Evangelos Marinakis Basketball Altercation Draws Eyes in Athens Clash

Evangelos Marinakis was filmed in a heated evangelos marinakis basketball altercation during the Euroleague Basketball final in Athens on Sunday. The 58-year-old Nottingham Forest and Olympiakos owner was at the game as Olympiakos beat Real Madrid 92-85.

Footage shared on social media appears to show Marinakis in a ripped shirt and arguing in the stands. Security personnel and a barrier were between him and the other person involved.

Athens Final Footage

The video does not show who Marinakis was arguing with, but Greek media are reporting that the other person was Grigoris Dimitriadis, a former close advisor to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. That detail keeps the focus on the altercation itself, not on a public exchange that the footage never fully captures.

Marinakis has been a visible figure around football and beyond since taking over Nottingham Forest in 2017, and the Athens scene arrives after a run of disciplinary trouble in 2024. He was found guilty of improper conduct and handed a five-game stadium ban after spitting on the floor as match officials walked past following Forest’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by Fulham.

Forest And Olympiakos

Three months later, the Football Association described a Forest social media post about VAR Stuart Attwell as "an attack on the integrity of a match official on an unparalleled scale," and the club was fined £750,000. Forest’s official X account had called Attwell’s "integrity" into question after the club said three penalty decisions went against it in a defeat at Everton.

The timing also put Marinakis in the middle of two football stories on Sunday. Nottingham Forest drew 1-1 with Bournemouth on the final day of the Premier League season and finished 16th, while Olympiakos left Athens with the Euroleague title win over Real Madrid. The footage from the final adds another flashpoint to a year already marked by sanctions and heavy scrutiny around him.