(TalkBasket) – Forward Linas Kleiza has been named the best Lithuanian basketball player of 2009. The choice was made by a fan voting run by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation and the website delfi.lt. The 24-year-old Olympiacos player received nearly 30 per cent of the votes, while Ramūnas Šiškauskas (CSKA Moscow) came second and Žydrūnas Ilgauskas [...]

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 [...]

At the sold-out Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus, Josh Childress led Olympiacos with 19 points and 10 rebounds and his double-double helped the Reds to a 87-76 win over arch rivals Panathinaikos in a Final Four rematch of the Greek League on Sunday. (Discuss the Green-Red game in our forum) Theo Papaloukas added 20 [...]

Olympiacos of the Euroleague, dropped two straight exhibition matches to NBAsquads in the 2009 Euroleague American Tour; losing by an average of 17 points. The Greek club with three NBA players that they signed away in the last two years, Josh Childress, Linas Kleiza, and Von Wafer, was felled by the San Antonio Spurs 107-89, [...]

It’s been a busy day for Greek club Olympiakos Piraeus. After signing Von Wafer earlier in the day, Olympiakos inked Lithuanian power forward Linas Kleiza to a 2-year, $12.2 million dollar contract.  The last few days, sources have said that Kleiza and the club was close to reaching an agreement. (Discuss Linas Kleiza’s signing with [...]

Olympiakos, the Greek club that continues to go after NBA free agents, is now going after Allen Iverson; offering the 6-0 guard a $10 million contract over two years (discuss). The $10 million dollar offer is close to the numbers that Iverson is seeking in free agency, but is Iverson willing to head overseas, play [...]