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The Greece men's national basketball team (Greek: Eθνική Oμάδα Καλαθοσφαίρισης Ελλάδος) represents Greece in international basketball. They are controlled by the Hellenic Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Greece. Greece is currently ranked 13th in the FIBA World Ranking.
The sport of basketball has a long history in the country of Greece, having first come to the country in the year 1910. The first official championship of the Greek League, then called the Panhellenic Championship, was contested as regional champions playing against each other to decide a winner, starting with the 1927–28 season.
This is a list of the major honours won by basketball clubs in Greece. It lists every Greek professional basketball club to have won one of the two major Greek national domestic trophies, the Greek League championship and the Greek Cup title, as well as any of the major official European continental-wide competitions .
The following is a history of the basketball players and head coaches that have competed for the Greece men's national basketball team, at all of the major international basketball tournaments. Summer Olympics, World Cup and EuroBasket
Official Hellenic Basketball Federation Site (in Greek) Greek A2 Basketball League Stats; Greek A2 News, Results, Transfers, Opinions; Basketblog.gr (in Greek) Greekhoopz.com (in Greek) Greekbball.com (in Greek)
It directs and oversees all of the national basketball teams of Greece, including both the junior and senior national teams, of both men and women. From 1969 to 1992, the E.O.K. also solely oversaw the top-tier level men's Greek National Basketball League , before its basic operation was taken over by HEBA , starting with the 1992–93 ...
Aris Basketball Club (Greek: Άρης K.A.E., transliterated into English Aris B.S.A.) [3] known in European competitions as Aris Thessaloniki, [4] is the professional basketball team of the major Thessaloniki-based Greek multi-sport club A.C. Aris Thessaloniki. Aris BC was founded in 1922, eight years after the founding of the multi-sport club ...
Olympiacos team in 1943. The club had its beginnings in the 1930s. Olympiacos was the first Greek team to familiarize itself with American style basketball, as Alekos Spanoudakis learned to imitate the American style jump shot, and his brother, Ioannis Spanoudakis (who was both player and head coach of the team), met basketball legend Bob Cousy, and practiced many of his secrets and techniques ...