Olympia Larissas sign Jason Fontenet - Mar 16, 2010 (by Eurobasket News)
Jason Fontenet (178-G-82, college: Oregon St.) has agreed on terms of contract with Olympia Larissas. The 27-year-old guard spent the previous season in Ukraine. He averaged 16.5 points, 3.4 assists and 2.2 boards and 1.2 steals per game for Ferro-ZNTU. Earlier Jason Fontenet played for the Tulsa 66ers in the D-League. There his stats read 9.0 points, 4.3 assists and 2.2 rebounds per appearance. Fontenet graduated from the Oregon State University back in 2006. [read more]
Jason Fontenet (178-G-82, college: Oregon St.) has agreed on terms of contract with Olympia Larissas. The 27-year-old guard spent the previous season in Ukraine. He averaged 16.5 points, 3.4 assists and 2.2 boards and 1.2 steals per game for Ferro-ZNTU. Earlier Jason Fontenet played for the Tulsa 66ers in the D-League. There his stats read 9.0 points, 4.3 assists and 2.2 rebounds per appearance. Fontenet graduated from the Oregon State University back in 2006.
18th All star Game: Greek player - Foreign players 147-114! - Mar 14, 2010 (by Chris Mammides)
In a great basketball celebration in Creta island, Sofoklis Schortsanitis (206-C-85) scored 42 points (with 3/5 three pointers!) the Greek players beat the foreign players with the extra terestrial score of 147-114! The highest score since the beggining of the history of the Greek All Star Games eighteen years ago! Big Sofo or Baby Shaq as his friends calls him was the MVP of the 18th All star game!
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In a great basketball celebration in Creta island, Sofoklis Schortsanitis (206-C-85) scored 42 points (with 3/5 three pointers!) the Greek players beat the foreign players with the extra terestrial score of 147-114! The highest score since the beggining of the history of the Greek All Star Games eighteen years ago! Big Sofo or Baby Shaq as his friends calls him was the MVP of the 18th All star game!
The three pointers went to another Panathinaikos player as the American Andrew Nicholas (191-G-81, college: Maryland) beat Bramos in the finals with 13 against 8 while in the Dunk Competition the prize went to Lance Harris (188-G) of Kolossos Rodou.
18th All Star Game: The Greek U20 beat the the Greek U22, 89-91! - Mar 14, 2010 (by Chris Mammides)
In another Basketball fiesta which took place in Creta island in Nea Alikarnasos, (a court which have been established in 2009 and can carry 10,000 basketball fans) and in the pre-game (one day before the original 18th Men's All star Game) the youngsters of the silver U20 Hellenic NT beat the one of the gold U22 Hellenic NT last night ina game whoch was 100% the celebration of the Greek Basketball, probably the best basketball in the European leagues [read more]
In another Basketball fiesta which took place in Creta island in Nea Alikarnasos, (a court which have been established in 2009 and can carry 10,000 basketball fans) and in the pre-game (one day before the original 18th Men's All star Game) the youngsters of the silver U20 Hellenic NT beat the one of the gold U22 Hellenic NT last night ina game whoch was 100% the celebration of the Greek Basketball, probably the best basketball in the European leagues. The game was marvelous and from the early beggining the older payers of the Hellenic NT U22 were leading the game with differences of 15, 20, 22 points and with the seven footers, Michalis Tsairelis and Giorgos Bogris (209-C/F-89) being dominant in the paint and in the rebounding area. During the second half though, the youngsters with the superstar Kostas Papanikolaou (203-F/G-90), balanced the game and at the end after many 'crazy' staff in the game (seven players in the court with Big Sofo joining the game at the end!!) the youngsters beat the 'oldies' with a basket scored at the end (counted for four points!).
MVP of the game was the player of Trikalla 2000, Michalis Tsairelis (209-F/C-88), while top scorer of the game was Kostas Papanikolaou as he stopped in the 32 points. the quarters were as follows: 29-25, 54-35, 67-63 and the final 89-91
In the three points competition, the young player of Olympiakos Konstantinos Sloukas (197-G-90) beat in the finals the young player of Aris Thessalonikis Linos-Spyridon Chrisikopoulos (205-F-92). Slouks scored 12 at the final round against 10 of Linos.
Tomorow, the 18th all star game will take place in the same court in Nea Alikarnasos of Creta at 19.00 CET between the All star Greeks and the all star foreigners.
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