ATHENS, April 19 (Reuters) - Greek basketball giants Panathinaikos fired Serbian coach Aleksandar Djordjevic after an 84-75 home defeat by Spaniards Laboral Kutxa Vitoria sent them crashing out of the Euroleague on Tuesday.
"Panathinaikos BC announces the termination of its contract with Aleksandar Djordjevic," the club said on their official website (www.paobc.gr) after the outcome gave Laboral a 3-0 win in their best-of-five quarter-final series.
Djordjevic, who won a haul of medals in major events for his country and clinched the 1992 Euroleague with Partizan Belgrade as a player, broke into the spotlight as a coach after steering Serbia to the 2014 World Cup silver medal.