Kostas Papanikolaou became the leader in the history of Olympiakos in steals

THE Olympic easily passed the headquarters of Kolossos Rhodes in the 9th game of the Basket League, with the match going down in history, however, because of Kostas Papanikolaou.

With his three steals in Kolossos Rhodes – Olympiacos, Kostas Papanikolaou moved up to first place of all time for Piraeus, in the relevant list, surpassing Milan Tomics.

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On the face of it, this was a victory with which Olympiacos extended its unbeaten run against Kolossos H Hotels Collection. For the “red and whites”, however, yesterday’s (8/12) game in Rhodes had historical value on a statistical level, with their captain, Kostas Papanikolaou, as the protagonist.

The international forward became the leading “stealer” in the history of Olympiakos in Stoiximan GBL through the game with Colossos H Hotels Collection after stealing the ball three times, he reached 289 steals and passed another iconic leader of the “red and whites”, Milan Tomic who had 287 steals.

Papanikolaou is in his 12th season with the red and whites in the Stoiximan GBL and it took him 320 games to reach 289 steals – averaging 0.9 per game – while Tomic stopped at 287 with 63 more games to his name. Olympiacos in the Championship, 383 times. Thus “Pap” conquers his first top in the historical lists with the red and white in the years of Stoiximan GBL and forced Tomic to retreat in two (games and three-pointers).