Nikolaos Zisis

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Basketball player
Nikos Zisis
Νίκος Ζήσης
Nikolaos Zisis close (cropped) .jpg
Player information
birthday August 16, 1983
place of birth Thessaloniki , Greece
size 197 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
NBA draft undrafted ( 2005 )
Club information
society AEK Athens
league Basket League
Clubs as active
1999–2005 AEK Athens 2005–2007 Benetton Treviso 2007–2009 CSKA Moscow 2009–2012 Montepaschi Siena 2012–2013 CB Bilbao Berri 2013–2014 UNICS Kazan 2014–2015 Fenerbahçe Ülker 2015–2019 Brose Bamberg 2019–2020 Joventut de Badalona 2020– AEK AthensGreeceGreece
ItalyItaly
RussiaRussia
ItalyItaly
SpainSpain
RussiaRussia
TurkeyTurkey
GermanyGermany
SpainSpain
0000 GreeceGreece
National team 1
2001-2015 Greece 189
1 As of September 7, 2016

Nikolaos "Nikos" Zisis ( Greek Νικόλαος Ζήσης , born August 16, 1983 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek basketball player who is 1.97 m tall and plays the position of point guard .

Career

Nikolaos Zisis started his career in 1996 in the youth departments of AEK Athens . In 1999 he moved to the professional squad and won the Greek Cup with his team in 2001. In the following season, Zisis reached the Greek Championship with AEK , although his team was apparently hopelessly behind with 0-2 wins in the final series. In 2005 Zisis switched to the top Italian club Benetton Treviso , where he won the Italian championship in 2006 and the cup the following year. His way to Germany for the 2015/16 season took him via Russia, Spain and Turkey . He also took part in the ULEB Euroleague again with the Brose Baskets . On March 4, 2016 in the game against Žalgiris Kaunas , Zisis scored 25 points (personal best in the Euroleague) but these were not enough to prevent the 73:75 point defeat in the second round. In the following season , in the game against FC Barcelona , coached by Giorgos Bartzokas , Zisis reached 700 assists on October 28, 2016 as only the tenth player in the history of the Euroleague . In February 2017, he extended his contract, which expired at the end of the season, for another two seasons. In this way, rumors about a possible return to Greece were nipped in the bud prematurely. He left Bamberg during the 2019 summer break. He played 151 Bundesliga games and 98 European Cup games in a Bamberg shirt. He won the German championship twice and the cup competition twice with the Franks.

National team

Zisis, who was European champion with the Greek U21 national team in 2002, made his debut in the men's selection on July 17, 1998 in a friendly against Italy , which Greece won 76:66 and Zisis came up with 21 points. In 2004 he took part in the Olympic Games in Athens and only one year later he won the European basketball championship in Serbia. At the basketball world championship in 2006 Zisis reached the final with Greece and won the silver medal there. After an elbow blow by the Brazilian Anderson Varejão , as a result of which he suffered several fractures in his face, Zisis had not been able to contest the knockout round of the tournament.

successes

  • Greek Cup: 2001, 2020
  • Italian Cup: 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • German Cup : 2017 , 2019
  • Italian Supercup: 2010
  • BBL Champions Cup winner: 2015
  • European Champion: 2005
  • Vice World Champion: 2006
  • Bronze medal at the European Championship: 2009
  • Stanković Cup : 2006
  • U-20 European Championship: 2002
  • U-16 Vice European Champion: 1999
  • Bronze medal at the U-18 European Championship: 2000
  • Silver medal at the Mediterranean Championships: 2001

Awards

  • Participation in the Greek All Star Game: 2004, 2005
  • MVP of the Acropolis tournament : 2013
  • FIBA Rookie of the Year 2005
  • Participation in European championships: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015
  • Participation in world championships : 2006, 2010
  • Participation in the Olympic Games: 2008
  • Participation in the U-20 European Championship: 2002
  • Participation in the U-18 European Championship: 2000
  • Participation in the U-16 European Championship: 1999

Web links

Commons : Nikolaos Zisis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zisis' record is not enough for victory in Kaunas (Greek)
  2. ↑ Zisis until 2019 in Bamberg (Greek)
  3. ↑ https://rp-online.de/sport/basketball/brose-bamberg-trennt-sich-von-nikos-zisis_aid-39416937
  4. ↑ Jeff Taylor: CSKA Moscow swoop for Greek international Zisis FIBA.com (June 13, 2007)
personal data
SURNAME Zisis, Nikolaos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zisis, Nikos (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki