Basketball

He is one of the most famous, well paid, internationally recognisable NBA stars in the world, but Giannis Antetokounmpo is primarily a very simple guy - not to mention a really good kid. Giannis has never allowed fame, money, or...

NBA star Hollis Thompson is bringing his talents to Greece and Piraeus. Unable to settle a deal with an NBA team this summer, Thompson has decided to go overseas for the first time in his career, as it was announced...

With a comfortable 92 - 64 win over Great Britain, the Greece basketball team concluded the Patras friendly tournament, ahead of its official games for the upcoming Eurobasket 2017 competition, which kicks off on August 31. Greece set the tone...

In the summer of 2014, Dinos Mitoglou showed up unexpectedly from Greece to play basketball at Wake Forest. Three summers later, Mitoglou is leaving unexpectedly to play basketball in Greece. Mitoglou has signed a four-year contract with Panathinaikos in Athens,...

Greece’s Deaf Women's Basketball team celebrated a gold medal win on Saturday at the Deaflympics taking place in Turkey. In the final of the tournament, Greece beat Lithuania 67-50. At the end of the third quarter there was only a point...

The Greek men's Under 20 basketball team beat Israel 65-56 in Sunday’s final at Iraklio, Crete becoming the 2017 FIBA U20 European Champion. The Greek team made the most of the home advantage at the Dyo Aorakia arena to win...

Greece’s National Women’s Basketball Team fought for the bronze medal against Belgium in Prague today but was defeated 78-45 at the 2017 Eurobasket. Kostas Keramidas’s players made an enthusiastic effort to clinch third place in the basketball playoffs but were not...

“I know nothing else but Greece. I have never been to Nigeria. You are not born a Greek, you become a Greek,” Giannis Antetokounmpo said at the Onassis Cultural Center with his 24-year-old brother Thanasis at his side. The two...

Greece's National Women's Basketball team was defeated by France 77-55 at the 2017 Eurobasket competition in Prague on Saturday. Kostas Keramidas's players, playing without stress, were not able to  repeat a game with a grand victory as they had against...

Greece's women's national basketball team beat Turkey by 29 points on Thursday, making it to the semifinals of the 2017 Eurobasket in the Czech Republic as well as to the next World Championships, as reported by ekathimerini. Led by Evina...

Panathinaikos found victory against Olympiakos in the last of the best-of-five matches for the league title on Sunday evening at the Peace and Friendship Stadium. With a final score of 66-51, the Greens, coached by Xavi Pascual, took the title. Olympiakos...

On Sunday Olympiakos rose to the occasion closing a 10-point deficit against Panathinaikos in the last five minutes of the game to win Game 3 of the Basket League final series with a final score of 64-62. With this win...

#WeAreAllBros! is the hashtag chosen for the Antetokounmpos Event to be held on June 16 in Thessaloniki and on June 25 in Athens. Giannis Antetokounmpo is a world-famous Greek professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball...

Fenerbahce was the big winner of the Euroleague Championship after beating Olympiacos 80-64 in Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul on Sunday night. Fenerbahce came to the court as the absolute favorite against the Greek champions who travelled to Istanbul as...

Olympiakos has advanced to Sunday's Euroleague final after beating CSKA Moscow 82-78 on Friday in Istanbul. The Reds will be facing the winner of the other semifinal between Real Madrid and Fenerbahce. Players Spanoulis, Costas Papanikolao and Girogos Printezis...