Superstar Giannis Antetocounmpo has led Greece to the semi-finals of the SEM basketball for the first time in 16 years. The team around the exceptional athlete from the NBA club Milwaukee Bucks defeated on Tuesday in Riga Lithuania in the round of the last eight with 87:76 (45:38).
In the preliminary round, the two -time European champion will meet Turkey on Friday. In the heated atmosphere, Antetokounmpo put on 29 points before 10,487 frenetic fans, most of them.
Last semi -finals 2009
Jonas Valanciunas came from the Denver nuggets to 24 points and 15 Rebound. At the EM 2022, Antetokounmpo and Co. failed in Germany in the quarter -finals in Berlin. In 2009 Greece had last reached an EM semi-final, at that time the team won bronze.