Notable Foreign Basketball Coaches in Greece
Many foreign coaches have been active in the Greek League. The most important one among them is the Serbian coach Željko Obradović, who has been head coach at Panathinaikos since 1999. Since starting his coaching career in 1991, Obradović has won eight Euroleague championships, five of them with Panathinaikos, and a total of 31 championships as a professional club coach, making him the most successful head coach in European basketball history. Another foreign coach who has worked in the Greek League is Boža Maljković, who has won 19 championships in his coaching career. In 1996, he led Panathinaikos to their first Euroleague championship, which was also the first ever for a Greek club.
Another foreign head coach who works in the Greek League is the multiple world and European champion, Duda Ivković. Ivković coached five teams in Greece (Aris, PAOK, Panionios, Olympiacos, and AEK), and he twice led Greek clubs to winning a European Cup. The three-time Euroleague-winning head coach, the Israeli Pini Gershon, has also coached in the Greek League. Obradović, Maljković, Ivković, and Gershon were honored in 2008, when they were named four of the 10 most important coaches in the history of the Euroleague. Some other important foreign coaches that have coached in the Greek League are the American NBA head coach Scott Skiles, the legendary Krešimir Ćosić, Željko Pavličević, Dragan Šakota, Jonas Kazlauskas, and Zvi Sherf.
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