Panathinaikos (9-7) will aim to protect its position in the all-important top six with a visit from dangerous Zvezda (6-10).
Game Notes: Panathinaikos vs. Zvezda



The visiting team is boosted by last week’s MVP Milos Teodosic producing some of the best form of his storied career, averaging 15.4 points and 7.8 assists in the last five games. Many of those passes have gone to Joel Bolomboy, who contributed 20 points in Round 16’s impressive win over Maccabi. So that Teodosic-Bolomboy connection will be a target for the Panathinaikos defense, while the Greens will again look for offensive inspiration from Kendrick Nunn after he reached double digits in scoring in the last six straight, including 17 points in last week’s road win in Milan.
- Zvezda's last win over Panathinaikos came in November 2021, an 81-48 drubbing. Those 48 points mark the fewest the Greens have scored in a regular season game this century.
- In March 2021, Howard Sant-Roos matched a Panathinaikos club record with 7 steals in an 82-86 win over Zvezda.
- Panathinaikos guard Luca Vildoza played for Crvena Zvezda last season and earned December MVP honors there.
- Panathinaikos big man Mathias Lessort played for Crvena Zvezda during the 2017-18 season. He was a teammate of current Zvezda players Dejan Davidovac, Branko Lazic and Stefan Lazarevic.
- Lessort had a career-high 7 offensive rebounds playing for Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade against Crvena Zvezda last December.
- Nemanja Nedovic spent two seasons with Panathinaikos, from 2020 to 2022. He averaged 15.1 points in 51 EuroLeague appearances over two seasons with the club.
- Panathinaikos guard Kostas Sloukas played under current Zvezda coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos at Olympiacos Piraeus during the 2014-15 season. They reached the EuroLeague championship game together that season.
- Panathinaikos forward Ioannis Papapetrou played under coach Sfairopoulos at Olympiacos for three seasons, from 2015 to 2018. They reached the 2017 EuroLeague championship game together.
- Crvena Zvezda point guard Milos Teodosic and his Panathinaikos counterpart Kostas Sloukas were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. Sloukas made his EuroLeague debut there in 2009.
- Sloukas was a teammate of Zvezda center Joel Bolomboy last season at Olympiacos. They reached the 2023 championship game together.
- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis and Bolomboy were teammates at CSKA Moscow during the 2021-22 season.
- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis has been a teammate of Zvezda forward Rokas Giedraitis on the Lithuanian national team.
- Giedraitis set his career-high in index rating with 35 playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz in an 82-97 road win over Panathinaikos in March 2021.
- Zvezda center Ognjen Kuzmic played for Panathinaikos in the 2015-16 season, making his EuroLeague debut that season. He was a teammate of current Panathinaikos center Georgios Papagiannis
- Kuzmic set his career-high with 15 rebounds in a 70-59 loss against Panathinaikos in October 2016 and had a career-best 3 steals against the Greens in November 2021.
- Zvezda forward Luka Mitrovic had 3 steals, which is tied for his career-best, against Panathinaikos in April 2015.

























































































