The Reds bring their own pedigree to the Final Four, both the club and its players. Here are some of the Final Four facts about Olympiacos.
Final Four team facts: Olympiacos Piraeus
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- Olympiacos is at its 13th Final Four. Its last nine appearances have come over the last 15 years - 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Olympiacos has the chance to win its fourth EuroLeague championship.
- Olympiacos is one of four teams that have won back-to-back EuroLeague crowns in the Final Four era. Olympiacos won back-to-back EuroLeague titles in 2012 and 2013. KK Split (1989, 1990, 1991), Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004, 2005) and Anadolu Efes Istanbul (2022, 2023) are also on this exclusive list.
- Olympiacos is 9-3 in EuroLeague Semifinals. Only Maccabi (10-2) has a better semifinals record, with one of those wins coming in the 2001 SuproLeague Final Four.
- Kostas Papanikolaou won back-to-back EuroLeague championships with Olympiacos in 2012 and 2013.
- Papanikolaou and Nikola Milutinov played in the 2017 EuroLeague Championship Game. Three more players from that game are at the 2024 Final Four: Kostas Sloukas, Melih Mahmutoglu and Ioannis Papapetrou.
- Papanikolaou is one of three Rising Star Trophy winners at this Final Four. Papanikolaou was chosen as the 2012-13 EuroLeague Rising Star He is joined by Yam Madar of Fenerbahce (2022-23) and Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid (2006-07).
- Nigel Williams-Goss has a rare chance to win consecutive EuroLeague championships with different teams. He won the EuroLeague with Real Madrid last season. Dejan Bodiroga (Panathinaikos 2002, Barca 2003), Sarunas Jasikevicius (Barca 2003, Maccabi Tel Aviv 2004) and Ramunas Siskauskas (Panathinaikos Athens 2007, CSKA Moscow 2008) are the only players to date to do so.
- Thomas Walkup is one of two EuroLeague Best Defender Trophy winners present at the 2024 Final Four. Walter Tavares of Real Madrid is the other.
- Head coach Georgios Bartzokas is at his fifth Final Four. He won the EuroLeague with Olympiacos Piraeus in 2013, took Lokomotiv Kuban to the 2016 Final Four, and has returned with the Reds in each of the last three seasons.
- Bartzokas is one of two Greek coaches to win the EuroLeague. He led Olympiacos to the 2013 crown. Dimitris Itoudis (CSKA 2015, 2018) is the other.
- Bartzokas is a three-time Aleksander Gomelskiy EuroLeague Coach of the Year award winner. He was chosen as the Coach of the Year in 2013, 2022, 2023, and is the only coach to win the award in consecutive seasons. Zeljko Obradovic also won the award three times: in 2007, 2011 and 2017.
- Filip Petrusev has a chance to win his second EuroLeague title. He previously lifted the trophy with Anadolu Efes Istanbul in 2022.
- Papanikolaou ranks second all-time in games started. He has started in 308 EuroLeague games. Nick Calathes of Fenerbahce is the all-time leader with 309 EuroLeague starts.
- Papanikolaou ranks ninth all-time in steals at 303. Calathes leads the charts with 446 steals.
- Alec Peters won the EuroLeague with CSKA Moscow in 2019.
- Peters ranks seventh all-time in three-point shooting accuracy. He has made 229 of 510 three-pointers (44.9%). Only one player has a better percentage with at least 500 three-point shots taken: Petteri Koponen (247 of 535, 46.2% 3FG).
- Peters ranks third in three-point shooting this season. Peters made 51.2% of his three-point shots. Tarik Biberovic of Fenerbahce is first (54.4% 3FG).
- Walkup ranks second in steals this season. He has averaged 1.6 steals in 38 games, and only LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne playmaker Paris Lee (1.7 spg.) is ahead of him.
- Moustapha Fall ranks second all-time in two-point shooting percentage. He has made 458 of 630 two-point shots (72.7%). Donta Hall of AS Monaco is first overall at 75.1%.
- Fall leads the 2023-24 EuroLeague in two-point shooting percentage. He has made 110 of 139 attempts inside the arc (79.1% 2FG).
- Milutinov leads the competition in PIR per 40 minutes. Milutinov has a PIR average of 32.1 per 40 minutes.
- Olympiacos leads the 2023-24 EuroLeague in steals. The Reds have taken 7.1 swipes per game on average.
- Olympiacos has allowed the fewest points per game this season with 74.4. The Reds lead this statistical category for the second consecutive season: they allowed a league-low 75.2 points per night in the 2022-23 campaign.