14 Facts About PAOK BC

PAOK BC, which was founded in 1926, and is based in Thessaloniki.

Men's basketball section of the multi-sports club PAOK BC AC was created in 1928, when Alekos Alexiadis, a young member of the administration council of PAOK BC AC, took the initiative to create a men's basketball team.

PAOK BC "gave birth" to the basketball department again, after World War II.

The next year, PAOK BC competed for the first time in a European-wide competition and was eliminated in the first round of the European Champions Cup by the Romanian champions CCA Bucuresti.

Three years later, the Greek League was reconstructed into a Nation-wide League, but PAOK BC was placed in the Second National Division, where they won an immediate league promotion to the first division the next year.

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PAOK BC met Panathinaikos in its first Greek Cup Final, in 1982.

Success of both Aris and PAOK BC, fueled the ongoing rivalry between the clubs, that had long been established in football.

PAOK BC won the Greek Cup by four points, in what is remembered as the "final of the shaven heads".

PAOK BC became the definitive leader of PAOK, and a fan favorite.

PAOK BC was often compared to the great Nikos Galis, who was at the time the captain of Aris.

PAOK BC had a number of injuries and medical emergencies because of weak legs, but he would constantly choose to take heavy dosages of painkillers, rather than missing out on important games.

Two days later, in the third-place game, PAOK BC defeated Spain's Real Madrid Teka, which was led by the Lithuanian star Arvydas Sabonis and American Rickey Brown.

PAOK BC competed in FIBA-organized Pan-European club competitions at that time.

PAOK BC made it to the ULEB Cup's quarterfinals that season, where they lost to the Lithuanian League club Lietuvos Rytas.