Tag: Olympiakos

Who has the deepest roster in the Euroleague? CSKA, Barca, or... ?

Who has the deepest roster in the Euroleague? CSKA, Barca, or… ?

There’s a great discussion in our Euroleague basketball forum around the league’s strongest roster. After a few powerhouses, including Fenerbahce, Barcelona and Efes, made some moves to tweak their team rosters, it’s intriguing to see which teams are the most […]

Top 10 Non-US Players In The 2014 FIBA World Cup

Top 10 Non-US Players In The 2014 FIBA World Cup

In order to avoid a full Top10 list of US players for the upcoming 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup here is a Top 10 Non-US players list. The Spanish squad has also been excluded from the list because this generation is […]

Olympiacos and Panathinaikos Get To Live Another Day In The Euroleague

Olympiacos and Panathinaikos Get To Live Another Day In The Euroleague

Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, the two Greek representatives in this years’ Euroleague Playoffs, have managed to save the series against CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid respectively. They both battled for huge home wins against two of the biggest favorites to win the […]

Barcelona Qualifies For Euroleague Final Four Tornament

Barcelona Qualifies For Euroleague Final Four Tornament

Barcelona wrapped up the series against Galatasaray away from home and won the playoffs series with the score 3-0. They are the first team to advance to the 2014 Euroleague Final Four Tournament. Their rivals Real Madrid will have the […]

Euroleague Friday Roundup: Playoffs Picture Completed

Euroleague Friday Roundup: Playoffs Picture Completed

There were no big surprises in the last day of the Top 16 phase in the Euroleague. Galatasaray got the highly needed win on home court against one of the teams that were already disqualified Partizan. Real Madrid lost the […]

Euroleague Top 16 Round 12, Thursday Preview

Euroleague Top 16 Round 12, Thursday Preview

Only three games left till the end of the Top 16 phase in this year’s Euroleague. Some of the teams have already said goodbye to the competition and few of them have secured their spot in the playoffs. There are […]

Spanoulis Lifts Olympiacos Over Laboral For The Huge Home Win

Spanoulis Lifts Olympiacos Over Laboral For The Huge Home Win

Vassilis Spanoulis came back to action after missing some time with an injury. That proved to bey a key success factor as Olympiacos demolished Laboral in Athens in a convincing manner with a 40 points differential. The final score was […]

F.C. Barcelona wins Euroleague Championship over Olympiakos

F.C. Barcelona wins Euroleague Championship over Olympiakos

Regal FC Barcelona downed Olympiacos 86-68 in the final before a packed house at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in the French capital to win its second Euroleague crown. (Discuss Euroleague basketball in our Euroleague forum) Juan Carlos Navarro, the […]

Olympiacos finally ends Panathinaikos Greek Cup reign

Three times was a charm for Olympiacos as they finally defeated rivals Panathinaikos to win the Greek Cup over the weekend. (Discuss the 2010 Greek Cup of basketball in our forum) Having lost in the Final to Panathnaikos the previous […]

EL16: Olympiakos downs Caja Laboral behind Childress

(FIBA) – Caja Laboral wasted a season-high 23 points from Brazilian Marcelo Huertas on Thursday night as they fell at home to Olympiacos in the Euroleague. (Discuss the Euroleague Top-16, round 2) The Reds scraped a valuable 89-85 Top 16 […]

Von Wafer to the Memphis Grizzlies?

Von Wafer to the Memphis Grizzlies?

Are the Memphis Grizzlies attempting to sign guard Von Wafer? (Discuss Von Wafer’s returning to the NBA) Wafer, who played for the Houston Rockets two seasons ago, is trying to get out of his overseas contract with Greek club Olympiacos […]

Olympiacos downs Panathinaikos 87-76

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 […]

Olympiakos sends Von Wafer home from practice

Olympiakos sends Von Wafer home from practice

From Sport24.gr (via TalkBasket): Olympiacos’ coach Panagiotis Giannakis has sent former Houston Rocket guard Von Wafer home after clashing with one of the coaching staff. (Talk Greek basketball in our forum) The problem with Wafer comes days before Olympiacos plays some […]

Olympiakos falls to Spurs, Cavs in 2009 NBA Tour

Olympiakos falls to Spurs, Cavs in 2009 NBA Tour

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, […]

Alex Acker departs NBA, returns to Europe

Alex Acker has signed on to play with Italian club Armani Jeans Milano for the upcoming 2009-10 season, bringing the swingman back to the Euroleague after an unsuccessful second attempt at the NBA. The 6-2 Acker played sparingly in 25 […]

Linas Kleiza leaves NBA, signs with Olympiakos

Linas Kleiza leaves NBA, signs with Olympiakos

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 […]

Von Wafer to Europe, Olympiakos

Von Wafer to Europe, Olympiakos

After signing Josh Childress away from the Atlanta Hawks during last year’s offseason, Greek outfit Olympiakos is at it again, signing Houston Rocket’s sub Von Wafer to a contract worth $5 million over 2 years. (Discuss Von Wafer’s move to […]