Olympiacos and the New York Knicks may play a friendly in the foreseeable future - the idea has been floated by Greek businessman Nikos Tsakos, in the wake of Olympiacos winning the EuroLeague last week in Athens and the Knicks breaking through to the NBA finals.

Tsakos, a shipowner with historic ties to both the Piraeus club and to New York, raised the idea of a business event in Athens. His son Panagiotis then went one step further: "We are talking to the club about it. Either for the opening of the refurbished stadium, or directly at Madison Square Garden. With half a million Greeks in New York, we will fill the arena."

Olympiacos of Piraeus, the current European champion after a 13-year wait, now has a roster with several former Knicks - Evan Fournier and Frank Ntilikina, plus Monte Morris, Tyler Dorsey, Kostas Papanikolaou, Sasha Vezenkov, Donta Hall, Alec Peters and Cory Joseph - who sits in the rare club of players with titles in both the NBA and the EuroLeague.

The friendly, if it happens, will be an interesting experiment - not only for marketing but for a direct stylistic comparison between Europe's top club and a finalist of the biggest league in the world. Whatever the result, the number of viewers will not be the problem.