Minas Gekos

Minas Gekos
Personal information
Born	November 7, 1959 (age 65); Kurtuluş, Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Greek
Listed height	6 ft 1.75 in (1.87 m)
Listed weight	195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	1981: undrafted
Playing career	1975–1995
Position	Point guard / shooting guard
Number	9
Coaching career	1995–present
Career history
As player:
1975–1976	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
1976–1991	AEK Athens
1991–1994	Panathinaikos
1994–1995	AEK Athens
As coach:
1995–1996	AEK Athens (assistant)
1997–1999	Panathinaikos (assistant)
1999–2000	Esperos Kallitheas
2000–2002	Apollon Patras
2003–2004	Papagou
2005–2006	Maroussi (assistant)
2006–2007	Panionios (assistant)
2007	Panionios
2010–2011	AEK Athens
2012–2013	Kolossos
Career highlights and awards
	As a player: 2× Greek Cup winner (1981, 1993); Greek League All-Star (1991);
Men's Basketball
Representing Greece
Mediterranean Games

Minas Gekos (alternate spelling: Gkegos) (Greek: Μηνάς Γκέκος; born November 7, 1959, in Kurtuluş, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Greek professional basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. At 6' 13⁄4" (1.87 m) in height, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Professional career

Gekos started his playing career with İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi in 1975. He later went to Greece, and joined AEK Athens, where he played until 1991. With AEK, he won the Greek Cup in 1981, and also played in the Greek Cup finals in 1978, 1980, and 1988.

Then he continued his career with Panathinaikos, from 1991 to 1994. As a member of the Panathinaikos roster, he won the Greek Cup in 1993, although he did not play in the final. Overall, he played in 4 Greek Cup Finals, and scored a total of 73 points in those games. He returned to AEK Athens, for the last season of his career as a player (1994–95).

In the top-tier level amateur Greek Championship (1963–1992), he scored a total of 6,511 points, which was the which was the 9th most total points scored in the competition.^[1] In the Greek A1 National League (which only counts Greek League games played since the 1986–87 season), he played in a total of 188 games, and scored 2,701 points.

National team career

Gekos played in 53 games with the senior men's Greek national team. With Greece's senior national team, he played at the 1979 FIBA EuroBasket and the 1983 FIBA EuroBasket. He also won gold medals at the 1979 Balkan Championship, and the 1979 Mediterranean Games.

Coaching career

After he retired from playing professional basketball, Gekos started his coaching career in 1995, when he became an assistant coach under Vlado Đurović and Slobodan Subotić, in AEK Athens. In 1997, he became an assistant coach, under Subotić, with Panathinaikos. He became the head coach of Esperos Kallitheas, in 1999.

He then became the head coach of Apollon Patras, in 2000. He next became head coach of Papagou, in 2003. After that, he was Panagiotis Giannakis' assistant coach in Maroussi, and Luka Pavićević's assistant coach in Panionios.

He then worked as the head coach of Panionios, AEK Athens, and Kolossos.

Awards and accomplishments

Achievements as a player

2× Greek Cup Winner: (1981, 1993)
3× Greek Cup Runner-up: (1978, 1980, 1988)

Achievements as an assistant coach

2× Greek League Champion: (1998, 1999)

References

^ Τα “κανόνια” του ελληνικού Πρωταθλήματος: Μηνάς Γκέκος (in Greek).

External links

[1] Τα “κανόνια” του ελληνικού Πρωταθλήματος: Μηνάς Γκέκος (in Greek).

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