Olympiacos (20-12) will aim to keep pushing for the top four with a trip to face a Zvezda team (11-21) that showed it is still ready to fight after playing Real very close last week.
Game Notes: Zvezda vs. Olympiacos
The Greek team knows that only a win will suffice but won't take anything for granted after a difficult 88-83 home win against Zvezda in November behind 28 points from Alec Peters. Nemanja Nedovic scored 26 for Zvezda in that game, and he remains the biggest threat for the Serbian team after knocking down 25 and 30 points in the last two games. The all-round talents of Adam Hanga will be a factor, too, after he posted 22 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists against Real. Olympiacos will look for another strong game from Nigel Williams-Goss, who had 17 points and 5 steals to help overcome Partizan last week.
- When Olympiacos beat Zvezda 88-83 in Round 9, Alec Peters scored a career-high 28 points and his tied career-best with a PIR of 31, while Moustapha Fall set a new career-high with 14 rebounds and tied a career-best with 7 offensive rebounds.
- Zvezda head coach Ioannis Sfairopolous coached Olympiacos for three seasons from 2015 to 2018. During his tenure there, Nikola Milutinov and Kostas Papanikolaou played for Olympiacos They all reached the 2017 championship game together.
- Zvezda point guard Milos Teodosic made his EuroLeague debut with Olympiacos in 2007 and spent four seasons there. He was chosen as the EuroLeague MVP in 2010 and helped lead the team to the 2010 championship game. In Piraeus, he was a teammate of Kostas Papanikolaou.
- Olympiacos set a club record with 9 blocks against Crvena Zvezda on November 7, 2014.
- Zvezda center Joel Bolomboy played for Olympiacos last season and helped the team reach the EuroLeague championship game.
- Olympiacos center Filip Petrusev played for Crvena Zvezda last season.
- Zvezda's Dejan Davidovac and Olympiacos centers Petrusev and Nikola Milutinov won a silver medal together with the Serbian national team at the 2023 Basketball World Cup.
- Milutinov and Davidovac spent last season playing together at CSKA Moscow.
- Milutinov was a teammate of Zvezda's Ognjen Kuzmic and Nemanja Nedovic on the Serbian national team at EuroBasket 2015.
- Zvezda's Adam Hanga and Olympiacos guard Nigel Williams-Goss were teammates at Real Madrid for the last two seasons. They won the 2023 EuroLeague championship together.
- Olympiacos forward Luke Sikma earned co-MVP of the Round honors with 19 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and a career-high 3 blocks, accumulating a PIR of 32 playing for ALBA Berlin in a 93-80 home win over Crvena Zvezda in November 2019.
- Zvezda guard Nemanja Nedovic collected a career-high 3 steals playing for Valencia Basket against Olympiacos in November 2014.
- When Zvezda beat Olympiacos 88-81 in Belgrade in December 2019, Lorenzo Brown, now with Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, scored 34 points to set Zvezda's single-game scoring record. Brown also set the Zvezda single-game record for two-pointers made with 11.