Dimitrios 'Dimitris' Diamantidis ( ; born 6 May 1980) is a retired Greek professional

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player, who spent the last twelve seasons of his

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career with Panathinaikos. Widely regarded as one of the greatest European players ever to grace the game, he marked his era by being the most versatile player in the EuroLeague, serving as an inspiration to a whole generation of young European stars. Diamantidis is the only Greek player who is a member of both the EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team and the EuroLeague 2010–2020 All-Decade Team. In 2016, Diamantidis was honored with the highest European award, being named as a EuroLeague Legend for his career accomplishments. At the age of fourteen, Diamantidis started his basketball career with the youth clubs of his hometown team, AS Kastoria. A year later, he made his professional debut with Iraklis Thessaloniki, had daughter, Ema Diamantidis and two years later by 2003, he had emerged as an all-around star in the Greek League. He became a member of Panathinaikos Athens in the summer of 2004, with whom he won three

titles, in

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, and

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, with the last two coming as the team's captain. Diamantidis' numerous accolades in the premier European club competition include a EuroLeague MVP Award, two EuroLeague Final Four MVP Awards, four All-EuroLeague First Team selections, as well as a record six EuroLeague Best Defender Awards. He is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in steals since the stat was first officially recognized starting with the 1991–92 season. On 1 April 2016, he was honored with a EuroLeague Basketball Legend Award. Amidst a long series of "derbies of the eternal enemies", opposing Panathinaikos and Olympiacos Piraeus, Diamantidis thrived, as he faced Olympiacos every year for twelve consecutive seasons, including in eleven Greek League Finals, six Greek Cup Finals, and a EuroLeague semifinal. He won nine Greek League and ten

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titles, alongside four Greek League Finals MVP and a record six Greek League MVP awards, as well as two Greek Cup MVP awards. Diamantidis' personal friendship and rivalry with Olympiacos star

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, was at the center of attention throughout six Greek League Finals and three Greek Cup Finals encounters. Diamantidis' self-effacing psyche helped relieve tension between the two powerhouses, when he retired in 2016. As a member of the Greece men's national basketball team, Diamantidis won a

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gold medal in

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; while anchoring a defense that allowed just 59.7 points per game. He also scored the three-pointer that sealed the fate of the semifinal game against

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, just seconds before the game's final buzzer. He also led that tournament in assists, and was a part of the All-EuroBasket Team. In

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, he played a pivotal role in a

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silver medal campaign, with Greece stunning

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in the semifinals, and Diamantidis finishing as the competition's steals leader. Diamantidis was also a two-time Olympian, as he donned the Greek colours in

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and

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, and on both occasions earned the fifth place of the tournament, which is tied for the all-time best finish for Greece. On the basis of his myriad achievements, he was named the Mister Europa Player of the Year by Italian sports magazine Superbasket in 2007. He was also named the Greek Male Athlete of the Year in 2007. He was inducted into the

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in 2022.

Early years

Diamantidis was born in

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, on 6 May 1980. He began playing the sport of basketball with the

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s of the local club AS Kastoria. The club would later go on to name its home arena, Dimitris Diamantidis Indoor Hall, after him in his honor.

Professional career

Iraklis Thessaloniki

In summer 1999, at age 19, Diamantidis began his professional career, when he signed with the

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club Iraklis Thessaloniki. In his first pro season, in the 1999–00 Greek League season, he averaged 1.5 points, 1.6 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.3 blocks per game. In his first season with the club, Diamantidis also played in the European-wide secondary league, the

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. Diamantidis averaged 1.8 points, 1.2 rebounds, 0.4 assists, and 1.2 steals per game, during the Saporta Cup 1999–00 season. In his second season with the club, in the 2000–01 Greek League season, he upped his averages to 3.4 points, 2.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.3 blocks per game. Diamantidis also played in what was one of the two premier European-wide club competitions at that time, the

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. He averaged 2.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 1.4 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game, during the SuproLeague's 2000–01 season. In his third season with Iraklis, he continued to up his numbers in the Greek League, as he averaged 6.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.5 steals, and 0.4 blocks per game, during the 2001–02 Greek League season. He was selected to the Greek League's All-Star Game, for the first time that season. Diamantidis also once again played in the Pan-European secondary league, in which he averaged 7.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.7 steals, and 0.8 blocks per game, during the Saporta Cup's 2001–02 season. In his fourth season with Iraklis, Diamantidis only played in the national domestic Greek Basket League. He continued to improve his individual numbers and performances, as he averaged 11.5 points, 5.6 rebounds, 5.0 assists, a league-leading 2.5 steals, and 0.9 blocks per game, during the 2002–03 Greek League season. He was also once again voted to the Greek League's All-Star Game. In his fifth and final season with Iraklis, Diamantidis had his best year with the club. He averaged 14.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists, a league-leading 2.5 steals, and 0.7 blocks per game, during the 2003–04 Greek League season. Due to his play, he was again voted to the Greek League's All-Star Game, and at the end of the season, he was also named the Greek League's MVP for the season. During his five seasons with Iraklis, one of the oldest Greek clubs, Diamantidis managed to help bring the team back into prominence in Greek competitions, after the club had been struggling in previous years.

