Minas Gekos

Personal information
Born	(1959-11-07) November 7, 1959 (age 64) 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)
Medals Men's Basketball Representing   Greece Mediterranean Games 1979 Yugoslavia

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 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 (1994–95).

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. ^[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 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 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)
• 9th all-time leading scorer of the Greek Basketball Championship, with 6,511 total points scored in the Greek A National League (1963–64 season to present).

Achievements as an assistant coach

• 2× Greek League Champion: (1998, 1999)

References

External links

• FIBA Europe Player Profile
• Hellenic Basketball Federation Player Profile (in Greek)
• Τα “κανόνια” του ελληνικού Πρωταθλήματος: Μηνάς Γκέκος (in Greek)
• AEK.com Profile