Posts Tagged ‘Olympiacos Piraeus’
Acie Law out for 6-8 weeks
Acie Law (190 cm, Texas A&M’07) will sit out 6-8 weeks of the season for Olympiacos S.F.P Pireus (Greece, A1 and Euroleague) after picking up an injury. The American signed an extended 2-year deal in the summer with the reigning Euroleague champions with an NBA out after a good 2012/2013 season with the club. Acie…
Read MoreEuroleague Top 16: Who can stop Real Madrid?
As the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 is set to get underway, there are several looming questions that remain unanswered. One of which is “Who can stop Real Madrid?” After an impressive, record-breaking regular season, the Spanish club will definitely have a target on their backs in the second stage of the competition. Their fast-paced…
Read MoreMardy Collins now with Olympiacos
Mardy Collins (198 cm, Temple’06) has found a new team. He’s been added by Greek powerhouse Olympiacos S.F.P. Pireus for the 2013-14 season. The veteran guard began the season with Italian Serie A team S.S. Sutor Montegranaro. Before making the jump, Collins was able to log seven games for Sutor MGR and averaged 14.3 ppg…
Read MoreOlympiacos falls to first defeat
Round 11 of the Greek A1 took place on December 29th and the round saw Olympiacos lose their first game of the season. The current two time Euroleague champions have started the season in fine fashion going ten unbeaten on the continent and ten unbeaten in the A1. However, the 20 game run was put…
Read MorePapaloukas wins arbitration vs. Olympiacos
Recently retired Greek basketball legend Theodoros Papaloukas (200 cm) has won an arbitration case he filed against former team Olympiacos S.F.P. Pireus at the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal. As the claimant, Papaloukas sought for that the club be ordered to pay him a total of €1,610,364.87 which was allegedly owed to him based on a contract…
Read MoreEuroleague: Lokomotiv books place in last 16
Euroleague Round 7 kicked off on Thursday with six games around Europe and now that we are deep into the Regular Season the clubs to take part in the Last 16 are booking their places. Last week Real Madrid, Fenerbahce, and reigning champs Olympiacos secured their places in the next round and this week Russian…
Read MoreEuroleague: euro giants qualify for Last 16
Six games held around the continent brought Round 6 of the Euroleague to a close on Friday night in what proved to be another night of exciting action. It was a night of home comforts as five of the games went in favour of host teams, with only one road victory on the night. The…
Read More2013/2014 Euroleague: Round 5, Friday
Round 5 of the 2013/2014 Euroleague season is done and dusted after Friday´s games. It proved to be a good night for home teams as no club recorded a road win as the night threw up several key contests. CSKA Moscow demolished Partizan in Russia to keep in touch in Group A, while Olympiacos came…
Read MoreEuroleague: Round 4, Friday recap
Round 4 of the 2013/2014 Euroleague was completed on Friday night as teams from Group A and Group C took to the court. There were few surprises on the night as in form team Fenerbahce continued to lay down a claim on the Euroleague title with a tricky road win over Partizan NIS Belgrade. Elsewhere…
Read MoreRixos Cup: Olympiacos – Besiktas in finals
With Day 3 of the Rixos Cup 6 completed on Thursday the championship match-up has been determined with Olympiacos Piraeus set to square off against Besiktas on Friday. The preliminary round completed on Thursday with two matches, Olympiacos Piraeus defeated Anadolu Efes 83:78 in the first match of the day and Zalgiris Kaunas downed Fenerbahce…
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