Fading (13-19) Bayern must win to have any chance of prolonging its play-in hopes against a Panathinaikos (21-11) team that also needs the victory to stay in charge of its top-four ambitions.
Game Notes: Bayern vs. Panathinaikos



Mathias Lessort will hope to propel Panathinaikos against the team he represented in the 2019-20 season, having already done damage with 16 points to procure a 78-71 win over Bayern in Round 2. Backcourt leadership will come from the endlessly reliable Kostas Sloukas, who averages 18.3 points over the last three games. Bayern has lost three in a row and needs to improve an offense which has reached 80 points only once in the last eight games. The German club will hope that Nick Weiler-Babb stays hot after scoring a season-high 17 points in last week's loss to Barcelona.
- The home team has won 12 of the 13 games these teams have played against one another.
- Panathinaikos swept Bayern in the 2019-20 season, including a 75-87 win in Munich in November 2019, which is the only road win between these two teams. Panathinaikos forwards Ioannis Papapetrou and Dinos Mitoglou played in that victory, while current Panathinaikos center Mathias Lessort and Bayern forward Vladimir Lucic were on the losing end in that game.
- Lessort spent the 2019-20 season with Bayern.
- Bayern's Sylvain Francisco and Lessort were teammates on the French national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis was a teammate of Bayern's Niels Giffey at ALBA Berlin during the 2017-18 season.
- Panathinaikos big man Kostas Antetokounmpo and Bayern's Devin Booker and Carsen Edwards were teammates at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul last season.
- Bayern's Leandro Bolmaro and Panathinaikos guard Luca Vildoza have been teammates on the Argentine national team.
- In Round 2, Bayern's Leandro Bolmaro posted his career high in PIR (24) and two-pointers made (9) in a 78-71 loss against Panathinaikos in Athens.
- Bayern's Andreas Obst had a career-high 6 assists in an 86-76 road loss against Panathinaikos in March of last season.
- Panathinaikos point guard Kostas Sloukas set his career-high with 3 blocked shots playing for Olympiacos Piraeus against Bayern in October 2013.
- Bayern guard Carsen Edwards pulled down a career-best 6 rebounds playing for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul against Panathinaikos in November 2022.