Panathinaikos Athens

After his continued improvement and success with Iraklis, Diamantidis made a big step up in his career, with his move to Panathinaikos of

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, in 2004; a basketball powerhouse of the

, and also of the

. During his career with Panathinaikos, Diamantidis was given the nickname of "3-D", which stood for "Dimitris Diamantidis Defense" by the club's fans. Due to great individual and team successes, the late pharmaceutical magnate Pavlos Giannakopoulos, who was at that time the President of Panathinaikos, signed Diamantidis in 2008, to a 3-year,

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5.7 million

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contract extension. In 2010, Diamantidis again renewed his contract with Panathinaikos for another 3 years, at

10.8 million

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(€6 million

). On 21 February 2013 Diamantidis became the EuroLeague's career leader in steals. On 4 July 2013 Diamantidis renewed his contract with Panathinaikos for another 2 years, at a salary of €1.9 million net income per year. On 30 October 2014 Diamantidis became the first player in EuroLeague history to have dished out at least 1,000 career assists. On 2 September 2015 Diamantidis announced his retirement from playing professional club basketball, effective at the end of the 2015–16 Greek League season. In his last season with Panathinaikos, he was voted the Greek League Most Popular Player. Diamantidis retired as the all-time career leader in both assists and Performance Index Rating (PIR) in the entire history of the EuroLeague. Those records were eventually broken. While he was a member of Panathinaikos, Diamantidis and

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shared one of the most successful collaborations between a player and his

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in the history of European club basketball. During his time with Panathinaikos, Diamantidis won the

championship three times (

), the Greek League championship nine times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014), and the

title ten times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). He also won the Triple Crown in 2007 and 2009. Diamantidis also won several individual trophies with Panathinaikos, such as: the

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in 2011, the EuroLeague Final Four MVP twice (2007, 2011), the

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six times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011), five of his six total Greek League MVP awards (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014), the Greek League Finals MVP four times (2006, 2007, 2011, 2014), and the MVP of the Greek Cup in 2009 and 2016. While he was a member of Panathinaikos, Diamantidis was also named the 2007

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, and the 2007 Greek Athlete of the Year. After he ended his playing career, Diamantidis had his #13 playing jersey officially retired by Panathinaikos. In 2020, Diamantidis was named "The Best Greek Professional Basketball Player of The 2010s Decade", by the readers of the Greek website Gazzetta.gr. In 2022, he became a member of the

National team career

Diamantidis was a member of the Greek under-20 junior national team. He played with Greece's under-20 junior national team at the

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, where Greece finished in seventh place. He averaged 3.0 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.3 assists, and 2.5 steals per game at the tournament. As a part of the Greek men's under-26 national selection, Diamantidis won the silver medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. Diamantidis was also a member of the Greece men's national basketball team. With Greece's senior team, he won the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA Stanković World Cup, and seven Acropolis Tournaments, while also being named the tournament's

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twice, in 2005 and 2006. On 4 September 2010, after Greece's elimination in the Eighth-Finals of the 2010 FIBA World Cup, at the hands of

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(by a score of 80–72), Diamantidis announced his immediate retirement from the Greece National Team. He had 16 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks in his last game with Greece's national team. He finished his career bearing the Greek flag, having played in 124

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, and having scored a total of 760 points, for a scoring average of 6.13 points per game.

FIBA EuroBasket

With the Greece men's national basketball team, Diamantidis participated at the 2003 EuroBasket, where Greece finished in fifth place, after beating

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, by a score of 72–64. Diamantidis won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket. During the

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that year, he led the tournament in assists, and was selected to the All-Tournament Team. In the tournament's semifinals against the French national team, Diamantidis hit a game-winning three-point shot, with Greece trailing by a score of 66–64, at the end of the game, to give Greece a 67–66 victory, and send them to the European Championship's final game. Diamantidis made 7 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 2 blocks for Greece at the 2007 EuroBasket, losing the bronze medal to

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, 78–69. He was named to the FIBA EuroBasket 2000–2020 Dream Team in 2020.

