Panathinaikos rules out Sloukas for Game 5 decider, Osman a game-time decision against Olympiacos

What’s at stake

Olympiacos will host Panathinaikos at the Peace and Friendship Stadium on Saturday evening (13 June, 18:00 local) for the fifth and final game of the Stoiximan GBL finals. The winner lifts the Greek league trophy.

The Sloukas absence

Captain Kostas Sloukas did not practise on Friday and has been ruled out, the club confirmed. He joins Nikos Rogkavopoulos, who suffered a relapse of plantar fasciitis in Game 3, on the inactive list. Panathinaikos will also be without Rogkavopoulos for the third straight final.

Osman’s race against time

Turkish forward Cedi Osman took part in only a portion of Friday’s training session. Head coach Ergin Ataman will wait until just before tip-off to decide whether Osman can play. If available, he will take the foreign-player spot previously held by Juancho Hernangómez, who remains outside the six-man import rotation.

Panathinaikos’s expected foreign six

The six import slots at Ataman’s disposal for the decider are: Shorrs, Grant, Nunn, Osman (if cleared), Hayes-Davis and Lessort. Mathias Lessort and Panagiotis Kalaitzakis trained fully and are expected to feature. The Greek players completing the twelve-man squad will be Tolopoulos, Mitoglou, Kalaitzakis, Samondurov and Kouzelloglou.

Deciding the champion

With the series balanced after four games, Saturday’s winner-take-all match will determine the 2025-26 Greek champion. Panathinaikos will attempt to retain the title on the road, the same arena where the two rivals contested last season’s final.