikos and the difference was back to 16, 21-37. Trikala improved in the second quarter and the half time finished with 11 points difference. Panathinaikos tightened its defense in the third quarter and the difference flew up to 39 points, 30-69. In the last two minutes Trikala scored 7 points in a row and the third quarter finished with 42-73. Trikala scored 3 three pointers in the final minute and the difference stopped at 20 points, final score 68-88. Argyris Pedoulakis gave time to Charalampopoulos, Shang Ping. Jeremy Granger and Nestoras Kommatos were the best players for Trikala, with Matalon adding 9 points from three pointers. For Panathinaikos all players available played, only Mavrokefalidis and Ping didn't score but four players finished the game with more than 10 points. Vlantimir Giankovits finished the game with double double, 17 points and 10 rebounds.

Quarters' scores: 12-29, 26-47, 42-73, 68-88.

Aries Trikala: Perunicic, Ewing 2, Giannakidis 5, Petrovic 5, Kommatos 9, Granger 23, Deligiannis 1, Matalon 11, Fountas, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis 3, Mutakabbir 9.
Panathinaikos: Charalampopoulos 3, Bramos 7, Curry 14, Fotsis 5, Lasme 10, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 3, Gist 7, Pappas 15, Giankovits 17, Ping, Mačiulis 7.

Panathinaikos lost by Lietuvos Rytas at Euroleague day one

Lietuvos Rytas hosted and defeated Panathinaioks in Vilnius, Lithuania for the first day of Euroleague 2013-2014. Two players of Lietuvos Rytas have previously played for Panathinaikos, Andreas Glyniadakis and Milenko Tepić. Mike Bramos stayed back in Athens. Lietuvos was the last team to participate in Euroleague after qualification games and during preparation won Aris. Gist scored the first points for Panathinaikos and was the main scored for his team in the first quarter. Lietuvos led the score by scoring three points and free throws and created a difference of six points 17-11. Panathinaikos than ran a 8-0 score with Ukić and Mavrokefalidis. The Greek center had a good first quarter in offense and defense. Panathinaikos low accuracy in three points and Lietuvos Rytas just one turnover were the stat highlights of the quarter. Mike Batiste reached 10 points, Ukić 4 assists while Omar Cook had 8 points and 4 assists in the first half. The third quarter started from zero. Panathinaikos didn't improve its accuracy and turnovers so Lietuvos Rytas gained a small difference of 4 points in the first five minutes of the third quarter but Panathinaikos managed to finish the quarter leading the score. Dimitris Diamantidis had 1/7 three points shots, 0/2 free throws but on the other hand he served 7 assists and scored 4 points in the last 20 seconds, leading the game to extra time. Andreas Glyniadakis made 3 fouls and 1 block in seven minutes but didn't score. Seibutis had a weird game with 4/4 three points shots and 2/7 two points shots. In the extra time Panathinaikos ran a quick 4-0 with Mačiulis and Ukić. But then Lietuvos Rytas ran a 6-0 with Babrauskas scoring 5 points and Darius Songaila scoring one free throw but missing three in a row. 21 seconds before the end Gist with a dunk made the score 82-83. Renaldas Seibutis scored 5.5 seconds before the end and the score changed to 84-83. Argyris Pedoulakis called a time out for Panathinaikos' last offense of 5 seconds. Ukić missed a three points shot and the ball was out for Panathinaikos at 0.4 seconds. Mike Batiste lost the last shot and Panathinaikos lost the game by 84-83.
Quarters' scores: 25-25, 42-42, 59-60, 74-74. Extra time: 84-83

Panathinaikos: Curry 12, Batiste 12, Fotsis 3, Ukić 8, Lasme 4, Mavrokefalidis 10, Diamantidis 6,
Gist 10, Pappas 5, Giankovits, Mačiulis 13.

Lietuvos Rytas: Tepić 6, Babrauskas 10, Palacios 12, Seibutis 19, Glyniadakis, Gecevicius 7,
Orelik, Lideka, Cook 10, Bendzius, Songaila 13, Jelovac 7

Panathinaikos BC roster 2013-2014

Panathinaikos president Dimitris Giannakopoulos announced that Panathinaikos' roster for the season 2013-2014 is complete. (Update with Batiste addition, Skordilis dismiss, Apostolidis and Zack Wright addition)

Currently the team has 16 players. 

#6 Bramos Michael 

#7 Ramel Curry 

#8 Batiste Michael

#9 Fotsis Antonis 

#10 Ukić Roko 

#11 Lasme Stephane
#12 Mavrokefalidis Loukas

#13 Diamantidis Dimitris 

#14 Gist James

#15 Pappas Nikos

#16 Giankovits Vlantimir

#18 Mačiulis Jonas

 #18 Charalampopoulos Vassilis

# Diamantakos Georgios

# Ping Shang
# Apostolidis Giorgos
#Zack Wright

Average age is 27, the youngest player is Vassilis Charalampopoulos aged 16 and oldest is Mike Batiste aged 35, followed by the captain Dimitris Diamantidis aged 33 (same age with Ramel Curry).

The American point guard Curry is the shortest with a height of 1.92m / 6ft 4in, while the tallest is the young center Georgios Diamantakos with a height of 2.14m / 7ft

Panathinaikos' roster is a mixture of six nationalities that come from four different continents. Six players are from Greece, three from USA, one from Croatia, one from Lithuania, one from Gabon and one from China.

Panathinaikos signed 6 new players, 4 Greeks, one Chinese and one American, while the team released 5 players, 4 Greeks and one American. Kostas Tsartsaris retired, Antonis Fotsis returned after a year in Olimpia Milano and Mike Batiste after a year in Turkey and Fenerbahce Ulker. Giankovits and Pappas both acquired from Panionios BC, both young promising Greek players.

Head coach Argyris Pedoulakis named as "Coach of the Year" for the Greek Basketball League for third time (2001, 2003, 2013), reaching Željko Obradović who also has won the award three times.

All Greek Basketball League 2013-2014 team rosters here.