AEK Athens B.C. was defeated by PAOK 78-83 for the first game of playoffs at the Olympic Stadium of Athens.

Loukas Mavrokefalidis with 19 points was the first scorer for the ”Queen”.

Referres: Gondas, Foufis, Psarianos

The quarters: 24-16, 41-33, 61-52, 78-83

AEK (Jure Zdovc): Papantoniou, Katsivelis 5 (1), Brown 10 (1 3p – 6 as), Carter 8(1), Green, Kalampokis 10 (2), Milosevic 9 (1), Sakota 13 (3), Mavrokefalidis 19 (1 3p – 6 reb.), Mavroeidis 4, Sarikopoulos, Eric

PAOK (Soulis Markopoulos): Tepic 8 (1), Vasileiadis 17 (4), Kakaroudis, Tsochlas 3 (1), Dedas, Margaritis 16 (2), Kottas, Duvnjak 9 (1), Markovic, Hatcher 21 (1), Clanton