Nikos Milas

Nikolaos "Nikos" Milas (Greek: Νικόλαος Μήλας, born 1928 in Athens) is a former basketball player and basketball coach from Greece.^[1]

Playing career

Club career

Milas was a skilled technical player, with good dribbling and shooting ability.^[2][3] He played with Panathinaikos in his club career. He won three Greek League championships (1949–50, 1950–51, 1953–54).

Greek national team

Milas was also a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. He was an international player with the Greek men's national team in 8 games. He played at the EuroBasket 1949 in Egypt, where he won a bronze medal, and at the EuroBasket 1951. Milas also played at the 1951 Mediterranean Games, and the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball tournament of Helsinky, (two loses against Hungary and Israel).

Coaching career

In 1961, Milas won the Greek League championship from the post of head coach of Panathinaikos.^[4] He was the head coach of AEK, in 1968, when they won the FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup in Kallimármaro, Athens, against the Czechoslovak League powerhouse of the sixties, Slavia Prague.^[5]

On the bench of AEK, he also won two Greek League national domestic championships in the 1967–68 and 1969–70 seasons (the 1969–70 title was the last for the club until the 2001–02 season).^[6] In the 1969–70 season, Milas also led AEK to the semifinals of the FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup, where his team was defeated by the French League club, Vichy, in a two legged aggregate score series (consisting of a 60-78 loss in France, and a 74-65 win in Athens).

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