A one-year contract extension to keep Kostas Sloukas at Panathinaikos Aktor.

The 35-year-old Greek guard has acknowledged retirement is approaching, but a meeting with team owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos produced an agreement for a contract renewal, thus pushing back the last chapter of a storied career for at least one more year.

Sloukas was on an expiring contract, on the last year of a lucrative three-year deal signed in 2023 to move his talents from Olympiacos to the opposite side of the Derby of the Eternal Enemies. With the Greens, he became a four-time EuroLeague champion in 2024, following earlier triumphs as a player of Fenerbahce and Olympiacos .

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