They played against the eventual winners CSKA Moscow and despite grabbing a thrilling away win in the first match of the series in CSKA Universal Sports Hall in Moscow (7674 with Qyntel Woods scoring 20 points and Lynn Greer sinking a spectacular game-winning buzzer beater which ended CSKA's 27-game winning streak at home), they lost the second game in Piraeus and were eventually eliminated by 21 wins after the third game in Moscow. Selver will forever be remembered as a cherished member of our basketball family. Pierria Henry paced Baskonia with 19 points, Rokas Giedraitis added 17, Achille Polonara 16 and Zoran Dragic had 10 for the guests. Olympiacos eliminated CSKA Moscow with 21 wins in the quarter-final playoffs and reached their second FIBA European League Final Four in Pabelln Prncipe Felipe, Zaragoza, facing again their eternal enemies Panathinaikos in the semi-final. In the final, they played against FC Barcelona Banca Catalana, and after an impressive display, they won by a score of 7358, and became European Champions for the first time in their history. Nemanja Nedovic scored 17 points and Ben Bentil 13 for Panathinaikos in defeat. Zenit St Petersburg will continue fighting to reach the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Playoffs for the first time in club history after handily downing Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv 86-69 at home on Friday. [7] Later on, Olympiacos won the Intercontinental Cup, celebrating a third international title in 17 months. Valencia finished the regular season with a 19-15 record and now must get some help from others to qualify for the playoffs. Eight teams will play best-of-five-series. And they did, agreeing with the Lithuanian NBA player of the Denver Nuggets, Linas Kleiza. In July 2010, Olympiacos offered a three-year contract worth 13,200,000 euros gross income to the famous Greek guard Vassilis Spanoulis, and came to an agreement with the player. On 18 October 1997, Olympiacos became the first Greek team to play against an NBA team. In the EuroLeague, the Reds had an impressive run in the regular season and the Top 16, finishing as group winners in both phases. The game was tied at 6868, with only 5.2 seconds remaining on game the clock. My heart is perfect, NBA transition take foul to be penalized from next season, No. Olympiacos lost 78104, with the legendary Michael Jordan scoring 27 points in the game. Olympiacos went on to complete the coveted Triple Crown in convincing fashion: they won the Greek League title (with 31 wins against the season's surprise team AEK) and the Greek Cup (beating Dexim Apollon Patras 8078 in the final, in Olympic Indoor Hall), to mark the most successful season in the club's long history. That led to their relegation, and a loss of all of their season wins, as a punishment by the Greek Basket League. Olympiacos had possession of the ball, and just a small amount of time for a last play. Karaiskakis Stadium Disaster (Gate 7 Tragedy), Derby of the eternal enemies (basketball), 1997 McDonald's Championship Runners-up against the Chicago Bulls, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olympiacos_B.C.&oldid=1099385584, Articles with Greek-language sources (el), Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt), Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. ALBA Berlin finished its Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season on a high note as it defeated Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade 81-58 at home. Austin Hollins led five double-digit Zenit scorers with 15 points. But in the second half of the season, things went wrong for the team. SEF hosted the indoor volleyball tournament of the 2004 Summer Olympics, and it was also the host venue of the EuroBasket 1987, and the 1998 FIBA World Championship. Olympiacos bounced back from the loss, and managed to put on a top-class display in Game 2, beating FC Barcelona 6376, at Palau Blaugrana. In the semi-final the team managed to defeat Partizan 8380 in overtime in a thrilling match, with Kleiza scoring 19 points. .mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}. As European Champions, they played against the back-to-back NBA champions, the Chicago Bulls, in the final of the 1997 McDonald's Championship in Paris. [64] After losing the first EuroLeague game of the season against ASVEL, Olympiacos and David Blatt parted ways. Sasha Vezenkov led the winners with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Winning the 2015 Greek Championship in convincing fashion. He was followed by Wade Baldwin IV, who tallied 18 points and 6 assists, and Vladimir Lucic, who contributed 14 points for the winners. Finally Olympiacos won their first Greek Championship since 1978, defeating in the semi-finals with 31 wins a totally disappointed PAOK by the failure at the