Two playoff-chasing teams looking to bounce back go head to head as Baskonia (10-10) hosts Olympiacos (11-9).
Game Facts: Baskonia vs. Olympiacos



Baskonia has lost three of its last four, while the Reds saw a four-game winning streak snapped at Barcelona on Wednesday. Two power forwards with long-range scoring prowess will be fundamental, with Chima Moneke (14.3 points per game) going up against Alec Peters (15.7 ppg). Moneke stole the show when the teams met in Round 7, netting 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the field to help his team to a thrilling 74-75 road win. Codi Miller-McIntyre sealed that victory with a stunning buzzer-beating game-winner and Olympiacos needs to control his orchestration after he dished 11 assists against Monaco earlier this week.
- Baskonia beat Olympiacos 74-75 in Round 7 on a game-winning shot by Codi Miller-McIntyre with 0.7 seconds to go. Tadas Sedekeraskis had a career-high PIR of 27 in that victory or Baskonia.
- Baskonia and Olympiacos have met 47 times this century. They have met in the EuroLeague playoffs twice - in 2001 and 2007. Baskonia swept the best-of-three series both times.
- Olympiacos set a club record with 36 two-point shots made against Baskonia in a 102-85 home win in March 2010.
- The Olympiacos single-game record for steals is 7, which Arvydas Macijauskas set against Baskonia on October 25, 2007.
- Olympiacos forward Alec Peters spent two seasons with Baskonia, from 2020 to 2022.
- Baskonia sharpshooter Vanja Marinkovic and Olympiacos center Milutinov played together at Partizan Belgrade for two seasons, from 2013 to 2015.
- Marinkovic and Milutinov have also been teammates on the Serbian national team, together they won the silver medal at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Milutinov scored a career-high 23 points and also had 11 rebounds for a PIR of 33 in an 80-85 road win over Baskonia in October 2018. He earned weekly co-MVP honors for that performance.
- Baskonia's Tadas Sedekerskis was a teammate of Olympiacos's Ignas Brazdeikis on the Lithuanian national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Olympiacos's Kostas Papanikolaou, Thomas Walkup, Giannoulis Larentzakis and Michalis Lountzis were teammates of Baskonia's Nikos Rogkavopoulos on the Greek national team this past summer at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Papanikolaou scored a career-high 22 points and netted a career-best 6 triples, including one that sent the game into overtime, to rally the Reds to a 91-87 overtime home win over Baskonia in January 2018.
























































































