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 club playing 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 Greek League, he scored a total of 6,511 points, which is the 9th most total points scored in the competition, since the 1963–64 season.[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 playing career
Gekos played in 53
Greek national basketball team. With Greece's senior national team, he played at the EuroBasket 1979 and the EuroBasket 1983. 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
- 2× Greek Cup Winner: (1981, 1993)
- 3× Greek Cup Runner-up: (1978, 1980, 1988)
- 9th all-time leading scorer of the Greek Basketball Championship, with 6,511 total points scored in the Greek A National League (1963–64 season to present).
Achievements as an assistant coach
- 2× Greek League Champion: (1998, 1999)