Konstantinos "Dinos" Angelidis (

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: Κωνσταντίνος "Ντίνος" Αγγελίδης; born 5 April 1969) is an Austrian-born former Greek professional

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player of mixed

- Austrian descent. Born in

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, he played professionally in the

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, and he also represented the Greek national team at the senior level. He played as either a

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or center.

Professional career

Angelidis started his club basketball career at Sporting, in 1985. In 1990, he was acquired by

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. Over the next nine years, Angelidis played for the team that was at the time known as "The Emperor" of Greek basketball. With Aris, he won the European second-tier level

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championship in the 1992–93 season, and the European third-tier level

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championship in the 1996–97 season. On the domestic front, he won the Greek League championship in 1991, and two

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titles, in 1992 and 1998. He served as Aris'

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for part of that time. His playing career was marred by his failure to pass an anti-doping test, on 12 May 1999, prior to a game against

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

, which caused Aris have to

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that game. The following year, Angelidis transferred to PAOK, where he played just one season (1999–2000). He also played with Dafni, before retiring from playing pro club basketball in 2001.

National team career

During his playing career, Angelidis had a total of 81

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with the senior Greek national team, in which he scored a total of 645 points, for a scoring average of 8.0 points per game. He was a member of the Greek national squad that won the silver medal at the 1989 EuroBasket, which took place at

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. He also won the silver medal at the

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. Angelidis also competed with Greece at the 1991 EuroBasket, the 1992 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the

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, and the

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Personal life

Angelidis was born in

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, to a

father and an Austrian mother. He graduated from the German School of Athens.

References

External links

* http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php?title=Kora%C4%87_Cup *
Hellenic Federation Profile
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