Zvezda (3-3) will aim to end a three-game losing skid with a visit from Panathinaikos (4-2), which is seeking a third straight win after brushing aside ASVEL on Wednesday.
Game Notes: Zvezda vs. Panathinaikos



The Greek team will crash the glass through former Zvezda center Mathias Lessort and Konstantinos Mitoglou, who had 6 offensive boards in the win over ASVEL. Another ex-Zvezda star, Lorenzo Brown, will look to set the tempo in the backcourt after scoring 17 points, his best yet for the Greens, on Wednesday. Zvezda must quickly recover mentally after the heartache of its last-gasp loss at Zalgiris in Round 6, and will hope for another strong contribution from big man Uros Plavsic after he recorded career highs of 16 points and 9 rebounds in Kaunas.
Game Videos
- Panathinaikos has won the last five games it has played against Crvena Zvezda.
- Crvena Zvezda's last win over Panathinaikos came in November 2021, an 81-48 drubbing. Those 48 points mark the fewest the Greens have scored in a regular-season game this century.
- In March 2021, Howard Sant-Roos matched a Panathinaikos club record with 7 steals in an 82-86 home loss against Crvena Zvezda.
- Panathinaikos playmaker Lorenzo Brown made his EuroLeague debut with Crvena Zvezda during the 2019-20 season.
- Brown sank a game-winner against Crvena Zvezda at Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, where this game is taking place, in January 2021 when he made a buzzer-beating floater while playing for Fenerbahce Istanbul in a 71-73 win.
- Brown and Crvena Zvezda guard Isaiah Canaan were backcourt mates at UNICS Kazan in the 2021-22 season.
- Panathinaikos big man Mathias Lessort played for Crvena Zvezda during the 2017-18 season. He was a teammate of current Zvezda players Dejan Davidovac, Branko Lazic and Ognjen Dobric.
- Lessort had a career-high 7 offensive rebounds while playing for Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade against Crvena Zvezda in December 2022.
- Nemanja Nedovic spent two seasons with Panathinaikos, from 2020 to 2022. He averaged 15.1 points in 51 EuroLeague appearances over two seasons with the club.
- Panathinaikos guard Kostas Sloukas played under current Crvena Zvezda coach Ioannis Sfairopoulos at Olympiacos Piraeus during the 2014-15 season. They reached the EuroLeague Championship Game together that season.
- Panathinaikos forward Ioannis Papapetrou played under Coach Sfairopoulos at Olympiacos for three seasons, from 2015 to 2018. They reached the 2017 EuroLeague Championship Game together.
- Crvena Zvezda point guard Milos Teodosic and his Panathinaikos counterpart Kostas Sloukas were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. Sloukas made his EuroLeague debut for the Reds in 2009.
- Sloukas was a teammate of Crvena Zvezda center Joel Bolomboy at Olympiacos in the 2022-23 season. They reached the 2023 championship game together.
- Panathinaikos guard Marius Grigonis and Bolomboy were teammates at CSKA Moscow during the 2021-22 season.
- Grigonis has been a teammate of Crvena Zvezda forward Rokas Giedraitis on the Lithuanian national team.
- Panathinaikos center Omer Yurtseven and Crvena Zvezda forward Nikola Kalinic were teammates at Fenerbahce Istanbul in the 2015-16 season.
- Giedraitis set a career high in PIR with 35 while playing for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz in an 82-97 road win over Panathinaikos in March 2021.
- Crvena Zvezda forward Luka Mitrovic had 3 steals, which is tied for his career best, against Panathinaikos in April 2015.