Thanasis Antetokounmpo

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Basketball player
Thanasis Antetokounmpo
Θανάσης Αντετοκούνμπο
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Player information
Full name Athanasios Rotimi Antetokounmpo
birthday 18th July 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Athens , Greece
size 201 cm
position Small forward
NBA draft 2014 , 51st Pick, New York Knicks
Club information
society Milwaukee Bucks
league NBA
Jersey number 43
Clubs as active
2012–2013 Filathlitikos Zografos 2013–2014 Delaware 87ers 2014–2015 Westchester Knicks 2015 New York Knicks 2015–2016 Westchester Knicks 2016 New York Knicks 2016–2017 MoraBanc Andorra 2017–2019 Panathinaikos Athens 2019– Milwaukee BucksGreeceGreece
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Athanasios Rotimi "Thanasis" Antetokounmpo ( Greek Αθανάσιος "Θανάσης" Αντετοκούνμπο, born July 18, 1992 in Athens ) is a Greek basketball player who plays on the position of the small forward. His two younger brothers Giannis and Kostas are also professional basketball players.

Career

At club level

Thanasis Antetokounmpo was born in 1992 in Athens, the second of five children of the Antetokounmpo family. There he grew up with three of his siblings in the Sepolia district of Athens . The Antetokounmpo couple had immigrated from Nigeria to Greece in the early 1990s , while their only son, Francis, who had been born until then, had stayed with his grandparents in Lagos . At the age of 14, Thanasis and his two years younger brother Giannis were discovered and approached by Spyros Veliniatis romping around on the street. Veliniatis, basketball trainer in the youth department of Filathlitikos OA in Zografos , a suburb of Athens, initially accommodated the brothers at the local association AO Triton and then in the academies of Filathlitikos after those responsible for the association had campaigned for a new home for the Antetokounmpo family in To organize Zografos so that they could take part in the training regularly and free of charge. The younger siblings Kostas and Alexis also started playing basketball at Filathlitikos.

For the 2012/13 season, the club, in whose first team Thanasis played and his brother had already made his debut, rose to the second Greek league for the first time . The team only narrowly missed promotion to the first-class Basket League on the last day of the season. Just like his brother, Thanasis applied for the NBA draft in the summer of 2013 , but, unlike his brother, withdrew his registration. However, Thanasis came under the Development League Draft 2013 on November 1 with the Delaware 87ers . With an average of 12 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.3 blocks, Thanasis showed good performances in the D-League, with nominations for the D-League Slam Dunk Contest and the D-League Defense Third Team were honored. Thanasis eventually applied again for the NBA draft.

With the 51st pick in the 2014 NBA draft , Antetokounmpo was selected by the New York Knicks . He followed his brother Giannis, who had a good rookie season at the Milwaukee Bucks , into the NBA . For the Knicks, Thanasis had first played in the NBA Summer League and then on their farm team at the Westchester Knicks before joining the main team for the 2015/16 season . Shortly before the start of the regular season, however, he was released from the squad again. Antetokounmpo turned down offers from Europe and decided to play in the D-League again.

On January 29, 2016, Antetokounmpo signed again with the New York Knicks, who had offered him a 10-day contract. At the time, New Yorkers were in a crisis that culminated in the dismissal of Head Coach Derek Fisher . Antetokounmpos contract was then not extended, he returned to the Westchester Knicks and played his season there to the end.

In summer 2016 Antetokounmpo returned to Europe and signed a one-year contract with MoraBanc Andorra in the Spanish ACB league . After he had fulfilled this, he was committed for two years by the Greek series champion Panathinaikos . With this he won the Greek championship in both seasons and in 2019 also the club cup .

On July 16, 2019, Antetokounmpo signed a contract with the Milwaukee Bucks and returned to the NBA .

National team

In the summer of 2016 coach called Fotis Katsikaris Antetokounmpo in the A squad team . He made his debut in the jersey of the Greek national team, alongside his brother Giannis Antetokounmpo , on June 23, 2016 in a friendly against the Turkish national team that the Greeks won with 78:52 points. He was nominated for the 2017 European Championship .

Antetokounmpo played with the Greek national team at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 , where he scored 6 points per game in 5 games. Greece eliminated in the second round and finished the tournament in 11th place.

Since 2016, Antetokounmpo has played 39 international matches with the Greek national team. He has a total of 282 points, which is an average of 5.82 points per game.

Private

Although Thanasis was born in Greece to Nigerian parents, he does not have Nigerian nationality. The until then de facto stateless Thanasis and his brothers born in Greece were granted Greek citizenship on May 9, 2013.

successes

Awards

  • MVP of the Greek All-Star Games: 2018, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THANASIS ANTETOKOUNMPO Born: 7/18/92
  2. ↑ Athanasios ANTETOKOUNMPO Date of Birth 18 Jul 1992 Nationality: GRE
  3. ^ The story of the Antetokounmpo family before the draft. www.sport24.gr, June 30, 2017, accessed January 8, 2017 (Greek).
  4. ↑ Eighteen early-entry candidates withdraw from 2013 Draft
  5. ↑ 2013 NBA Development League Draft ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nba.com
  6. ↑ 2014 NBA Draft Results: Knicks select Thanasis Antetokounmpo with 51st pick
  7. ↑ Knicks oblige Thanasis Antetokounmpo
  8. ↑ Antetokounmpo signs in Andorra (Greek)
  9. ↑ Official release: Milwaukee Bucks sign Thanasis Antetokounmpo. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Giannis and Thanasis in action (Greek) ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.superbasket.gr
  11. ↑ Final standings of the FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup 2019. Accessed November 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Super User: Σελίδα Αθλητή. Retrieved November 27, 2019 (el-gr).
  13. ↑ Γίνονται Έλληνες οι Αντετοκούμπο
personal data
SURNAME Antetokounmpo, Thanasis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antetokounmpo, Athanasios Rotimi (full name); Αντετοκούνμπο, Θανάσης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens , Greece