Euroleague: Against all Odds, Olympiakos won the European Trophy!

AGAINST THE ODDS: Olympiakos players celebrate on the podium after their dramatic 62-61 win in the Euroleague final in Konstantinoupolis Olympiakos Piraeus won the Euroleague on Sunday in dramatic style on Sunday after being written off even by many of their own fans as title candidates before this season's premier club basketball competition. Trailing strong favourites CSKA... Read More »

Euroleague: Kostas Sloukas is answering everything....

After missing the start of the season due to injury, Kostas Sloukas made an instant impact upon cracking the Olympiacos Piraeus lineup. In fact, the Reds have won nine of the 13 Turkish Airlines Euroleague games he’s played this season. Sloukas has been a dead-eye shooter with a flair for the dramatic and has stepped up in big games in both the Top 16 and the playoffs.... Read More »

Euroleague: Perperoglou - 'No room for favorites'

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing well… I am sure that you are looking forward for the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four tip off… We sure are! We are marching towards the end of our preparations for the semifinal against CSKA Moscow. We are all ready; Mike Batiste is back after recovering from his injury and we have been spending a lot of time at OAKA. We... Read More »

Etha Engomis, Keravnos Strovolou and AEK Larnakas doing their moves!

The three out of the 8 head coaches have already renewed their contracts for another one season which shows that the management of the teams of Keravnos Strovolou, AEK Larnakas and Etha Engomis respectively trust the Cypriot Coaches no matter what the result was. In a few words we can say that all three of them were successful as Konstnatinidis won the championship for a second... Read More »

The early transfers of the coming season

Like all the other European clubs all over the globe the Cyprus clubs begun already to plan their future for the coming season. So with AEK Larnakas being at the top of the list in the specific category, AEK's Management already agreed financial terms with their head Coach Nikolas Papadopoulos who consider being successful with the management and coaching of the Larnaka team who... Read More »

Finals: Etha Engomis is the new (old) champion of the Cyprus league for the 2011-2012

Intercollege Etha Engomis beat Keravnos Strovolou 67-63 and succeeded a perfect back to back after winning 3-1 in the finals the team of Kearvnos who was in theory the favorite team to win the champion this season. With an amazing fourth quarter (29-16) where the team of Coach Yiannaras collapsed totally and with fatal players being Marcus Moore and Kojiadinovic who ended the... Read More »

B' Division: Anagennisi Germasogias won the Cyprus Cup and the double of the division

Anagennisi Yermasogias with a great roster from players who used to be stars in the First division and with the Lithuanian Edi Vetrenka in theis roster ended up their best season ever after beating at the special Second division cup, the team of Olympos Aglantzias, a team which also succeeded to perform great basketball with (mostly) players coming from the youth team of... Read More »

Finals: Keravnos stroke back for the 1-2 in the series against ETHA.

Finals: Game 3 - Keravnos beat Etha 87-72 and remains in the game for at least another four days! After a great game by the American duet Moore and Frazier, Keravnos Strovolou refreshed its hopes for the something more than the Cyprus Cup. The team of Coach Yiannaras was (after many weeks) once more the good solid team we knew from the regular season. With control basketball,... Read More »

Eurolegue: The stupid statement of Goodes

Guy Goodes an ex player who’s currently act as the assistant Coach of David Blatt started his own game (with the wishes of above) in order to gain the reports and the Media attention to his team. In a few words, the Israeli Coach said more or less that Maccabi will need to play much better than Panathinaikos in their in between game no.5 since the men in gray (referees)... Read More »

Euroleague's Final Four: Against all odds, Olympiakos will be there!!

Olympiacos advanced to its third Euroleague Final Four in the past four seasons by beating the top favorite team in this series, Montepaschi Siena 76-69 to secure a 3-1 series victory. Olympiako took a kind of revenge for last season’s results as it was the Italians who knocked out the team of Dusan Ivkovic in the Top 8 of Euroleague.   Vassilis Spanoulis scored 19... Read More »

Finals: ETHA is ready for the back 2 back after the 2nd consecutive victory over Keravnos Strovolou

Intercollege Etha Engomis playing much better than Keravnos in the second decisive game of this series, and with an amazing 4th period where it out scored its opponent with 24-9, beat the team of Keravnos (71-67) and is ready for the back to back for the title.   More passionate (once more) the players of Coach Konstantinidis with an amazing Darryl Watkins (211-C-84,... Read More »

Greek A2 league: Vassilis Kounas Vs Andreas Sizopoulos = 1

In  a great derby which took place in Lavrio, the home team of the Cyprus itnernational Vassilis Kounas beat in the over time the visiting team of the Cyprus Interantional Andreas Sizopoulos, OFI with 91-89 in a game which was a derby from the very first minute utnil the very last of the extra time. The home team of Coach Christos Serelis (rumors wanted him... Read More »

Finals: ETHA did it again!

After a great game which took place at Strovolos Indoor Arena “Paris Papaellinas” the Cindrella of the Cyprus Basketball, Etha did it againt and roll to an important road win with 77-81against the "allmighty" team of Keravnos. It is worth to note tha thisis the first victory over Keravnos the last three years! The team of... Read More »

NBA: Kevin Durant could be the new NBA's King

Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder sent a loud and clear message to Miami as Durant scored 28 points and led his Thunder teammates to a 103-87 win over the Heat. Durant just missed a triple-double with nine rebounds and eight assists to go with those game-high 28 points. As big a night as Durant had, OKC's big men, Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka, were even more... Read More »

Panathinaikos flew to Tel Aviv with only one mission, at least 1 win in 2 games

The series is down to 1-1 and Panathinaikos needs three victories to go to the Final Four. Of course the Green’s main target is to play well in Tel Aviv. Every game is different. It’s something that everybody already saw in the first two games in OAKA, Athens. They were two completely different games. The next two games are in Nokia Arena, nothing is going to be the... Read More »