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Nikos Milas
Greek basketball coach and basketball player

Nikos Milas

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Greek basketball coach and basketball player
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Gender
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Place of birth
Athens, Greece
Place of death
Nea Smyrni, Greece
Age
91 years
Sports Teams
Greece national basketball team
Panathinaikos B.C.
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Biography

Nikolaos "Nikos" Milas (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Μήλας; 9 July 1928 – 22 July 2019) was a Greek basketball player and coach. He was born in Athens.

Playing career

Club career

Milas was a skilled technical player, with good dribbling and shooting ability. 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. He was the head coach of AEK, in 1968, when they won the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup's 1967–68 season championship, in Kallimármaro, Athens, against the Czechoslovak League powerhouse of the sixties, Slavia VŠ Praha.

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). In the 1969–70 season, Milas also led AEK to the semifinals of the 1969–70 FIBA European Cup Winners' 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).

Personal

Milas died on 22 July, 2019, in Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece. He was 91 years old.

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