KOSTAS PAPANIKOLAOU 18 POINTS IN EUROLEAGUE FINAL VS CSKA MOSCOW

                 CELTICS WIN IN PHILADELPHIA TO GO UP 2-1 IN SERIES
                  107-91 GAME VIDEO                  82-81 GAME 2 VIDEO
1. Celtics 107 Sixers 91-          Kevin Garnett (27 PT, 13 R)  Thad Young (22 PT)
                       THUNDER GO UP 2-0 ON LAKERS IN SERIES
                  77-75 GAME VIDEO                  119-90 GAME 1 VIDEO
2. Thunder 77 Lakers 75-       Kevin Garnett (22 PT)   Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum (20 PT)
                       RUSSIAN PBL LEAGUE FINALS GAME TWO
          CSKA MOSCOW GO UP 2-0 ON KHIMKI IN RUSSIAN FINALS
1. CSKA Moscow 79 Khimki 61-         Nenad Krstic (22 PT)  Jeff Adrien (16 PT)
                             TURKISH TBL LEAGUE SEMIFINAL
    BESIKTAS TIE UP GALATASARAY 1-1 AS DAVID HAWKINS LEADS WITH 24 POINTS
1. Besiktas 81 Galatasaray 72-            David Hawkins (24 PT) Boris Savovic (17 PT)
          GRAVELINES WIN FRENCH LNB REGULAR SEASON WITH 27-3 RECORD
                      FRENCH LNB QUARTERFINALS START MAY 22nd
                1. Gravelines VS Cholet            2. Le Mans VS Nancy
                3. Chalon VS Roanne                 4. Orleanaise VS Paris-Lev.

               FULL TITLE GAME 62-61 VIDEO--- SPANOULIS ARTICLE EUROJOHNBBALL

  VASSILIS SPANOULIS WINS MVP WITH BIG HELP FROM PAPANIKOLAOU & PRINTEZIS
      FULL GAME SEMIS 68-64     PAPANIKOLAOU DUNK     FULL GAME 4 VS MONTEPASCHI
1. Olympiacos 62 CSKA Moscow 61- Greek star guard Vassilis Spanoulis and a collection of young Olympiacos teammates were down 19 points to the big money players on the deep CSKA Moscow roster and after a 22-8 fourth quarter, Olympiacos were crowned champions of Europe winning the 2012 Euroleague title, as Vassilis Spanoulis won the Final Four MVP for the second time in his career, just as he did with Panathinaikos in 2009. Spanoulis has come a long way from standing in the corner of the Jeff Van Gundy Houston Rockets offensive sytem, as he waited for 3 point jumpers, as though his skill level was Kyle Korver or Steve Novak. Olympiacos got good playoff play from Kyle Hines and Joey Dorsey, who battled bigger players in the paint and also saw a new group of young Greek players stepup in tight games.  After leading Olympiacos in the semifinals versus FC Barcelona with 21 points and 6 assists, Vassilis Spanoulis scored 15 points in the title game versus Andrei Kirilenko and CSKA Moscow, on 4-9 FG, 2-5 from long range, 5-8 FT, 2 assists, with his biggest assist of his career going to Greek forward Georgios Printezis (Rights owned by KNICKS), who came up huge in the 4th quarter, hitting a right handed push shot from the baseline for the one point lead and win. Printezis scored 12 points in the game on 5-12 FG, 0-3(3PT), 2-3 FT and young Greek guards Kostas Sloukas along with Evangelos Mantzaris played good floor games in the comeback win, but it was 21 year old Greek small forward Kostas Papanikolaou who showed the type of skill level and heart he has, scoring a game high 18 points, on 5-5 FG, 3-3 from 3 point range, 5-6 FT and played tough defense on former NBA forward Andrei Kirilenko. Before last years 2011 NBA draft, that saw many European players drafted, EUROJOHNBBALL was on the Mike Missanelli sports radio show in Philadelphia, breaking down the top Euro picks and at the end of his picks, EUROJOHNBBALL said that NBA teams should take a look at Kostas Papanikolaou as a sleeper pick that has great promise. That sleeper label is now gone for Kostas Papanikoalou, as NBA teams now know his name.   CSKA Moscow was hot early from 3 point land, as Serbian guard Milos Teodosic hit 3 staight deep looks to build the early CSKA lead and finished with 15 points, on 5-13 FG, 4-9 from deep range, 1-2 FT and was followed by regular season Euroleague MVP Andrei Kirilenko with 12 points, 10 rebounds, 3 steals, while former NBA center Nenad Krstic added 11 points.  CSKA moves on to the Russian playoffs, while Olympiacos will battle Panathinaikos in the Greek finals to end their seasons.
   SPANOULIS MVP VIDEO   MORE FINAL GAME VIDEOS    PRINTEZIS INT.    SPANOULIS INT.
  PAPANIKOLAOU INT.        SPANOULIS TO PRINTEZIS LAST SHOT GAME WINNER VIDEO
               FC BARCELONA WIN 3RD PLACE GAME AT FINAL FOUR
               74-69 GAME VIDEO
2. FC Barcelona 74 Panathinaikos 69-Marcelo Huertas (21 PT) Dimitris Diamantidis (17 PT)