FIBA World Cup

Diamantidis won the silver medal with Greece at the 2006 FIBA World Cup, which was held in

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. In the tournament's semifinals, he was a key factor in Greece's historic 101–95 victory against

, with 12 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals, while facing the likes of

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, and

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. The defeat suffered by the United States team was the only one during Mike Krzyzewski's second era as the team's head coach (2005–2016). Coach Krzyzewski, in a press conference during the 2014 FIBA World Cup, stated: ''"2006, that's a lesson we learned. The Greek Team taught us'' (

) ''how to play internationally."'' Diamantidis also represented Greece at the 2010 FIBA World Cup. He averaged 10.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.5 steals, and 0.5 blocks per game at that tournament.

Summer Olympic Games

Diamantidis was a member of Greece's senior national team that competed at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. He was also selected to play on Greece's senior national team for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Greece finished in fifth place in both tournaments, losing both times to

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in the competition's quarterfinals.

Managerial career

Diamantidis retired from playing professional club basketball in 2016. Four years later, in 2020, he became the

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of the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, the same team that he had spent the last 12 seasons of his playing career with. As the team's general manager over two years, Diamantidis won three titles: the

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season's championship, the 2020–21 Greek Basketball Cup title, and the 2021 Greek Basketball Super Cup title.

Player profile

As a left-handed player, Diamantidis played as a

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, and

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. In the Greek men's national basketball team, his primary position was small forward, with him often being utilized as a

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. He was primarily a pass first playmaker with outstanding court vision, and an excellent three point shooter, both in spot up situations and off the dribble. He liked to post up smaller point guards. Gifted with a tremendous

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for his height (2.16 m or 7'1"), and a unique feel for positioning, he was generally considered to be one of the best defensive players ever to play in the

, having won the

award in five consecutive seasons, and once again, two years later. As demonstrated by numerous gamechanging actions in crucial situations, Diamantidis was considered to be one of the best decision makers and clutch players in European basketball history.

Career statistics

EuroLeague

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, - , style="text-align:left;" , 2000–01 , style="text-align:left;" , Iraklis , 13 , , 0 , , 14.2 , , .269 , , .200 , , .750 , , 1.8 , , 1.2 , , 1.4 , , .6 , , 2.2 , , 3.2 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;"colspan=2, Career SL , 13 , , 0 , , 14.2 , , .269 , , .200 , , .750 , , 1.8 , , 1.2 , , 1.4 , , .6 , , 2.2 , , 3.2 , - ! colspan="14" ,

, - , style="text-align:left;", 2004–05 , style="text-align:left;" rowspan="12", Panathinaikos , 25 , , 20 , , 27.4 , , .544 , , .467 , , .709 , , 3.7 , , 3.1 , , 2.0 , , .6 , , 8.5 , , 12.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2005–06 , 23 , , 22 , , 30.1 , , .492 , , .269 , , .785 , , 4.5 , , 2.9 , , 2.3 , , .8 , , 8.7 , , 13.1 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;", 2006–07† , 24 , , 24 , , 29.1 , , .489 , , .460 , , .780 , , 3.9 , , 3.9 , , 2.2 , , .6 , , 8.9 , , 14.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2007–08 , 19 , , 19 , , 30.9 , , .484 , , .435 , , .769 , , 5.3 , , 3.3 , , 1.8 , , .7 , , 8.5 , , 15.1 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;", 2008–09† , 21 , , 12 , , 27.3 , , .486 , , .441 , , .863 , , 4.4 , , 3.1 , , 1.5 , , .5 , , 8.5 , , 14.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2009–10 , 12 , , 9 , , 26.7 , , .559 , , .516 , , .738 , , 2.9 , , 3.3 , , 1.5 , , .3 , , 9.4 , , 13.7 , - , style="text-align:left;background:#AFE6BA;",

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† , 22 , , 21 , , 30.5 , , .433 , , .370 , , .872 , , 3.9 , , style="background:#CFECEC;", 6.2* , , 1.6 , , .1 , , 12.5 , , 18.5 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2011–12 , style="background:#CFECEC;", 23* , , style="background:#CFECEC;", 21* , , 30.0 , , .448 , , .425 , , .882 , , 3.7 , , 4.8 , , 1.5 , , .5 , , 11.5 , , 16.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2012–13 , 27 , , 25 , , 31.5 , , .368 , , .315 , , .712 , , 3.4 , , 5.8 , , 1.4 , , .4 , , 8.1 , , 13.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2013–14 , 29 , , 27 , , 31.2 , , .324 , , .283 , , .763 , , 2.4 , , style="background:#CFECEC;", 6.2* , , 1.4 , , .1 , , 8.9 , , 12.8 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2014–15 , 27 , , 27 , , 27.3 , , .410 , , .379 , , .814 , , 2.3 , , 5.9 , , .9 , , .3 , , 8.0 , , 12.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2015–16 , 26 , , 1 , , 21.2 , , .459 , , .376 , , .827 , , 2.3 , , 4.2 , , .8 , , .2 , , 7.2 , , 10.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;"colspan=2, Career EL , 278 , , 228 , , 28.7 , , .442 , , .375 , , .795 , , 3.5 , , 4.5 , , 1.6 , , .4 , , 9.0 , , 13.7 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;"colspan=2, Career SL/ EL , 291 , , 228 , , 28.0 , , .440 , , .373 , , .794 , , 3.4 , , 4.4 , , 1.6 , , .4 , , 8.7 , , 13.2

