Aris sign Zisis Sarikopoulos

Aris sign Zisis Sarikopoulos. The 27 years old Greek center graduated from Ohio State and went undrafted in the 2010 NBA Draft. Sarikopoulos started his professional career with Panionios and has also played for Aris, Marousi, AEK, and Promitheas Patron. In the previous season Sarikopoulos played 22 games for the Basket League Greece with Promitheas, averaging 5.1 points and 3.2 rebounds per game.

Promitheas signed Sarikopoulos

Promitheas Patron signed Zisis Sarikopoulos. The 26 years old Greek center parted ways with AEK, where he played in the last two years. Sarikopoulos has played for Marousi, Panionios, Aris, and AEK. In 21 games with AEK for Basket League Greee 2015-2016 Sarikopoulos averaged 2.29 points and 2.43 rebounds in 8 minutes per game.

Panathinaikos beat AEK for Basket League sixteenth day

Panathinaikos beat AEK for Basket League Greece 2014-2015 sixteenth day. AEK started with 7-1 run, Panathinaikos balanced the game but the first half finished with AEK leading the score. AEK was bad in three pointers, 2/14, and Panathinaikos took the lead and created a secure difference. For AEK Pops Mensah-Bonsu made a double double with 18 points, 11 rebounds and 8 fouls drawn. Malik Hairston and Dusan Sakota scored 12 points each and Zisis Sarikopoulos collected 8 rebounds. Carl English had 1/8 three pointers and made 6 turnovers. For Panathinaikos Esteban Batista made a double double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. James Gist scored 13 points, Antonis Fotsis collected 7 rebounds, Dimitris Diamantidis served 6 assists. AJ Slaughter had 12 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals. DeMarcus Nelson made 5 turnovers out of 19 team turnovers.
Quarters' scores: 11-15, 28-27, 39-50, 62-70  

AEK (Sakota): Papantoniou 1, Delininkaitis 2, Sakota 12 (2), Kaselakis 5 (1), Hairston 12 (1), Sarikopoulos 4, Athinaiou 5 (1), Milosevic, Bonsu 18, English 3(1)
Panathinaikos (Ivanovic): Charalampopoulos 3(1), Slaughter 12 (1), Bochoridis, Giankovits 7 (1), Fotsis 3, Nelson 6, Pappas 2, Mavrokefalidis, Diamantidis 8 (2), Gist 13 (1), Batista 16, Papagiannis.

Aries Trikala beat AEK for Basket League tenth day

Aries Trikala hosted and beat AEK for Basket League tenth day. Aries Trikala was in the bottom of the League table but AEK had only one road victory. The game started with a 25 minutes delay due to fights between the police and AEK fans, with the police throwing tear gas inside the closed court which created problems in the breathing. AEK with Car English was leading the score by 11 points, 19-30, but the home team managed to counter attack and celebrated a great victory. The game was a fight between Aries Trikala's Kenny Kadji and AEK's Carl English, both of them finished the game with a double double, 33 points and 11 rebounds for English, 21 points and 11 rebounds for Kadji. For the winners Ntinos Nikolopoulos had 13 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Justin Ingram had 14 points but with 3/9 field goals. For AEK Dusan Sakota had 15 points, 6 rebounsd and 5 assists, Ziris Sarikopoulos had 8 points and 5 rebounds, Giannis Athinaiou had 11 points and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores:19-24, 44-40, 60-64, 87-83

Aries Trikala (Flevarakis): Ingram 14, Nikolopoulos 13, Tracey 3, Bowie 5, Cupkovic 13, Panos 3, Spanos 7, Matalon 5, Kadji 21, Hodzic 3.
AEK (Sakota): Papantoniou, Delininkaitis 8, Sakota 15, Kaselakis 2, Williamson 6, Tsiakos, Sarikopoulos 8, Athinaiou 11, Milosevic, English 33.

