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...

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...

He won the Cup Winners’ Cup with PAOK in the Geneva Final beating Zaragoza 76-72 in 1991, while next season he also won his first Greek Championship. There were four more to come with the Olympiacos shirt (1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97). He made the Tel Aviv Final Four with the “reds” in 1994 and the one in Zaragoza in 1995, while he had also played in the Athens Final Four with PAOK in 1993. He golden season had been that of 1996-97, when Olympiacos won the Euroleague in Rome and the Greek double, while equally important moment in his career had been the golden medal in the Eurobasket of Athens in 1987 and the silver medal in the Zagreb Eurobasket in 1989.

The Piraeus mayor (2006-2010) has played 243 games with the National Greek Men’s team having scored 2389 points (9,83 av.). His last game with the National Selection was in third place of final of the World Championship in Athens in 1998 playing against the U.S. team (9/8/1998) where the Greek team lost 84-61 and “Pannie” had scored four points.

He has played 190 Greek League games with Olympiacos (sixth in the list of reference) having scored 1632 points (8,6 av.) and grabbed 1317 rebounds (6,9 av.). In Europe, he has played 105 games with the Olympiacos shirt (fourth in the list of reference) having scored 885 points (8,4 av.) and grabbed 613 rebounds (5,8 av.).