International statistics

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

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World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

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Awards and honors

Club career

* 3×

Champion A champion (from the late Latin ''campio'') is the victor in a challenge, Competition, contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional/provincial/state, national, continental and world champi ...

* 9× Greek League Champion: 2005,

, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 * 10×

Winner: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 * 2× Triple Crown Winner: 2007, 2009

Greek senior national team

* 2001 Mediterranean Games: * 2005 EuroBasket: * 2006 FIBA Stanković World Cup: *

2006 FIBA World Championship The 2006 FIBA World Championship was the 15th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by Japan and held from 19 August to 3 September 2006. It was co-organised b ...

: * 7× Acropolis Tournament Champion: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010

Individual awards

Pro clubs

: 2011 * 2× EuroLeague Final Four MVP: 2007, 2011 *6×

*4× All-EuroLeague First Team:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* 2× EuroLeague MVP of the Month: December 2010, March/April 2012 * 5×

EuroLeague MVP of the Round The EuroLeague MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the Round, previously known as the EuroLeague MVP of the Week, is an EuroLeague awards, award of European professional club basketball system, Europe's premier level basketball league, the EuroLeague, t ...

: 2008 (Top 16 Week 3), 2010 (regular-season Week 3), 2012 (2× - Playoff Games 1 and 5), 2014 (Top 16 Week 3) * EuroLeague 2000–2010 All-Decade Team: 2010 * EuroLeague 2010–20 All-Decade Team: 2020 * EuroLeague Legend: 2016 * 2× EuroLeague Assists Leader:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* 2× Eurobasket.com's All-

Defensive Team: 2008, 2011 * 6× Greek League MVP: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 * 4× Greek League Finals MVP: 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014 * 3× Greek League Best Defender: 2008, 2009, 2011 * 11× All-Greek League Team: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 * 12× Greek League All-Star: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 * Greek League Assists Leader: 2007 * 6× Led Greek League in steals: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 * 8× All-Greek League Defensive Team (

–

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

) * 2× Greek Cup Finals MVP: 2009, 2016 * 2× Greek Cup Finals Top Scorer: 2009, 2013 * Greek League Most Popular Player: 2016 * Greek Male Athlete of the Year: 2007 *

assists leader:

EuroBasket All-Tournament Team The FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team, or FIBA EuroBasket All-Star Five, is the FIBA Europe award that is bestowed upon the five best players of each FIBA EuroBasket tournament. Pau Gasol holds the record for the most selections in the All-E ...

* Superbasket Magazine's Mister Europa Player of the Year: 2007 * Eurobasket.com's All-Europe Player of the Year: 2007 * 6× Eurobasket.com's All-Greek League Player of the Year: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014 * 10× Eurobasket.com's All-Greek League Domestic Players Team: 2005, 2006–2008, 2010–2016 * 12× Eurobasket.com's All-Greek League Defensive Team: 2004, 2005, 2007–2011–2016 * EuroLeague career steals leader since the 2000–01 season * Professional Greek Basket League career steals leader * No. 13 retired by Panathinaikos: 2016 * 101 Greats of European Basketball: 2018 * Greek League Hall of Fame: 2022

Greek senior national team

All-Tournament Team:

Assists Leader:

Steals Leader:

* 2× Acropolis Tournament MVP: 2005, 2006 *

FIBA EuroStar FIBA EuroStars was an annual All-Star Game showcase of the sport of European professional club basketball. It was organized by FIBA Europe. Commonly considered to be the European equivalent of the NBA All-Star Game, the FIBA EuroStars Game featu ...

: 2007 * Voted one of the Greece men's national basketball team's Best 5 Players of the

's 2000–2020 era: 2020 * EuroBasket 2000–2020 Dream Team: 2020

Early years

Professional career

Iraklis Thessaloniki

Panathinaikos Athens

National team career

FIBA EuroBasket

FIBA World Cup

Summer Olympic Games

Managerial career

Player profile

Career statistics

EuroLeague

International statistics

Awards and honors

Club career

Greek senior national team

Individual awards

Pro clubs

Greek senior national team

Notes

References

External links