Panathinaikos (22-11) will aim to seal home-court advantage in the playoffs with a visit from ALBA (5-28), which knows it will finish in last place after losing 10 games in a row.
Game Notes: Panathinaikos vs. ALBA
The Greens are huge favorites to get the job done, showing unstoppable recent home strength with eight straight wins in Athens. The Greek team came out on top 85-99 as Dinos Mitoglou poured in 24 points with 12 rebounds in Berlin in October. And ALBA faces a massive task in slowing down a multifaceted Panathinaikos offense, typified by Juancho Hernangomez scoring 14 points with just one miss to help down Bayern last week. In the backcourt, Kendrick Nunn is playing with great confidence after averaging 17.4 points in the last five games, with multiple triples in each of those.
- In Round 7, Panathinaikos beat ALBA 85-99 in Berlin with Dinos Mitoglou scoring 24 points and Jerian Grant dishing a career-high 9 assists.
- ALBA set club records in scoring (106 points) and two-pointers made (33) against Panathinaikos in a 105-106 double-overtime win in November 2019.
- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis played for ALBA during the 2017-18 season. He was a teammate of current ALBA players Jonas Mattisseck and Tim Schneider.
- ALBA sharpshooter Matt Thomas played for Panathinaikos last season.
- Panathinaikos guard Kostas Sloukas earned weekly MVP honors in Round 12 of the 2019-20 season when he set a career-high with a PIR of 39, collecting 23 points and 10 assists and also making a career-best 13 free throws playing for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul against ALBA.
- Panathinaikos center Mathias Lessort posted his career high with 3 blocks playing for Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade against ALBA in Round 1 loss in the 2022-23 season.
- Panathinaikos forward Ioannis Papapetrou set career-highs with 39 points and a PIR of 41 playing for Panathinaikos in a double-overtime home loss against ALBA in November 2019. Papapetrou played a career-high 48:53 minutes and made a career-best 9 of 10 two-point shots and 6 of 12 three-pointers.
- Panathinaikos big man Dinos Mitoglou had a career-high 3 blocks against ALBA in February 2021.
- ALBA guard Jonas Mattisseck set a career-high with 3 steals against Panathinaikos in November 2019.