League leader Olympiacos (22-9) will attempt to end its late-season dip in form by overcoming fellow title aspirant Monaco (19-12).
Game Notes: Olympiacos vs. Monaco

The team led by one-time Olympiacos icon Vassilis Spanoulis kept its top-four hopes under control by taking an overtime win over Zalgiris on Tuesday, in large part thanks to a late flurry of scoring from Mike James. He will now hope to take advantage of the Reds' injury-hit backcourt, while the home team need to give more support to star duo Sasha Vezenkov and Evan Fournier after they combined for more than 70% of the team's points in Tuesday's loss at ASVEL. Olympiacos doesn't strictly need the win as much as Monaco, but the home team will be determined to recover its form and send a message to a potential Final Four rival.
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- In the 2023 Final Four semifinals in Kaunas, Olympiacos came back from 12 points down to beat Monaco 76-62. Kostas Papanikolaou had 15 points and 8 rebounds in that game.
- Monaco and Olympiacos have met 13 times starting in November 2021. Olympiacos leads 7-6 in head-to-head games after an 80-89 win in Round 13.
- Olympiacos ousted Monaco 3-2 in the 2022 playoffs. Olympiacos won Games 1 and 3, while Monaco took Games 2 and 4. In the deciding Game 5, Olympiacos rallied to pull out a 94-88 win with Shaquielle McKissic scoring 18 points.
- Monaco head coach Vassilis Spanoulis is an Olympiacos Piraeus legend. He spent 11 seasons there and led the team to EuroLeague titles in 2012 and 2013, as well as championship games in 2015 and 2017.
- Olympiacos center Moustapha Fall played for Monaco during the 2014-15 season, when the club was in the French second division.
- Monaco's Terry Tarpey and Elie Okobo were teammates of Moustapha Fall and Evan Fournier on the French national team and won silver medals together at EuroBasket 2022.
- Fall and Fournier have been teammates of Monaco's Petr Cornelie on the French national team. Together they won silver medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
- Fournier and Monaco's Matthew Strazel were teammates on the French national team and won silver medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
- Monaco's Petr Cornelie and Olympiacos guard Nigel Wiliams-Goss were teammates at Real Madrid during the 2022-23 season and won the EuroLeague championship.
- Olympiacos center Nikola Milutinov and Monaco's Mike James were teammates at CSKA Moscow in the 2020-21 season.
- Monaco point guard Nick Calathes was a teammate of Olympiacos guard Tyler Dorsey at Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul for the last two seasons. Monaco center Georgios Papagiannis was with them at Fenerbahce last season.
- Papanikolaou, Thomas Walkup, Dorsey and Giannoulis Larentzakis have all been teammates of Calathes and Papagiannis on the Greek national team.
- Georgios Papagiannis blocked a career-high 5 shots while playing for Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens against Olympiacos in December 2021.
- Monaco point guard Nick Calathes posted his career high in rebounds with 13 while playing for FC Barcelona against Olympiacos in October 2021.
- Olympiacos guard Tyler Dorsey tied his career-best 7 rebounds while playing for Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul in Game 1 of the 2024 playoff series against Monaco. He also had 7 rebounds while playing for Olympiacos against Monaco in November 2021.
- Monaco guard Mike James recorded a career-high 5 steals while playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz against Olympiacos in March 2015.
Monaco guard Matthew Strazel made a career-high 5 three-pointers while playing for LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne against Olympiacos in March 2022.