Minas Gekos


Minas Gekos is a Greek professional basketball coach and a retired professional basketball player. At 6' 1" in height, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Professional club playing 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.
In the top-tier level Greek League, he scored a total of 6,511 points, which is the 9th most total points scored in the competition, since the 1963–64 season. In the Greek A1 National League, he played in a total of 188 games, and scored 2,701 points.

National team playing career

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