Final Four in Athens, and then Panathinaikos in the finals with 31 wins as well, even though both of Olympiacos' opponents had the home-court advantage. A 14-0 run early in the second half helped the Lithuanian champs pull away for good and the lead reached 24 in the fourth quarter as Zalgiris cruised to victory. Olympiacos B.C. Olympiacos faced AEK for the third place and won. Zenit plays its last game, a rescheduled Round 6 home date with Panathinaikos (11-21) on Monday. Georgios Printezis added 14 points and Octavius Ellis 11 while Vasilis Charalampopoulos, Kosta Koufos and Shaquielle McKissic each scored 10 for Olympiacos. In Greece, Olympiacos had a great regular season, ending up with an impressive record of 25 wins and only 1 defeat. With the home-advantage in their hands, the Reds beat FC Barcelona twice at Peace and Friendship Stadium, winning the playoff series 31. Zach LeDay added 15 points, while Vladimir Micov and Jeremy Evens had 10 apiece. The following table shows in detail the shirt sponsors and kit manufacturers of Olympiacos by year: Olympiacos' long-time home court is the Peace and Friendship Stadium (Greek: or SEF), which is an indoor arena that is located in Faliro, Piraeus, on the Athens coast land, exactly opposite of the Olympiacos FC football department's home stadium, Karaiskakis Stadium. Having defeated Atenas in the semi-final by 8986, Olympiacos played against the NBA champions Chicago Bulls in the final. Their first victim was Partizan. It all came down to the final minutes, in which a three-point play by Tobey and free throws by Williams sealed the outcome. By that year the club had fully rebounded, climbing all the way back to rule Greece. Day Break : Day 3 Surrey need 76 runs to win. Players added to the club like Renaldas Seibutis, Quincy Lewis, Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Georgios Printezis and, above all, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, were viewed by some to be a possible solid core of players for the team for many years to come. Zenit St Petersburg won at home against Maccabi to move to 19-14, tied on victories with Valencia (19-15). They also reached the final of the Greek Cup after 4 years, but they didn't manage to take the title. Derrick Williams led the winners with 16 points, Klemen Prepelic added 14, Mike Tobey 13, Nikola Kalinic 12 and Bojan Dubljevic 11 for Valencia. Thus joining Toni Kuko, as the only two players in history to achieve that distinction on three occasions. In the Greek League, Olympiacos finished the regular season in second place, behind Panathinaikos. Panathinaikos dropped to 11-21 and still has two games remaining. Before 1991, Olympiacos CFP president was responsible for the management of the basketball team. Nico Laprovittola led Real with a double-double of 18 points and 10 assists, while Fabien Causeur poured in 20 points and Gabriel Deck scored 19. Guerschon Yabusele led ASVEL with 23 points while Norris Cole added 15. [28], Olympiacos announced that their decisions were fully supported by the parent club's Olympiacos CFP chairman, Michalis Kountouris. The game was played under zone-friendly European rules (the games between NBA and FIBA teams were played under a mixture of NBA and FIBA rules at that time), but, out of respect for the Bulls, Olympiacos never used a zone defense. In October 2009, Olympiacos visited the United States on their 2009 NBA tour, and played against the San Antonio Spurs, at the AT&T Center, and against the Cleveland Cavaliers, at Quicken Loans Arena. Benachrichtige mich ber nachfolgende Kommentare via E-Mail. The final round of that year was one of the toughest ever in the competition. They lost the second match in Thessaloniki, and the last game was held again in Athens. [43], In the final standings of the regular season, Panathinaikos with 6 points and Olympiacos with 8 points, and one more point not awarded to each one, were ranked in the 3rd and 6th place respectively despite having the two best records, which meant that they were to play against each other in the first playoffs round. In the Greek League, Olympiacos took the first place in the regular season, but despite earning home-court advantage for the finals, they lost the first game at home, and suffered a 31 defeat in a best-of-five series, as they let a chance at the championship slip away. In the Greek Championship regular season, the team set a record with 25 wins against only 1 defeat, but in the finals of the Greek League playoffs, they lost the series 31, despite having the home court advantage. Later Olympiacos penalty was reduced to a 2-point deduction for the Cup game, which meant that the total deduction from the league table was 8 points. Euroleague Basketball has unveiled the newly refurbished Selver Dzigal Game Center at the companys offices in Barcelona.

