Mike James

Both Panathinaikos and Olympiakos suffered defeats on the road on Thursday for the Euroleague, probably not doing themselves any justice for their efforts in Belgrade and Monaco respectively.

The Greens went down 92-87 at Partizan in overtime, after wasting a 10-point led in the last few minutes of regulation.

Panathinaikos imposed itself on Olympiakos for the second time in the day to win Game 3 of the Basket League finals with a 73-58 score on Sunday and lead 2-1 in the series.

The Greens require one more win in the best-of-five finals to clinch one more league title, with Game 4 set to take place on Thursday in Piraeus.

Panathinaikos trounced Real Madrid in Game 1 of the Euroleague play-offs on Tuesday in Athens, while Zalgiris Kaunas got the better of Olympiakos for the third time this season snatching the home advantage from the Reds on Wednesday.

Olympiakos has clinched home advantage for the play-offs with its hard-fought win over Anadolu Efes, but Panathinaikos's win at Maccabi is probably more important as it kept it in the running for a top-four spot, with two games left to play.

Panathinaikos scored its third straight win downing Maccabi 76-75 in a thrilling game at Tel Aviv on Thursday.

Fenerbahçe took firm control of its Turkish Airlines Euroleague playoffs series with Panathinaikos by claiming a 75-80 victory at the Olympic Sports Center on April 20 to go up 2-0 before next week's return to Istanbul. 

Panathinaikos has all but confirmed home advantage in the Euroleague play-offs thanks to its huge win over CSKA Moscow on Friday and the simultaneous loss of Fenerbahce at Real Madrid. Meanwhile Olympiakos confirmed it will finish third after going down at Anadolu Efes on Thursday.

Olympiakos went down at Fenerbahce on Thursday in a game it should have won in Istanbul given its double-digit lead, while Panathinaikos chalked up a hard-fought win over the Russians of Unics on Friday at home thanks to a buzzer-beating shot by Mike James.

Panathinaikos defeated Baskonia 69-68 on Friday and has joined the Basques, Olympiakos - that suffered a bad loss at Bamberg on Thursday - and two more teams at the second place of the Euroleague table with nine wins in 14 games.

Panathinaikos and Olympiakos are back level on five wins from nine games in the Euroleague, as the Greens defeated Turkey's Darussafaka 86-80 at home on Friday after the Reds went down to Maccabi Tel Aviv (80-73) in Piraeus on Thursday.

Fenerbahçe Ülker reached the Euroleague knockout stages with a 98-77 home rout of Emporio Armani Milan while triple former winners Olympiakos Piraeus suffered a 74-73 setback at Laboral Kutxa Vitoria on March 20.