Barcelona suffers first home loss as Olympiacos pulls dominant upset
Barcelona ended its nine-game home-court win streak.
Olympiacos Piraeus never trailed beating FC Barcelona 88-96 on Tuesday at Palau Blaugrana in a makeup game from Round 9. The Reds snapped Barcelona’s nine-game home-court winning streak dating back to last season in improving to 65 on the season. The visitors jumped out to a 0-12 start and led by as many as 15 in the first half. Barcelona rallied to tie it at 77-77, but Olympiacos roared back and was too strong down the stretch. Hassan Martin scored a personal-best 17 points and grabbed 8 rebounds to pace the winner. Shaquielle McKissic added 16 points, Kostas Sloukas tallied 15 points and 10 assists, Kostas Papanikolaou scored 11 and Sasha Vezenkov 10. Nikola Mirotic paced Barcelona with 16 points, Brandon Davies scored 15 and Adam Hanga 10 as Barcelona suffered its second loss in its last three games to drop to 9-3.