Many consider him to be the greatest basketball player to ever play on the European courts and as one of the biggest talents that lost the way to the top in the course of his career.
The “lion” of Greek Basketball was born in the U.S. on December 11, 1949 and came to Greece to live permanently in the beginning of the ‘70ies. It was the time that Olympiacos, with Gouladris as the President and Fedona Mathaiou as the head coach, had returned from A2 and was trying to build a great team that would make it to the top. Greek player transfers were not allowed at the time so the “red and whites” brought four Greek-Americans to Piraeus.
The “spider” of Greek basketball was born on May 12, 1963 in Thessaloniki and debuted with the PAOK shirt. He studied in the States, at the North Carolina State and at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, while he anchored in Piraeus in the summer of 1993…
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