The National Team's first victory in basketball

In its first official basketball game, the national team defeats the Netherlands 46-28, in Cairo, during the 6th European Championship. Phaedon Mattheou scores 8 points, while the court fills with sand from the desert when the wind blows since it is an open-air court. It is the team's fifth game; the first four are friendly, the first held on June 25, 1936. Mattheou will compete with the national team 44 times and score 539 points. The Greek national basketball team wins its first medal (bronze) at the 6th European Championship, which concludes in Cairo. That is the only time the Championship is hosted outside Europe. The games started on May 5th, and the Greek team led by Phaedon Mattheou of Aris Thessaloniki defeated the Netherlands, Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria successively. At the same games, it lost from France and the mighty Egypt, which claimed the title undefeated.