Semi-finalists in the competition last year, they won it in 2023/24 and are currently the bookies favourites to do so again this time round.

Bookmakers BoyleSports curently have them at 9/4 and bookmakers Ladbrokes have them at 11/5 as they are predicted to be there or thereabouts once again when the comeptiton kicks off at the end of the month.

And it is not without reason either. In the 2023–24 EuroLeague championship they crushed Real Madrid 95–80 in the final to take their seventh title, but their first since 2011.

Ergin Ataman, their coach, is a respected coach who already took Anadolu Efes to the top, winning the EuroLeague in 2021 and 2022 and he’s now got Panathinaikos playing super fast and intense, which is how they bulldozed teams last season.

His knack for mixing toug

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