AEK beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League eighth day

AEK hosted and beat Kolossos Rodou for Basket League eighth day. The first half was tight but in the third quarter AEK with partial score 30-16 created a secure difference. For the winners Carl English had 28 points, 7 assists and 7 fouls drawn. Dusan Sakota had 24 points and 7 rebounds, Zisis Sarikopoulos had 17 points and 8 rebounds, Tomas Delininkaitisi had 11 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. For Kolossos Rodou Mike James had 23 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Taylor Smith had 9 points, 9 rebounds and 4 blocks, Aggelos Tsamis had 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.
Quarters' scores: 23-21, 41-41, 71-57, 96-73

AEK: Delininkaitis 11, Sakota 24, Kaselakis 3, Polytarchou 2, Kamperidis, Williamson 7, Tsiakos, Sarikopoulos 17, Boutris, Milosevic 4, English 28, Nikolic.
Kolossos Rodou: Larentzakis 2, Siologkas, Jamar 8, James 23, Smith 9, Stefanidis, Liden, Tsamis 14, Haggins 3, Buljan 14.

Olympiacos beat AEK for Basket League fourth day

Olympiacos beat AEK in OAKA for Basket League fourth day.  In the debut of Sfairopoulos with Olympiacos AEK managed to trouble the reds in the first quarters with a 9-4 lead and 15-14 first quarter score. In the second quarter Olympiacos took the lead with Vasilis Spanoulis having 14 points in the first half. The home team counter attacked again in the third quarter but could not follow in the last and Olympiacos won by 19 points. Great game by Vasilis Spanoulis with 14 points and 5 assists and Othello Hunter had 6 points and 7 rebounds. For AEK Dusan Sakota had 15 points, Zisis Sarikopoulos had 7 points and 6 rebounds, Leonidas Kaselakis had 10 points.
Quarters' scores: 15-14, 30-44, 52-65, 62-81.

AEK (Ziagkos): Papantoniou 4, Kyles, Sakota 15(1), Kaselakis 10(1), Polytarchou, Wright 6, Kamperidis, Williamson 3, Tsiakos 3, Sarikopoulos 7, Milosevic 5 (1), English 9 (1).
Olympiacos (Sfairopoulos): Petway 8(2), Hunter 6, Dunston 5, Spanoulis 22(2), Sloukas 9, Lafayette 7(1), Lojeski 9(1), Agravanis 7(2), Mantzaris 8(2), Kavvadas, Katsivelis.

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.

AEK beat Panionios for Basket League second day

AEK hosted and defeated Panionios for Basket League second day. Both teams faced financial and management problems this summer but AEK solved them earlier than Panionios who is still forming its roster. This was the first Basket League home game for AEK after the team was relegated to A2 division and the fans were waiting for it. AEK dominated the first quarter and finished it with double score plus one point, 27-13, and continued like this in the second quarter. In the first half AEK had 7/11 three pointers with David Kyles having 11 points while for Panionios only Yaroslav Korolev had 10 points. Panionios started second half with a 7-0 run and lowered the difference up to 8 points, 50-42, AEK expanded it back to two digits but with four free throws in the end Panionios finished the third quarter only seven points behing the home team. In the last quarter AEK made a 7-0 run and restored the difference to two digits score up to the end. AEK made its first victory for the Basket League 2014-2015 and Panionios doubled its defeats. For AEK Dusan Sakota scored 18 points, David Kyles and Leonidas Kaselakis scored 11 points each while Zisis Sarikopoulos collected 10 rebounds and scored 8 points. For Panionios Vasilis Xanthopoulos scored 16 points, Yaroslav Korolev scored 15 points and collected 9 rebounds, Tony Woods scored 14 points and collected 9 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 27-13, 47-27, 60-53, 77-64.

AEK: Papantoniou 9, Kyles 11, Sakota 18, Kaselakis 11, Polytarchou 6, Wright 9, Kamperidis, Williamson 2, Tsiakos, Sarikopoulos 8, Milosevic 3, Goodrigde.
Panionios: Xanthopoulos 16, Verginis 8, Koukoulas, Spyropoulos, Strnad 3, Motsenigos, Bilis, Stamatis, Woods 14, Fitzpatrick 8, Korolev 15, Moraitis.

Korivos Amaliadas beat AEK for Basket League first day

Korivos Amaliadas hosted and defeated AEK for Basket League first day. It was the game between the two newly promoted teams from A2 League but Korivos Amaliadas was playing home and AEK was most experienced team in A1 League. For Korivos Amaliadas, who celebrated its first victory in the Basket League, Rob Lowery scored 18 points, Darrius Garett had 9 points and 8 rebounds, Josh Maggete 10 points and 5 assists. Milan Milošević who recently signed with AEK started the new season with a double double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, also Ziris Sarikopoulos made a double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Quarters' scores: 22-10, 41-37, 55-55, 80-67.

