Euroleague

Olympiakos stayed on top of the Euroleague table with victory at Maccabi on Tuesday, while Panathinaikos succumbed to CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.

The Reds extended their perfect record so far with their first win on the road as they beat Maccabi 69-68 in Tel Aviv in a thrilling game decided by the last shot.

Olympiakos clinched a thriller against Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv on the road (69-68) for the third round of Euroleague championship. The win gives the Reds a perfect record of 3 out lot their first 3 matches. Georgios Printezis (21 pts) and McLean (8 pts) were leading scorers for the Greek team.

The Instagram account of the President of Panathinaikos basketball club and major shareholder, Dimitris Giannakopoulos, was flooded with messages by fans urging him to take control of the football club, minutes after the owner of Skai TV and outgoing President of PAO Giannis Ala

The Greek basketball league title will be decided in a a fifth and final game, after Panathinaikos defeated their arch-rivals Olymiakos at OAKA stadium (71-58) tying the finals series (2-2). The greens dominated the match throughout with playmaker Nikos Calathes leading his team with 14 points to its second victory in the best of five series.

A "healthy" team at the start of the Euroleague playoffs was vital to Fenerbahçe's Euroleague title, coach Zeljko Obradovic has said.

"Before the start of the playoffs, we finally had healthy players. We started working the way we like to do," Obradovic said in an interview with state-run Anadolu Agency.

Olympiakos might have lost the 2016-17 Euroleague basketball final, but they put a total of 1.73 million in their bank account. Based on announcements made by Euroleague CEO Jordi Bertomeu on the pool sharing of teams that took part in the competition, each win during the regular season brought in 40,000 euros, which means 760,000 for the reds.

Fenerbahçe fans and players were over the moon on May 22, cheering and dancing on the streets to celebrate the club's maiden Turkish Airlines Euroleague title.

European basketball's top club trophy remained in Istanbul after Fenerbahçe beat Greek side Olympiacos 80-64 on May 21 in the championship game in Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome.

Fenerbahçe became the first Turkish club to claim European basketball's top club trophy with a magnificent 80-64 victory over Olympiacos on May 21.

The victory marked another milestone for Fenerbahçe's legendary coach Zeljko Obradovic, who lifted the trophy for the ninth time with five different teams. 

The stage is set for a classic Greek-Turkish battle in the 2016-17 Euroleague basketball final (9pm Greek time), in Istanbul at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Fenerbahçe is one victory away from becoming the first Turkish club to grab the Turkish Airlines Euroleague trophy, and has the perfect recipe with fired up players, anxious fans and a cautious coach.