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Rick Pitino has agreed to coach the Greek national basketball team and lead its effort to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The Greek basketball federation said on Friday Pitino will be officially presented on Monday, when details of his agreement will be announced.

The Milwaukee Bucks signed NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo's older brother, Thanasis, to a two-year contract, The Athletic reported Sunday.

The 26-year-old forward was a second-round pick by New York in 2014 and appeared in two games with the Knicks in January 2016.

The Athens native won his second straight Greek League championship this season with Panathinaikos.

The Cleveland Cavaliers were quick to halt any talk that they have interest in Rick Pitino as a candidate for their vacant head coaching position, cleveland.com reported on Sunday.

The report, citing an unnamed source, said the Cavaliers have had no conversations with Pitino and "are respectfully not interested in him at all."

Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF) chief and former NBA player Hidayet Türkoğlu has rebuked New York Knicks center Enes Kanter's remarks on Turkey as a "smear campaign."

Anthony Davis scored a season-high 48 points as the New Orleans Pelicans rallied from a 19-point third quarter deficit to defeat the New York Knicks 123-118 in overtime on Jan. 14.

LeBron James scored 23 points and reserve guard Kyle Korver added 21 as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied from a 24-point deficit Nov. 13 to edge the New York Knicks 104-101.

Thanasis Antekounmpo might be wearing the green jersey of Greek basketball champions Panathinaikos in the new season. According to a tweet posted by Israeli journalist David Pick, the brother of the “Greek freak” is reportedly ready to sign a 2-year contract worth $700,000.

Giannis Antetokounmpo (aka: The Greek Freak) has become the Milwaukee Bucks franchise players after signing a lucrative 5-year contract with them. And he proving why they made that choice. In his latest exceptional performance the Greek Freak led his team to a 104-93 victory over the New York Knicks with 32 points, 13 rebounds, 4 steals and 7 assists.

NBA stars Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Kristaps Porzingis of the New York Knicks battled it out in Athens in a game of streetball Sunday, watched by a crowd of 5,000.

Played in an open court in Greece's largest public high school, the "Antetokounbros Streetball Event" ended 123-123. No overtime was played.

The NBA’s “Greek Freaks”, brothers Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo, returned to their old neighborhood of Sepolia, in central Athens, on Tuesday for a pick-up game in front of neighbors, past teammates, friends and b-ball fans in general.