It’s been four, long years since United States coach Mike Krzyzewski and his star-studded squad lost to Greece in the Semi-Finals of the FIBA World Championship in Japan, a result that sparked celebrations in the streets of Athens. (Join in on the action with our World Championships forum) Follow USA-Lithuania, Serbia-Turkey in our Championship forum [...]

Spain has been knocked down again, this time being upset by Lithuania 76-73, giving up a 18-point second half lead over the basketball-crazy Baltic country. (Discuss the Spain vs. Lithuania game in our World Championships forum) After Spain scored the first four points of the fourth quarter, Lithuania used a 23-5 run the rest of [...]

(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, [...]