A huge Greek football scandal has also drawn in domestic basketball superstar Ioannis Bourousis leading to a shocking doping revelation and repercussions. Leaked by a recorded telephone conversation, the transcripts tell a story of an April 2011 meeting between the owner of the Kavala Football Club and Olympiako’s and Greek National Team star Bouroussis. Discuss [...]

The Greek A1 Basketball League will come to a stop as of January 1st, 2010. A strike will occur because an agreement could not be reached, once again, between the Union of Greek Professional Basketball Clubs (ESAKE) and the Union of Professional Greek Basketball Players (PSAK). (Discuss Greek Basketball in our forum) And without an [...]

Rumors have Von Wafer and Greek club Olympicos both would like to part ways and the negotiations to break the player’s contract have already begun. (Talk Greek Basketball in our forum) According to Talkbasket, the supposed reasoning why the two parties are parting ways is over Von Wafer’s contributions to the team, or the lack [...]

After leading Olympiacos with 19 fourth-quarter points in a comeback win against Entente Orleanaise on Thursday night, Linas Kleiza has come down with the Swine Flu. (Talk Euroleague Basketball in our forum) The virus knocked Kleiza out of commission for an undetermined amount of time. Kleiza is Olympiacos’ leading scorer with 18.3 points over the [...]

Theodoros Papaloukas (right), the 6-7 point guard extraordinaire tied a Euroleague record with 14 assists in Olympiacos’ tight 88-84 win over Entente Orleanaise last night. (Discuss Papaloukas’ performance and Euroleague Week 6 in our forum) The former Euroleague MVP teamed with Linas Kleiza, who had 19 fourth quarter points, in Olympiacos’ late comeback. Papaloukas’ 14 [...]

During the Euroleague American Tour, Greek club Olympiacos took on the Cleveland Cavs, and the official first meeting between Shaquille O’Neal and Greek Shaq/Baby Shaq Sofoklis Schortsianitis. Shaq scored 12 points on 6-10 shooting, grabbed 5 rebounds, a blocked one shot in 21 minutes.  Sofo also played 21 minutes, but recorded just 4 points on [...]