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Chapters: Basketball in Greece, A1 Ethniki 2006-07, A1 Ethniki 2005-06, Greek Basketball Cup, Heba Greek All Star Game, List of Top Scorers in A1 Ethniki by Season, A1 Ethniki 2008-09, Heba Greek All Star Game 2008-09, List of Basketball Clubs in Greece, Greek Basketball Hall of Fame. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The A1 Ethniki (Greek: A1 , literally "A1 National" in English), commonly referred to as either the A1 Basket (Greek: A1 ), the Greek League, or the Greek Championship is the highest professional club basketball league in Greece. It is run by HEBA, which is called in Greek. It is ranked as one of the 3 "A" level national domestic leagues in European basketball by the ULEB League Rankings System. It consists of 14 teams and runs from October to June, with teams playing 26 games each during the regular season. The first official Greek Championship was held in the 1927-28 season, although the first unofficial one started in the year 1925. The league's main sponsors are OPAP, which is the league's name sponsor and the Greek National Tourism Organization. Official Greek League English version logo.Basketball first came to Greece in the year 1910. By the year 1925 the first unofficial Greek championship had begun and in 1927 the first official championship began. There are three different official championship periods. The first one lasted from 1927 to 1963, when there wasn't a national championship and the champions of every district played at a later stage to define the Greek Champion. The second era started in the 1963-64 season when the Greek First Division (A Ethniki) was founded. In 1969, the EOK took over the duties of overseeing the competition and did so until the year 1992. The third era has existed since the 1986-87 season, wh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4779851