Former Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball executive Moni Fanan hanged himself at home on Monday. He was 63-years-old.

Paramedics tried to resuscitate the former Maccabi chairman for nearly an hour before he was declared dead.

Fanan managed the high-profile basketball club for 16 years and won 15 league titles before stepping down a year ago amid clashes with other team officials.

Damon Jones has signed a one-year deal with Napoli in Italy's top division, according to agent Andy Bountogianis of Cleveland-based Mark Termini Associates.

Jones decided to seize this opportunity to grab a firm offer in one of Europe's top leagues as opposed to holding out for another NBA job, with numerous veteran guards still searching for roster spots.

Olympiakos was on the verge of escaping the U.S. Tuesday with its uniforms and other property amid an allegation of a death threat.

The Greek club has outstanding U.S. court judgments demanding they pay $1.1 million to American player Chris Morris, who played for the club in 1999, and $410,000 to his American agent Tom McLaughlin.

On Monday another American agent, Gary Ebert, who also represents Morris, filed a report with police in Shreveport, La., alleging that he received a death threat from someone who claimed to be associated with Olympiakos president and owner Panagiotis Angelopoulos. Ebert tells SI.com that the threat followed a phone conversation he had earlier Monday with Angelopoloulos. Ebert says he then received a call from a man with a Greek accent.

"I got a phone call from a Greek cell phone number," says Ebert. "The guy was going off on me to leave Angelopolous alone. I told him I'm going to get the money [owed to Morris]. The guy said, 'Leave him alone, do this through the court.' I said I have the right to call him. He said, 'Look, (expletive), leave Angelopoulos alone or I'll kill you."