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In 2014, Antetokounmpo played for the senior men's Greek national basketball team for the first time, helping Greece finish ninth overall in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup with a 5–1 record. He averaged 6.3 points and 4.3 rebounds across the six games while shooting 45.8% from the field.
In the 2016–17 season, his first with the Flyers, he was red-shirted, [11] after being ruled a "partial qualifier", [12] due to having spent his first two years of high school in Greece. [13] He debuted in the 2017–18 season , [ 14 ] averaging 5.2 points, 2.9 rebounds, 0.4 assists, 0.2 steals, and 1.1 blocks per game, in 15.1 minutes per game.
The next year, 1970, PAO was the first Greek basketball team to use a foreign player (Craig Greenwood) in a European game. The Golden Age (1970–1984) During these golden years, Panathinaikos won 10 out of 14 Greek League championships, [ 3 ] with their great leader and scorer Apostolos Kontos .
Player Drafted by NBA teams played for NBA seasons NBA games NBA playoff games; 1953: 7th #57 1953 -Lou Tsioropoulos: Boston Celtics: Boston Celtics: 3 157 11 1959: 5th #37 1960 -Nick Mantis: Saint Louis Hawks: Minneapolis Lakers, St. Louis Hawks, Chicago Zephyrs: 2 52 11 1980: 3rd #58 1980 -Kurt Rambis: New York Knicks
The sport of basketball has a long history in the country of Greece, having first come to the country in the year 1910. The first official championship of the Greek League, then called the Panhellenic Championship, was contested as regional champions playing against each other to decide a winner, starting with the 1927–28 season.
Ioannis Papapetrou (Greek: Ιωάννης Παπαπέτρου; born March 30, 1994) is a Greek professional basketball player and the vice-captain for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 206 cm (6’9’’) tall, he can play at both the small forward and power forward positions.
He then attended school and played basketball at Westtown, during the 2013–14 academic school year and basketball season, as a high school junior. [4] After his junior year of high school in the United States, he transferred to the American School in Athens, Greece , for his senior year of high school.