Aris signed Jerel McNeal

Aris signed Jerel McNeal. The 28 years old American guard penned an one year contract. McNeal graduated from Hillcrest High School. He went undrafted in the 2009 NBA draft, and continued to Belgium for Dexia Mons-Hainaut for a year before returning to USA for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. In the next year he played in Italy for Sutor Basket Montegranaro. After many short contracts with NBA and NBA D-League teams he played 15 games in China with  Zhejiang Golden Bulls and on April 1st 2015 he signed a ten days contract with Phoenix Suns debuting in theNBA against Golden State Warriors. 

Panelefsiniakos signed Nemanja Mitrovic

Panelefsiniakos signed Nemanja Mitrović. The 24 years old Bosnian Canadian guard is 197cm high and member of Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He graduated from Portland where he played four years for the Portland Pilots and in the previous season he played in Italy for Sutor Montegranaro. Mitrović will replace Frank Robinson who left the team.

Olympiacos signed Mardy Collins

Olympiacos signed Maurice Rodney "Mardy" Collins. Ace Law is injured and will not be playing for about one and a half month, so Olympiacos searched and made another addition to its roster. Mardy Collins is 29 years old, 198 centimeters high and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Temple University and was Knicks draftee in 2006, pick number 26 overall. As a professional he has played for New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA. Then he played for Bornova Belediye in Turkey, Jiangsu Dragons in China, Los Angeles D-Fenders in NBA-D League, Maccabi Ashdod in Israel, Guaros de Lara in Venezuela and finally for Sutor Montegranaro in Italy. With Sutor Montegranaro Collins played a friendly against Olympiacos and scored 12 points. In the same tournament Collins was the top scorer of Sutor Montegranaro against Rethymno Aegean with 24 points and 2 three pointers.

Sutor Montegranaro defeated Rethymno Aegean

Sutor Basket Montegranaro defeated Rethymno Aegean BC with 74-91 and finished third in Patras Cup. Hurtt scored 24 points but that wasn't enough since Mayo's 15 points and Collins 24 points gave a clear score for the Italian team.

Quarters' scores were 22-18, 37-32, 49-60, 74-91.

 Rethymno Aegean (AGOR): Hurtt 24(3), Kallinikidis , Koumpouras 4, Aggelopoulos 14(1), Pruitt 9(2), Antonopoulos, Kalampokis 7, Kanonidis, Sinis, Gabriel 5(1), Latovic , Kwame 11(1), Doulgerakis.

Sutor Basket Montegranaro: Vragovic 2, Cinciarini 14(2), Mayo 15(3), Lawers 8, Quaglia , Collins 24(2), Skeen 9, Tessitore 3, Ghiacci, Mazzola 8, Ricci, Sakic

Olympiacos defeated Montegranaro in Patras Cup

Olympiacos BC defeated Sutor Basket Montegranaro with 88-74 in the second game of Patras Cup. For Olympiacos Dunston scored 14 points while Matt Lojeski and Katsivelis both scored 12 points. 

Olympiacos BC: Petway 6, Agravanis 6, Dunston 14, Mantzaris 9, Christodoulou 8, Papapetrou 6, Ioakimidis 3, Simmons 10, Lojeski 12, Katsivelis 12, Kakiouzis 2, Georgakis. 

Sutor Basket Montegranaro: Vragovic 4, Cinciarini 11, Mayo 15, Lawers 8, Quaglia 5, Collins 12, Skeen 13, Tessitore 6, Ghiacci, Mazzola, Ricci, Sakic

In the final Olympiacos will play with Apollon Patras and Sutor Montegranaro with Rethymno Aegean.

Apollon Patras will host Patras cup friendly tournament

Apollon Patras will host Patras Cup friendly basketball tournament. Besides Apollon Patras also Olympiacos BC, Rethymno Aegean BC (AGOR) and Sutor Basket Montegranaro will participate in the tournament. 

Patras Cup schedule

Saturday 14/9/13
18:00 Olympiacos BC - Sutor Montegranaro
20.00 Apollon Patras – AGOR Rethymno Aegean BC

 

Sunday 15/9/13
18:00 Small Final (places 3-4)
20:00 Big Final (places 1-2)