Extreme “green” for Nate Walters and deep “red” for Sasha Vezenkov lit up after the last training sessions of Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, the day before today’s (21:00) meeting in the crowded OAKA of the 16th round of the Euroleague. The home team’s American defender is undergoing intensive treatment for a troubling sprain and was back in the program yesterday, which is a hopeful sign for his participation in the Greek Clasico, even if he’s not 100% fit. Instead, the Bulgarian forward has once again been ruled out of training with an adductor problem and looks like he’ll need a little miracle to play tonight, if only for a little while. Final decisions will be made at the last minute and their coaches keep their mouths shut with doctors as both are valuable cogs in their teams’ machine.

“The match between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos is always special. We always play for our fans and we will do it again. The way they support us is amazing and very important to us. Of course, on the court we have to think only about things related to basketball and play exceptionally well against a very good team,” Dejan Radonich said, while Giorgos Bartzokas emphasized for his part: “They sold here and so many days, how and how waiting for this game… For us it is a match in a difficult stadium against a very good team, but for our opponents it is something more important than it seems. Both Thomas Walkup, who emphasized that Olympiacos is like a “pack of hungry dogs”, and Derrick Williams were clear about the importance of the derby: “Everyone was talking about this match from the first moment I came here, everyone was looking ahead, the program. to mark the date we play Olympiacos”!

Other today’s games of the 16th round of the Euroleague: 20.00 Red Star – Barcelona, ​​21.00 Villeurbanne – Alba, 21.30 Virtus – Fenerbahce.