Vassilis Spanoulis

Vassilis Spanoulis

Spanoulis in action for Olympiacos in EuroLeague
No. 7 – Olympiacos
Position	Point guard / Shooting guard
League	Greek Basket League EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	(1982-08-07) 7 August 1982 (age 34) Larissa, Greece
Nationality	Greece
Listed height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	2004 / Round: 2 / Pick: 50th overall
Selected by the Dallas Mavericks
Playing career	1999–present
Career history
1999–2001	Gymnastikos S. Larissas
2001–2005	Maroussi
2005–2006	Panathinaikos
2006–2007	Houston Rockets
2007–2010	Panathinaikos
2010–present	Olympiacos
Career highlights and awards
3× EuroLeague champion (2009, 2012, 2013) FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion (2013) EuroLeague MVP (2013) 3× EuroLeague Final Four MVP (2009, 2012, 2013) FIBA Intercontinental Cup MVP (2013) 7× All-EuroLeague Team 3× All-EuroLeague First Team (2012, 2013, 2015) 4× All-EuroLeague Second Team (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014) 2× All-Europe Player of the Year (2012, 2013) Balkan Athlete of the Year (2009) Giuseppe Sciacca Award - Vatican's World Athlete of the Year (2013) 2× Acropolis Tournament MVP (2007, 2009) 7× Greek League champion (2006, 2008–2010, 2012, 2015, 2016) 4× Greek Cup champion (2006, 2008, 2009, 2011) 3× Greek League MVP (2009, 2012, 2016) 3× Greek League Finals MVP (2012, 2015, 2016) 9× All-Greek League Team: (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011–2013, 2015, 2016) 5× Greek League assists leader (2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015) Greek League Most Popular Player (2015) Greek League Best Young Player (2003) Greek League Most Improved Player (2004)
Medals Men's basketball Representing Greece FIBA World Cup 2006 Japan National Team EuroBasket 2005 Serbia & Montenegro National Team 2009 Poland National Team Mediterranean Games 2001 Tunisia Team FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship 2002 Lithuania Team FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship 2000 Croatia Team

Vassilis Spanoulis (Greek: Βασίλης Σπανούλης; born August 7, 1982) is a Greek professional basketball player for Olympiacos Piraeus of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. A 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) tall combo guard, he is nicknamed Kill Bill, V-Span, and MVP ("Most Vassilis Player"). Spanoulis was named the Balkan Athlete of the Year in 2009, the in 2012 and 2013, the Vatican's World Athlete of the Year (Giuseppe Sciacca Award) in 2013 and the EuroLeague MVP the same year. He has earned a record seven All-EuroLeague Team selections.

Spanoulis first played for Gymnastikos S. Larissas, and enjoyed a highly successful career start. His skill-set earned him a transfer to Athens and Maroussi, where he won the Greek Basket League's Best Young Player award in 2003. Following an impressive 2004–05 season, during which he helped lead Maroussi to the Greek league finals and the EuroCup quarterfinals, he moved to Panathinaikos, where he became one of European basketball's major stars.

In the 2005–06 Euroleague season, Spanoulis made his debut in impressive fashion, earning his first All-EuroLeague Team selection as a rookie in the competition. After a stint in the NBA with the Houston Rockets during the 2006–07 season, he returned to Panathinaikos and helped lead them to a EuroLeague title in 2009, being voted as the EuroLeague Final Four MVP. Spanoulis' transfer to Olympiacos, in the summer of 2010, marked a new step in his career. Within a young and rebuilding team, Spanoulis not only led a EuroLeague title run in 2012, but went on to achieve a historical repeat in 2013. In the process, he gained another two EuroLeague Final Four MVP awards, thus joining Toni Kukoč as the only players in the history of European basketball to achieve that distinction on three occasions.