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(詳細はGreek: Πανιώνιος KAE) is the Greek professional basketball club that plays its home games in Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece. The club is also widely known as Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, or Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis, which is the Pan-Ionian Gymnastic Association of Smyrna. This is usually abbreviated to the club name of Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ. Panionios B.C. is the basketball department of the Panionios Gymnastic Club that is based in Nea Smyrni, Athens. Panionios B.C. has been a long-time club of the Greek Basket League, which is considered one of the best domestic basketball leagues in Europe. Panionios B.C. has also competed in the Euroleague. For sponsorship reasons, the club has also been known as Panionios On Telecoms, and Panionios Forthnet. The club is currently owned by Antonis Margetis, and was previously owned for several years by Elias Lianos, the founder of Proton Bank. Some of the well-known players that have played with the club over the years have included: Fanis Christodoulou, Boban Janković, Panagiotis Giannakis, Theo Papaloukas, Jure Zdovc, Nikos Chatzis, Giorgos Sigalas, Faidon Matthaiou, Takis Koroneos, Angelos Koronios, Dimos Dikoudis, Žarko Paspalj, Thurl Bailey, P.J. Brown, Mitchell Wiggins, Travis Mays, Nikos Oikonomou, and Tyrese Rice, among others. ==History== The basketball clubs' parent athletic union, the Panionios Gymnastic Club, was founded in 1890, in İzmir, Ottoman Empire (located today in the modern country of Turkey), making it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Europe. The sporting clubs' basketball department was founded in 1919. After the Greek military suffered defeat in the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, the club was transferred to the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni, in Greece. The basketball department, Panionios B.C., began participation in the Greek Basket League starting in the 1928-29 season, and finished in second place in the league that year. Panionios B.C. finished in third place in the league the next year. Panionios B.C. has competed in the top Greek basketball league, in consecutive years, since the 1981-82 season. In the 1986-87 season, Panionios played in the championship finals series of the Greek League, losing out to Aris Thessaloniki, and their two Greek basketball legends Nick Galis and Panagiotis Giannakis (Giannakis would later go on to play for Panionios). In 1991, led by Fanis Christodoulou, the team won the Greek Cup championship, by defeating PAOK Thessaloniki by a score of 73-70. Panionios also played in the championship game of the Greek Cup in both 1977 and 1995. The club finished in 3rd place in the Greek League in the 1995-96 season, under head coach Dušan Ivković, and thus qualified to the Euroleague for the 1996-97 season. In the Euroleague 1996-97 season, the team was coached by Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou. In the Greek League 2007-08 season, Panionios, led by Ivan Zoroski, Ioannis Kalampokis, and charismatic head coach Nenad Marković, finished in 3rd place. They came back from an 0-2 deficit in the deciding best-of-five series against Maroussi, and won the series 3-2, which secured the team a place in the Euroleague competition for the Euroleague 2008-09 season. This marked the club's first Euroleague appearance in more than a decade.〔(Euroleague.net article on Panionios 2008-09 Euroleague team. )〕 The season 2014-15, Panionios relegated to A2 Ethniki after 33 years with consecutive presence in A1 Ethniki.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.star.gr/Pages/Athlitika.aspx?art=244635&artTitle=basket_emeine_ektos_a1_o_panionios )〕 For the season 2015-16, Panionios preferred to play in amateur Beta Ethniki due to financial difficulties.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/basket/stin-a2-to-peristeri-sti-b%E2%80%99-o-paniwnios/3109065 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panionios B.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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