Basketball

With the FIBA EuroBasket 2015 fast approaching, the Men’s Greek Basketball Team is in full preparation mode and Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of their leading stars. The Greek team were won a 78-60 victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina in a...

Olympiakos celebrated its 11th championship win on Sunday, June 14, and its third win over its main rival Panathinaikos with a score of 93-74 in the third game of the playoff finals. During the match that took place at the...

More than 500 hundred kids gathered at Sepolia, a working class neighborhood in Athens, to watch their old buddies, NBA players Giannis and Thanassis Antetokounmpo, play basketball and give hope to their crisis-hit dreams. After all Giannis and Thanassis who play...

Greek basketball coach Dimitris Itoudis was voted coach of the year in Russia's VTB league, leading CSKA to a great season culminating in the Euroleague Final Four. This is Itoudis' second season as head coach and his first with CSKA...

Panathinaikos announced the dismissal of Dusko Ivanovic, the basketball team’s coach through an official statement. The team’s poor performance against Olympiakos which Panathinaikos lost its advantage, as well as the team’s exclusion from the Euroleague Final 4 lead to...

Panathinaikos lost 80-67 at the Athens Olympic Stadium (OAKA) to Barcelona on Friday during a meaningless game for the first group stage of the Euroleague. However, the game will be remembered for a bomb threat that scared the teams at...

Nikos Galis, one of the greatest Greek basketball players of all time, was announced an honorary member of the Greek team of Göteborg BC in Sweden. “As of today, I am a member of the Greek team of Sweden. I...

Greece defeated Senegal 87-64 on Saturday during the FIBA World Cup Championship taking place in Spain. It was the first game for both teams in the tournaments group phase. The last time Senegal played in FIBA's flagship event was at...

The U18 National Greek basketball team crushed Italy 85-68 in the European Championship in Konya, Turkey and advanced in the semifinals to meet Serbia. Vasilis Charalambopoulos was the main voice of the Greek team (who carried 5 players with double figures) scoring...

Costas Mourouzis, one of the greatest Greek basketball and sports personalities passed away on Wednesday, June 11, at aged 80. During the last years Mourouzis had been battling cancer and was hospitalized at “Elpis” and later on at “Nimits” hospital...