Minas Gekos
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| Born | November 7, 1959 Panionios (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Panionios | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | AEK Athens | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Kolossos | ||||||||||||||
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Minas Gekos (alternate spelling: Gkegos) (
basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. At 6' 13⁄4" (1.87 m) in height, he played at the point guard and shooting guard
positions.
Professional career
Gekos started his playing career with
AEK Athens, where he played until 1991. With AEK, he won the Greek Cup
in 1981, and also played in the Greek Cup finals in 1978, 1980, and 1988.
Then he continued his career with
AEK Athens
, for the last season of his career as a player (1994–95).
In the top-tier level amateur Greek Championship (1963–1992), he scored a total of 6,511 points, which was the which was the 9th most total points scored in the competition.[1] In the Greek A1 National League (which only counts Greek League games played since the 1986–87 season), he played in a total of 188 games, and scored 2,701 points.
National team career
Gekos played in 53
1983 FIBA EuroBasket. He also won gold medals at the 1979 Balkan Championship, and the 1979 Mediterranean Games
.
Coaching career
After he retired from playing professional basketball, Gekos started his
Esperos Kallitheas
, in 1999.
He then became the head coach of
Panionios
.
He then worked as the head coach of
AEK Athens, and Kolossos
.
Awards and accomplishments
Achievements as a player
Achievements as an assistant coach
- 2× Greek LeagueChampion: (1998, 1999)