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Former Stanford and NBA player Josh Childress' first season of playing pro ball in Greece ended Monday night, and now the question is whether it will be his last.
Childress did not have a good offensive game as his team, Olympiakos, lost to Panathinaikos 94-81 in Game Four of the Greek League playoffs, thus clinching the best-of-five series for Panathinaikos, three-games-to-one.
Despite playing a team-high 34 minutes and tying a team high with seven rebounds, Childress made only one of eight shot attempts from the floor and finished with 10 points, thanks to 8-for-8 shooting at the foul line.
So Olympiakos' effort to dislodge Panathinaikos from the top spot by paying Childress a lot of money to play for Olympiakos fell short of its goal. Childress finished the first year of a three-year contract he signed with Olympiakos, but he has a provision in his contract allowing him to leave the team this summer and rejoin the NBA if he chooses. There was quite a bit of fan violence in two of the four games in the Greek playoff finals, and Childress said following Game One, when riot police had to be called in to control a crowd that threw objects at players and tried to break into the locker room afterward, that that incident might have an effect on decision.
Childress averaged a team-high 13.3 points for Olympiakos in Greek League play and 8.8 points in the team's Euroleague competition.
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