Boosted by victory in last week's Belgrade derby, Partizan (3-8) will look to build more momentum with a tough test against high-flying Olympiacos (8-3), which is aiming for a seventh straight win.
Game Notes: Partizan vs. Olympiacos



The increasingly influential Carlik Jones will again look to lead Partizan after masterminding the win over Zvezda with 21 points, but repeating that feat against the outstanding defense of Thomas Walkup will not be easy. The Reds are firing on all cylinders and even the absence of Sasha Vezenkov didn’t matter in last week’s win over Baskonia, as his replacement Alec Peters stepped up by scoring 12 points without a miss from two-point territory. Olympiacos dishes more assists than any other team (21.6 per game), so disrupting that rhythm will be key for Partizan.
Game Videos
- Last season in Belgrade, Olympiacos beat Partizan 69-74 with Nigel Williams-Goss picking up a career-high 5 steals.
- Williams-Goss played for Partizan during the 2017-18 season; he made his European debut with the club.
- Nikola Milutinov earned MVP of the Round honors after leading Olympiacos to a 98-94 come-from-behind overtime home win over Partizan last season. He scored 16 points and made a career-best 12 free throws, accumulating 30 PIR.
- The all-time leader in games started, Kostas Papanikolaou set his career high with 39:35 minutes played in that overtime win, while Giannoulis Larentzakis posted his career high 23 PIR.
- Olympiacos center Nikola Milutinov spent three seasons with Partizan, from 2012 to 2015. He made his EuroLeague debut with the club. In the last two of those seasons, he was a teammate of Partizan team captain Vanja Marinkovic.
- Marinkovic and Milutinov have also been teammates on the Serbian national team, together they won the silver medal at the 2023 Basketball World Cup and the bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
- Milutinov was a teammate of Partizan guard Iffe Lundberg at CSKA Moscow for two seasons, from 2020 to 2022. Together they helped CSKA reach the 2021 Final Four.
- Partizan forward Aleksej Pokusevski grew up with Olympiacos, which he joined in 2015, spent there five seasons and made his EuroLeague debut in the 2018-19 season.
- Olympiacos edged Partizan 83-80 after overtime in the semifinals of the 2010 Final Four.
- Partizan's Frank Ntilikina and Olympiacos's duo of Evan Fournier and Moustapha Fall have been teammates on the French national team. All three have won silver medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Ntilikina and Fournier also won silver medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics and bronze at the 2019 FIBA World Cup.
- Olympiacos guard Thomas Walkup and Partizan center Brandon Davies were teammates at Zalgiris Kaunas during the 2018-19 season.
- Davies and Olympiacos guard Naz Mitrou-Long were teammates at EA7 Emporio Armani Milan during the 2022-23 season.
- Olympiacos point guard Keenan Evans scored a career-high 33 points playing for Zalgiris Kaunas against Partizan last December.
- Evans dished a career-high 9 assists in Zalgiris's road loss against Partizan last season.
- Partizan's Isaac Bonga had career highs in points (16) and PIR (24) playing for FC Bayern Munich in a road loss against Olympiacos in March 2023.