{{Short description|Greek basketball player and coach (1928–2019)}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Nikos Milas | image = | image_size = | caption = | position = | height_ft = | height_in = | weight_lbs = | league = | team = | number = | nationality = Greek | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|7|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Athens, Greece | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|7|22|1928|7|9|df=yes}} | death_place = Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece | high_school = | college = | draft_year = | career_start = | career_end = | career_position = | career_number = | coach_start = 1960 | coach_end = 1976 | years1 = {{0}}{{0}}{{0}}{{0}} | team1 = Panathinaikos Athens | cyears1 = 1960–61,<br>1963–65 | cteam1 = Panathinaikos Athens | cyears2 = 1966–67 | cteam2 = Amyntas Athens | cyears3 = 1967–70 | cteam3 = AEK Athens | cyears4 = 1970–71 | cteam4 = Olympiacos Piraeus | cyears5 = 1973–74 | cteam5 = AEK Athens | cyears6 = 1975–76 | cteam6 = Panathinaikos Athens | highlights = '''As a player:''' *3× Greek League champion (1950, 1951, 1954) '''As a head coach:''' *FIBA Saporta Cup champion (1968) *3× Greek League champion (1961, 1968, 1970) | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{GRE}}}} {{MedalCompetition|EuroBasket}} {{MedalBronze| 1949 Egypt | As player}} }} '''Nikolaos "Nikos" Milas''' ({{langx|el|Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Μήλας}}; 9 July 1928 – 22 July 2019) was a Greek basketball player and coach. He was born in Athens.<ref name="SR">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/nikolaos-milas-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090336/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mi/nikolaos-milas-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Nikolaos Milas |accessdate=2016-05-26}}</ref>
==Playing career== ===Club career=== Milas was a skilled technical player, with good dribbling and shooting ability.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120111003233/http://www.athlitikihxo.gr/showhighlights.php?papercode=132313&imagecode=132313&words=%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AD%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B7%CF%82 Αθλητική Ηχώ 26/1/1951]</ref><ref>[http://www.basket.gr/archive/players/BestPlayer.asp?PlayerCode=508 ΕΟΚ]</ref> He played with Panathinaikos in his club career. He won three Greek League championships (1949–50, 1950–51, 1953–54).
===Greece national team=== Milas played on the Greece men's national basketball team in 8 games at the EuroBasket 1949 in Egypt (where they won a bronze medal), and at the EuroBasket 1951. Milas also played at the 1951 Mediterranean Games, and the 1952 Summer Olympics basketball tournament of Helsinki, (two loses against Hungary and Israel).
==Coaching career== In 1961, Milas won the Greek League championship from the post of head coach of Panathinaikos.<ref>[http://www.athlitikihxo.gr/showhighlights.php?papercode=105768&imagecode=105768&words=%CE%BC%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82+%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82 Αθλητική Ηχώ 24/9/1961]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was the head coach of AEK, in 1968, when they won the FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup's 1967–68 season championship, in Kallimármaro, Athens, against the Czechoslovak League powerhouse of the sixties, Slavia VŠ Praha.<ref>[http://www.sansimera.gr/archive/articles/show.php?id=134&feature=AEK_basketball_cup Σαν σήμερα] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416215552/http://www.sansimera.gr/archive/articles/show.php?id=134&feature=AEK_basketball_cup |date=2009-04-16 }}</ref>
On the bench of AEK, he also won two Greek League national domestic championships in the 1967–68 and 1969–70 seasons (the 1969–70 title was the last for the club until the 2001–02 season).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111003120403/http://www.aekbc.gr/DisplayITM1.asp?ITMID=2683 Ιστότοπος της ομάδας καλαθοσφαίρισης της ΑΕΚ]</ref> In the 1969–70 season, Milas also led AEK to the semifinals of the 1969–70 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, where his team was defeated by the French League club, Vichy, in a two legged aggregate score series (consisting of a 60–78 loss in France, and a 74–65 win in Athens).
==Personal life== Milas died on 22 July 2019, in Nea Smyrni, Athens, Greece. He was 91 years old.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sport24.gr/Basket/OmadesBasket/A1Aek/aek-apeviwse-o-nikos-mhlas-o-proponhths-ths-omadas-toy-1968.5564484.html |title=ΑΕΚ: Απεβίωσε ο Νίκος Μήλας, ο προπονητής της ομάδας του 1968 . |access-date=2019-07-24 |language=el |archive-date=2019-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723034955/https://www.sport24.gr/Basket/OmadesBasket/A1Aek/aek-apeviwse-o-nikos-mhlas-o-proponhths-ths-omadas-toy-1968.5564484.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Θρήνος για Νίκο Μήλα |url=https://www.aekbc.gr/el/articles-3036/thrhno-gia-niko-mhla.htm |website=aekbc.gr |accessdate=23 July 2019 |location=Online |language=Greek}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/nikos%20milas/pid//_//players.html FIBA.com Profile]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (archive)
{{Greece Squad EuroBasket 1949}} {{A.E.K. Athens B.C. 1967–68 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup champions}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milas, Nikos}} Category:1928 births Category:2019 deaths Category:AEK B.C. coaches Category:Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Category:Greek men's basketball players Category:Olympic basketball players for Greece Category:Panathinaikos B.C. coaches Category:Panathinaikos B.C. players Category:Basketball players from Athens Category:20th-century Greek sportsmen