1. Nikolaos "Nikos" Zisis is a Greek basketball executive and former professional basketball player.
32 Facts About Nikos Zisis
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Nikos Zisis was inducted into the Greek Basket League Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Nikos Zisis is currently the general manager of the senior Greek men's national basketball team.
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Nikos Zisis won nine national league championships, in various European domestic leagues.
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Nikos Zisis won a Greek League title, four Italian League titles, two Russian League titles, and two German League titles.
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Nikos Zisis won two Greek Cups, four Italian Cups, one Russian Cup, and two German Cups.
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Nikos Zisis won five European national domestic super cup titles.
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Nikos Zisis started his basketball playing career in 1996, playing with the junior teams of HAN Thessaloniki.
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In 1999 in Jerusalem, Nikos Zisis won the world championship of High school basketball.
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At the age of 17, Nikos Zisis moved to Athens and to the Greek League team AEK, where he began his professional basketball career.
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Nikos Zisis won the Greek League Best Young Player award in 2002.
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Nikos Zisis then left Italy and moved to Moscow, Russia.
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Nikos Zisis played in the 2009 EuroLeague Final with CSKA.
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In 2012, Nikos Zisis signed a 2-year contract, with the second year being an optional year, with the Spanish League club Bilbao.
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On July 16,2015, Nikos Zisis signed a two-year contract with the German Basketball Bundesliga club Brose Bamberg.
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On July 15,2019, Nikos Zisis signed a two-year deal with the Spanish Liga ACB club Joventut Badalona.
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In January 2020, Nikos Zisis left the Spanish club Joventut Badalona, and signed with his former club AEK Athens, of the FIBA Champions League.
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Nikos Zisis announced his retirement from playing professional club basketball in June 2021.
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Nikos Zisis won the silver medal with Greece's under-18 junior national team, at the 2000 Albert Schweitzer Under-18 World Tournament.
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Nikos Zisis won the bronze medal at the 2000 FIBA Under-18 European Championship.
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Nikos Zisis played with Greece's men's under-26 national selection at the 2001 Tunis Mediterranean Games.
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Nikos Zisis was Greece's leading scorer during the tournament, averaging 10.6 points per game.
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Nikos Zisis suffered a severe facial injury that forced him to sit out for the remaining entirety of the 2006 World Championship, as the injury required surgery.
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At the 2007 EuroBasket, Nikos Zisis was one of the two key Greek players, along with Theo Papaloukas, that led Greece's national team to the biggest comeback in the history of the EuroBasket, against the Slovenian national basketball team.
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Nikos Zisis competed with Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where Greece finished in 5th place in the world, and at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where Greece finished in 5th place in the world.
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Nikos Zisis played at the following tournaments: the 2009 EuroBasket, where he won a bronze medal, the 2010 FIBA World Championship, the 2011 EuroBasket, the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 2013 EuroBasket, the 2014 FIBA World Cup, and the 2015 EuroBasket.
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Nikos Zisis finished his national team career with Greece, having won a total of ten medals at all levels, eight of which came in FIBA competitions.
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In October 2021, Nikos Zisis began a career working as a basketball executive, when he became the general manager of the senior Greek men's national basketball team.
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At 1.97 m tall, Nikos Zisis played mainly at the point guard and shooting guard positions, while playing sometimes at the small forward position.
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Nikos Zisis is very close friends with fellow former Greek men's national basketball team players Vassilis Spanoulis, Ioannis Bourousis, and Panos Vasilopoulos.
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Nikos Zisis is friends with former Italian national basketball team player Andrea Bargnani.
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Nikos Zisis married Fani Skoufi in 2010, with Vassilis Spanoulis being his best man.