Basketball

Partizan basketball players beat Red Star in the "eternal" derby for the leading position in the ABA league in "Stark Arena" in front of more than 17,000 fans.
Mathias Lessort played a fantastic match and scored 27 points with 8 rebounds and an index of 38, but this brilliant game was overshadowed by the incident when he hit Filip Petrusev at the end of the game.

While Euroleague leader Olympiakos' win over Bayern at home on Thursday was hardly a surprise, the victory Panathinaikos scored against Red Star Belgrade in Athens on Friday was definitely eye-catching, after a long string of six defeats for the Greens.

Panathinaikos came back from 16 points down to beat the Serbs 75-66 for only its ninth win in 28 games.

Greece's two representatives in the Euroleague continued their separate ways in midweek, with Olympiakos remaining at the top of the table with a home win over Barcelona, and Panathinaikos suffering another defeat, this time away at Monaco.

NIS - Red Star Belgrade won the Serbian basketball cup by beating Mega 96-79 (22-23, 29-21, 27-21, 18-14) in the competition's final in Nis late on Saturday.

Red Star won their third consecutive and ninth overall Radivoj Korac Cup, as well as their 12th national cup title in club history.

Olympiakos is staking a claim for the top spot of the regular season's table in the Euroleague after an emphatic triumph over Fenerbahce in Turkey on Tuesday, as Panathinaikos offered its fans more of the same on the road, going down at Real Madrid on Wednesday.

A game-worn jersey of basketball superstar LeBron James sold for $3.7 million at auction on Jan. 27, five times more than the previous record for one of his shirts.

The sale comes with interest even higher than usual in the 38-year-old LA Lakers icon as he nears the NBA's all-time scoring record.

Panathinaikos and Olympiakos employed different ways but still managed to notch up much needed home victories for the Euroleague this week.

Olympiakos continues to top the table after its 95-89 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv on Friday in Piraeus.

Slovenian NBA star Luka Dončić has made the starter roster for the All-Star game for the second time. This will also be his fourth appearance at the All-Star tournament in his five seasons at the NBA.

The Boston Celtics shook off the absence of injured Jayson Tatum and the early exits of Marcus Smart and Robert Williams to beat the Toronto Raptors 106-104 on Jan. 21 and push their NBA winning streak to nine games.

Jaylen Brown scored 27 points and Grant Williams added a career-high 25 for the Celtics, who improved their league-best record to 35-12.

Olympiakos recaptured the summit of the Euroleague table through an emphatic home win over hitherto leader Real Madrid on Friday. Panathinaikos, in turn, suffered one more defeat on the road on Thursday, this time at Virtus Bologna.

This was a night of triumph for Olympiakos at the Peace and Friendship Stadium as it defeated Real 73-60 in front of a capacity crowd.