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Greek Basketball Cup
Season	2016–17
Duration	September 17, 2016 – February 18, 2017
Teams	30
Regular season
Season MVP	James Feldeine
Finals
Champions	Panathinaikos (18th title)
Runners-up	Aris
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The 2016–17 Greek Basketball Cup was the 42nd edition of Greece's top-tier level professional national domestic basketball cup competition. The competition started on September 17, 2016, and ended with the Final on February 18, 2016. Panathinaikos won the competition.

Format

The top six placed teams from the top-tier level Greek Basket League 2015–16 season, had an automatic bye to the quarterfinals. While the eight lower placed teams from the Greek Basket League 2015–16 season, along with the 16 teams from the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 Basket League 2016–17 season, played in preliminary rounds, competing for the other two quarterfinals places. The quarterfinals and onward rounds were played under a single elimination format.

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

The Final started one hour later than planned after Aris fans tried to break into the Alexandreio Melathron Nick Galis Hall without buying tickets.

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 33 Nick Calathes 15 4 3 SG 12 James Feldeine 18 2 2 SF 15 Vassilis Charalampopoulos 0 1 0 PF 21 Kenny Gabriel 3 8 1 C 0 Chris Singleton 9 4 1 Reserves: SF 3 K.C. Rivers 5 3 1 PG 5 Mike James 9 1 0 PG 7 Lefteris Bochoridis DNP PF 9 Antonis Fotsis 5 5 0 SG 11 Nikos Pappas 0 0 0 SF 25 Alessandro Gentile 4 3 0 C 29 Ioannis Bourousis 0 4 0 Head coach: Xavi Pascual

Panathinaikos Aris 2017 Greek Cup champions Panathinaikos 18th title

Starters: Pts Reb Ast PG 20 Will Cummings 20 2 1 SG 11 Michael Jenkins 12 6 2 SF 28 Vlado Janković 2 5 1 PF 34 Tadija Dragićević 2 3 1 C 33 Vassilis Kavvadas 6 3 1 Reserves: C 0 Justin Jackson 2 2 0 PG 4 Vassilis Xanthopoulos 0 3 0 PF 9 Michalis Tsairelis 9 3 0 SG 13 Theodoros Zaras 0 0 1 SF 16 Spyros Mourtos 2 0 0 C 17 Vassilis Symtsak 4 6 1 SG 22 Jamon Gordon 0 3 0 Head coach: Dimitrios Priftis

Awards

Most Valuable Player

Player	Team
James Feldeine	Panathinaikos

Finals Top Scorer

Player	Team
Will Cummings	Aris

References

1. Τσώχος, Μιχάλης (2017). "Τελικός Κυπέλλου μπάσκετ: ο Παναθηναϊκός Superfoods νίκησε τον Άρη". cnn.gr (in Greek). Online. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
2. Κούβαρης, Γιώργος (2017). "Παναθηναϊκός - Άρης 68-59 (pics)". gazzetta.gr (in Greek). Online. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
3. "Fans break into Greek Cup Final without tickets". Eurohoops.net. 18 February 2017.

External links

• Official Hellenic Basketball Federation Site (in Greek)
• Official Greek Basket League Site (in Greek)
• Official Greek Basket League English website (in English)

• Greek Basketball Cup
• 2016–17 in Greek basketball