Team Greece Finalizes EuroBasket Roster

The Hellas officially announced their finalized Greek national team roster on Sunday. The EuroBasket tournament is tipping off this week, with Greece kicking off Group Play in a bracket with Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, and Cyprus as part of Group C. Their first game will be against Italy on August 8.

Giannis Antetokounmpo will headline the team as the lone NBA player on the roster. The two-time MVP is coming off an All-NBA First Team season in which he averaged 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds, and 6.5 assists.

While Antetokounmpo is the only rostered player still in the NBA, the Greek team boasts a handful of former players who now play in Europe, including two of Antetokounmpo’s brothers. Here is the complete list of players who will represent Greece in EuroBasket:

• Giannis Antetokounmpo
• Kostas Antetokounmpo
• Thanasis Antetokounmpo
• Tyler Dorsey
• Panagiotis Kalaitzakis
• Dimitrios Katsivelis
• Giannoulis Larentzakis
• Dinos Mitoglou
• Kostas Papanikolaou
• Alexandros Samodurov
• Kostas Sloukas
• Vasileios Toliopoulos

Outside of the trio of brothers, Dorsey and Papanikolaou are likely the two players with whom NBA fans will be most familiar. Dorsey played 107 games over three seasons, starting 16 of them, and averaged 6.6 points on 35.1% three-point shooting. Papanikolaou played two seasons, one with the Rockets and one with the Nuggets, averaging 2.6 points and 2.3 rebounds in 15.8 minutes per night.

The 20-year-old Samodurov is another interesting name to watch after being named to the All-Star Five in FIBA’s Under-20 tournament this season. A 6’10” center, Samadurov averaged 17.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.4 blocks in the seven games Greece played.

Antetokounmpo recently began official work with the team, following delays caused by the size of his contract relative to FIBA’s insurance policy for players.

He played in the team’s exhibition game against France, which Greece lost 92-77 as Antetokounmpo scored 18 points on seven shots in just under 22 minutes. Team Greece ended the exhibition games with a record of 4-3.