{"id":168600,"date":"2025-09-25T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:52:07","slug":"koumadje-parts-ways-with-olympiacos-at-the-end-of-preseason-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/168600\/","title":{"rendered":"Koumadje parts ways with Olympiacos at the end of preseason contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnny Askounis\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1872374\/khalifa-koumadje-leaves-olympiacos-euroleague\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khalifa Koumadje is back on the free-agent market following a preseason stint with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/olympiacos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Olympiacos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympiacos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds announced his departure on Thursday, at the end of this short-term contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1871266\/giorgos-bartzokas-talks-guard-christ-koumadje-euroleague\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Head coach Giorgos Bartzokas recently previewed a decision regarding the 29-year-old center.\u00a0<\/a>With<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1835104\/moustapha-fall-to-miss-10-12-months-following-knee-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Moustapha Fall on the injury list<\/a>, Nikola Milutinov, Donta Hall, and Kostas Antetokounmpo remain available for the five position, heading to the 2025-26 edition of the EuroLeague and domestic competitions in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1869699\/olympiacos-sidelines-keenan-evans-euroleague\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keenan Evans also sidelined<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1871734\/partizan-reportedly-set-to-let-ntilikina-move-to-olympiacos-for-e300000\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Ntilikina is expected to soon add to the current guard lineup<\/a> of Evan Fournier, Thomas Walkup, Saben Lee, Tyler Dorsey, and Giannoulis Larentzakis.\u00a0The rest of the squad consists of Sasha Vezenkov, Tyson Ward, Alec Peters, Shaquielle McKissic, Kostas Papanikolaou, and Omiros Netzipoglou, covering the forward slots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1858792\/olympiacos-bring-in-christ-koumadje-for-preseason-training\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Chadian big arrived in late August, penning a preseason deal.<\/a> He carried the experience of 89 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague appearances with ALBA Berlin over the last five seasons to the training camp. His professional career has stretched to spells in Spain, Russia, China, and the G League, since completing his NCAA career with Florida State in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on from the towering center, the Greek powerhouse traveled to Rhodes for the Stoiximan Super Cup 2025. In the Semifinals on Friday, the team guided by Bartzokas will meet Karditsa Iaponiki, looking to clinch a berth in Saturday\u2019s Final against AEK or Promitheas Vikos Cola.<\/p>\n<p>From there to Spain, to open the new EuroLeague journey against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/baskonia\/?lang=en\" title=\"Baskonia\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baskonia<\/a> in Fernando Buesa Arena on Tuesday and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/real-madrid\/?lang=en\" title=\"Real Madrid\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> in Movistar Arena next Thursday. The Stoiximan GBL schedule begins on October 5 with an away game opposite Maroussi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read the latest News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Johnny Askounis\/ info@eurohoops.net Khalifa Koumadje is back on the free-agent market following a preseason stint with Olympiacos.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-168600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}