Korivos Amaliadas: Maggette 10, Robert 18, Giannakidis 10, Angelopoulos 6, Papapetrou, Davis 3, Vasiljevic 11, Kanonidis 9, Filippakos, Garrett 9, Dmitriev, Galliotos 4.
AEK: Papantoniou 6, Kyles 1, Sakota 13, Kaselakis 2, Polytarchou 8, Papadionysiou, Wright 5, Kamperidis, Williamson 2, Sarikopoulos 14, Milosevic 16, Goodridge.

Aris beat AEK for Greek Cup

Aris beat AEK in Thessaloniki for Greek Basketball Cup. The home team was leading the game in the whole game. Dusan Sakota and Nontas Papantoniou of AEK did their best to win the game but in the end the home team scored all crucial free throws and secured the victory. For Aris Aleksandar Vezenkov had 22 points and 10 rebounds and LeMarcus Reed had 17 points, 6 steals and 4 steals. Besides Papantoniou and Sakota, Zisis Sarikopoulos made a double double with 12 points and 13 rebounds against his former team. Aris qualified to the next round where will play against Nea Kifisia in Athens.
Quarters' scores: 20-11, 35-31, 52-48, 63-57.

Aris BC (Priftis): Pasalic 7, Manolopoulos, Mourtos, Simtsak, Gkikas, Reed 17, Thomas 9, Charisis 1, Karathanasis, Vezenkov 22 (10 reb), Naymick 7.
AEK BC (Ziagkos): Papantoniou 17, Kyles 3, Sakota 13, Kaselakis 8 (9 reb), Polytarchou 1, Papadionysiou, Goodridge, Kamperidis, Williamson 3, Tsiakos, Sarikopoulos 12 (13 reb)

Aries Trikala defeated Aris for Greek League twelfth day

Aries Trikala hosted and defeated Aris for Greek League twelfth day. First quarter was great for the hosting team that scored 27 points and managed to keep the difference until the half time. In the 35th minute Sarikopoulos gave Aris the lead for the first time with one point, 40-41. Third quarter finished with equal score 50-50 but in the beginning of the fourth quarter Aries Trikala made a 10-3 run and regained a small difference. Aris lowered the difference with Sarikopoulos, Athinaiou and Vezenkov. In the last minute the scored was 66-60. Then Aris scored a three pointer with Pelekanos, two points with Sarikopoulos and another three pointer with Sarikopoulos, taking the lead by 66-68. Aries Trikala didn't score, Sarikopoulos missed two free shots but home team didn't score again and Athinaiou made the score 66-69. Jeremy Granger scored a three pointer in the last second and the game finished equal in normal time. Aris collected more rebounds than Aries Trikala in the normal time (28-42) but the hosting team had an almost perfect game with only 6 turnovers! In the extra time Jeremy Granger and Patrick Ewing Junior scored 6 points in a row before Athinaiou and Sarikopoulos counter attack with their 5 points in a row. Great game in the extra time too. The game ended with a dunk from Patrick Ewing Junior and Aries Trikala winning after a quality game. Patrick Ewing Junior scored 20 points and collected 8 rebounds. Jeremy Granger scored 21 points and collected 5 rebounds. For Aris, Sarikopoulos Zisis with 13 points and 9 rebounds, Athinaiou Giannis with 21 points and 7 assists and Pelekanos Michalis 18 points and 8 rebounds were the top players.

Quarters' scores: 27-17, 38-31, 50-50, 69-69. Extra-time: 82-76.

Aries Trikala: Evans 9, Perunicic, Ewing 20, Giannakidis 5, Petrovic 9, Granger 21, Deligiannis 8, Matalon 5, Fountas, Nikolopoulos, Georgakis 2, Mutakabbir 3.

Aris: Bochoridis 7, Hunt, Pelekanos 18, Tsakaleris, Asimakopoulos 2, Poulianitis, Charisis 6, Laretzakis, Vezenkov 7, Sarikopoulos 13, Mourtos 2, Athinaiou 21.

Zisis Sarikopoulos renews with Aris BC

Zisis Sarikopoulos renewed his contract with Aris BC. The 23 years old Greek center played 22 games in regular season with Aris BC and had an average of 4.8 points per game and 3.3 rebounds per game in 13.6 minutes per game.