Team Greece Announces Final 12-Man Squad for EuroBasket Tip-Off
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Athens, Greece — The Hellenic Basketball Federation on Sunday released the 12 players who will represent Greece at the EuroBasket tournament, which begins this week.
Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo anchors the group as the only active NBA player on the roster. Antetokounmpo is coming off a First Team All-NBA season in which he averaged 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists.
Complete roster
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Kostas Antetokounmpo
- Thanasis Antetokounmpo
- Tyler Dorsey
- Panagiotis Kalaitzakis
- Dimitrios Katsivelis
- Giannoulis Larentzakis
- Dinos Mitoglou
- Kostas Papanikolaou
- Alexandros Samodurov
- Kostas Sloukas
- Vasileios Toliopoulos
The squad features several former NBA players. Dorsey appeared in 107 league games over three seasons, averaging 6.6 points while shooting 35.1 percent from three-point range. Papanikolaou spent two NBA campaigns, posting 2.6 points and 2.3 rebounds in 15.8 minutes per night.
Rising prospect Alexandros Samodurov, 20, turned heads at this summer’s FIBA Under-20 event, earning All-Star Five honors after producing 17.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.4 blocks across seven games. The 6’10” center will make his senior national-team debut.
Antetokounmpo joined training camp late while a new insurance arrangement was finalized to cover his NBA contract. He logged 18 points on seven field-goal attempts in 22 minutes during Greece’s recent 92-77 exhibition loss to France. The team concluded its warm-up slate with a 4-3 record.
Greece opens EuroBasket Group C play against Italy on August 8. The pool also includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain and Cyprus.
Source: Hoops Rumors
