Marius Grigonis

In yet another match, Ergin Ataman will be without Marius Grigonis, as the Lithuanian star continues to experience back pain.

The Panathinaikos squad departed on Thursday (31/10) for Belgrade, where they will face Red Star the following evening (1/11, 21:00). Grigonis will miss his fourth consecutive game.

Panathinaikos defeated Anadolu Efes in Athens on Tuesday to stay joint fourth in the Euroleague, while Olympiakos suffered a road loss at Barcelona on Wednesday.

A great showing in the first half against Anadolu Efes sufficed for the Greens to beat their Turkish visitor 83-76.

Panathinaikos and Olympiakos are back level on the Euroleague table, after Panathinaikos won at Villeurbanne on Thursday and Olympiakos suffered a home reverse to Valencia on Friday.

The Greens defeated Euroleague bottom team Villeurbanne in France with an 89-81 score, to snap their three-game losing streak.

Panathinaikos secured its first road in this season's Euroleague beating Alba in Berlin, while Olympiakos suffered an unexpected home reverse to Baskonia.

The Greens dominated the game in Germany and deservedly won 99-85 to improve their record to 3-4 and enter the top eight spots that lead to the playoffs.

Turkish basketball club Anadolu Efes got their seventh consecutive win in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague regular season over the 89-62 victory against Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas on March 12. 

Anadolu Efes' playmaker guard Shane Larkin scored 18 points to lead his team to the Round 29 win in Istanbul. Larkin also had four steals.

BELGRADE - Partizan Belgrade lost 96-80 (21-19, 33-21, 19-18, 23-22) at home to Alba Berlin in a Eurocup Basketball Group C, Round 6 game on Tuesday.

In front of 4,300 spectators at the Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, Spencer Butterfield and Marius Grigonis led Alba to victory with 20 points each.

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