Zalgiris Kaunas never trailed in taking care of Panathinaikos OPAP Athens 93-78 on Thursday night at Zalgirio Arena. This remains one of the club's most popular chants to this day. With the help of these two and under the guidance of coach Panagiotis Giannakis the club managed to take the Greek Cup defeating their arch-rivals Panathinaikos 6864 in the final. ASVEL finished its EuroLeague campaign with a 13-21 record. [17] The fourth game of the series was disrupted several times and the arena was cleared of all fans to complete the remaining few minutes. Going to Istanbul as an outsider, Olympiacos upset the odds, and beat the two favourites, FC Barcelona Regal in the semi-final, with a score 6864, and CSKA Moscow in the final, with a 6261 score, coming back after trailing by 19 points in the most dramatic final in the history of EuroLeague. [49] In the face of this possibility EuroLeague Basketball president, Jordi Bertomeu, accused the Hellenic Basketball Federation of not intervening to resolve the dispute between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, describing the situation of the Greek basketball and the forthcoming relegation of Olympiacos as unthinkable. Olympiacos would win another Greek title and it did so in unprecedented fashion, running off 22 victories in 22 games. The most successful season of the Reds since 1997, was completed by seizing the Greek Championship as well. However, the season ended in an extremely memorable way, because in the last game of the best-of-five series of the Greek League Finals, Olympiacos smashed arch-rivals and European champions Panathinaikos with a thrashing 7338 victory, an all-time record victory margin (35 points) for the Greek League Finals and the second largest winning margin in an OlympiacosPanathinaikos game after Olympiacos' 11068 (42-point margin) record away win against Panathinaikos in the Greek Cup in 1977. FC Barcelona entered the series with the home-court advantage, and won the first game at home. The 199899 season didn't begin well, because in the season's opening match of the Greek Cup, Olympiacos was eliminated by PAOK. The playoffs are due to begin on Tuesday, April 20. [9] Melini led Olympiacos with 24 points, while Kastrinakis scored 22. [54], The club's former coach, Ioannis Sfairopoulos, stated that Olympiacos chose the extreme way to change a situation that existed for years, something they tried to do in various ways in the past but nothing worked,[55] and that they have to change the status in Greek basketball. The aim of the Greek Cup extinguished from the beginning after the defeat by Panathinaikos with the strangeness 4042 in the knock-out match that held in the Sporting Indoor Hall because Olympiacos was punished for the events that take place in the fifth final of the last season play-offs against PAOK. In the Tel Aviv Final Four which was looked like an Athenaic-Catalan tournament demonstration, they faced their arch-rivals Panathinaikos in the semi-final (by the way the other semi-final was FC Barcelona Banca Catalana vs 7up Joventut), beating them 7772 and becoming the first Greek team to ever play in the Euroleague Final. Olympiacos regained a 42-41 edge at the break, extending that to 63-55 after three quarters and then again to 79-66 to seal the outcome way before the final buzzer. After Olympiacos completed an easy 9275 win over Panathinaikos with Alphonso Ford scoring 21 points in the opening home match, another home win against AEK, and an away win against Olimpija, they played an away game against Panathinaikos and lost 7888. Olympiacos won another Greek Cup title in 1980 which was the last of the successful GiatzoglouKastrinakis era. In the Greek Cup's Final Four, they faced Panathinaikos for the 3rd place and they won easily. The 200506 season saw the return of the Red giants, which overcame the previous down years with a nice combination of young talent and experienced veterans which paid off for the club. On the contrary, they finished first in the regular season of the Greek League and entered the playoffs having home court advantage. The "Reds", despite being strong favourites to win the European crown, lost 5759 to 7up Joventut in the final after a dramatic ending. The first major achievement of Olympiacos in European competitions was their presence in the 197879 FIBA European Champions Cup semi-finals group stage, but it was in the 1990s that Olympiacos made their biggest mark. At the opening game of the series in Panathinaikos' home, the Reds lost 7279, but they won the second game in Peace and Friendship Stadium 7672. It wasn't until 1976 that coach Faidon Matthaiou managed to create a strong team based on the stars Steve Giatzoglou, Giorgos Kastrinakis, Giorgos Barlas and on strong team players like Paul Melini and Pavlos Diakoulas. At MyFinal11 we earn our revenue from advertising. After rolling past CSKA Moscow with a smashing 6952 win in the semi-final,[19] they managed to beat Real Madrid 10088 in the final at London's The O2 Arena, roaring back from a 17-point deficit in the first quarter, and scoring 90 points in the remaining three-quarters.