The eventful Game 5 of this year’s Stoiximan GBL Finals and the “heated” incident involving Nan and Jones—who came to blows in the hallway leading to the locker rooms, with the Olympiacos player attempting to punch his opponent—resulted in penalties. 

More specifically, Tyrick Jones was suspended for a total of 7 games due to a repeat offense and was also fined a total of 54,000 euros.

Cedric Nan will miss two of Panathinaikos’s games and will pay 4,000 euros for his disciplinary offense of abusive behavior. 

Of course, the two basketball players are also required to pay fines, while the penalty imposed on Panathinaikos BC and Olympiacos BC—involving a deduction of points—is of particular significance. 

As announced, they will start the new Stoiximan GBL season for the 2026–2027 sports year with a -2 point deficit, and they were also fined 100,000 euros.

The decisions of the ESAKE Sports Judge are as follows:

1. Kendrick Nunn, a basketball player for PANATHINAIKOS ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL S.A. (trading as Panathinaikos AKTOR Basketball Club), is hereby suspended for two (2) game days and fined (specifically, verbal abuse) toward an opposing player, a two (2) match-day suspension and a fine of four thousand euros (€4,000.00), during the 2025–2026 A1 National League Championship game, against the team of OLYMPIACOS PIRAEUS BASKETBALL FANS ASSOCIATION S.A. (tr. OLYMPIACOS S.A.), which took place on June 13, 2026.

2. The following are acquitted: 1) Mathias Lessort, a basketball player for PANATHINAIKOS ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL S.A. (trading as Panathinaikos AKTOR Basketball Club), and 2) Jerian Grant, a basketball player for PANATHINAIKOS ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL S.A. (trading as Panathinaikos AKTOR Basketball Club) for acts constituting defamation of the sport, during the aforementioned game.

1. Tyrique Jones, a basketball player for OLYMPIACOS PIRAEUS FANS’ ASSOCIATION BASKETBALL S.A. (trading as OLYMPIACOS BC), a) for the disciplinary offense of abusive behavior (verbal abuse) toward an opposing athlete, which was committed as a repeat offense (final conviction for an inappropriate gesture), a two (2)-match suspension and a fine of four thousand euros (€4,000.00) and b) for the disciplinary offense of bringing the sport into disrepute (attempted assault), committed as a repeat offense (final conviction for an inappropriate gesture), a disciplinary penalty of suspension for five (5) match days and a fine of fifty thousand euros (€50,000.00), which (disciplinary offenses took place) during the 2025–2026 A1 National League Championship game, involving the team of PANATHINAIKOS ATHLETIC CLUB BASKETBALL S.A. (trading as Panathinaikos AKTOR S.A.), which took place on June 13, 2026.

3. Tyrique Jones, a basketball player for OLYMPIACOS PIRAEUS FANS’ ASSOCIATION BASKETBALL S.A. (also known as OLYMPIACOS BC) is acquitted of the disciplinary offense of inappropriate conduct toward an opposing athlete, as a result of which the latter sustained physical injury.

*photo source: KYPE