Fotios Lampropoulos

Fotios Lampropoulos

Lampropoulos with Iberostar Tenerife.
No. 16 – Apollon Patras
Position Power forward
League Greek Basket League
Personal information
Born (1983-09-11) September 11, 1983
Patras, Greece
Nationality Greek
Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight 230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
NBA draft 2005 / Undrafted
Playing career 2003–present
Career history
2003 Apolloniada Patras
2004 Romauto Mataró
2004–2005 Anua Gran Canaria
2004–2005 →Fadesa Gran Canaria
2005 Tarragona
2005–2007 L'Hospitalet
2007–2008 Tenerife Rural
2008–2009 AEL Larissa
2009–2011 Iraklis
2011–2015 Iberostar Tenerife
2015–2016 Arkadikos
2016–present Apollon Patras

Fotios Lampropoulos (alternatively spelled: Fotis, Lambropoulos or Labropoulos; Greek: Φώτης Λαμπρόπουλος), born 11 September 1983, is a Greek professional basketball player who currently plays for Apollon Patras in the Greek League . He is a 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall power forward.

Professional career

Lampropoulos started his career with home town side Apolloniada Patras, moving up from the youth ranks - where he won a Greek junior league MVP title - to the first team in 2003 to play in the Greek C1 (amateur fourth division). He would transfer to Spanish fourth division Liga EBA side Unió Esportiva de Mataró|Romauto Mataró in January 2004. His performances caught the eye of first division club CB Gran Canaria who invited him to a summer league before signing him.[1] The 2004-05 season would see Lampropoulos split his time became Gran Canaria's second team in the Liga EBA and the first team in the Liga ACB (seven games) and ULEB Cup (eight cames, for an average of 6.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game)[2] before moving in April 2005 to CB Tarragona of the LEB (second division). He stayed in the LEB the next three seasons, playing the first two with CB L'Hospitalet and the last one with Tenerife CB.[3] Lampropoulos returned home to Greece in 2008, joining Greek Basket League outfit AEL Larissa. He moved to the Greek second division the next season, joining Iraklis BC with whom he obtained a promotion. In 2011-12, he started the season with Iraklis in the Greek first division before returning to Tenerife CB in February 2011.[1]

The Greek stayed with Tenerife until 2015, as the Canarians were promoted to the Liga ACB in 2012. He would nearly miss the whole 2013-14 season after suffering an ACL injury on his left ankle during a preseason game, returning in May 2014 with a double-double (11 points and 10 rebounds in less than 20 minutes).[4] When Tenerife did not keep him following the 2014-15 season, Lampropoulos started training with Italian side Vanoli Cremona in August, with the club planning to keep him until September.[5]

In 2015 Lampropoulos signed an open contract with Arkadikos of the Greek Basket League.[6] He left the club on January 8, 2016 and signed with Apollon Patras.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "El Isla de Tenerife Socas Canarias ficha al griego Fotios Lampropoulos" [Isla de Tenerife Socas Canarias signs Greek Fotios Lampropoulos]. LEBoro.es (in Spanish). 25 February 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Lampropoulos, Fotis - 2004-2005 statistics". EurocupBasketball.com. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Fotios Lampropoulos, nuevo jugador del Tenerife Rural" [Fotios Lampropoulos, Tenerife Rural's new player]. LEBoro.es (in Spanish). 21 June 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Fotios Lampropoulos, un año después" [Fotios Lampropoulos, one year later]. ACB.com (in Spanish). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "La Vanoli Basket aggrega Fotis Lampropoulos" [Fotis Lampropoulos joins Vanoli Basket]. VanoliBasket.com (in Italian). 27 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Fotis Lampropoulos signs an open contract with Arcadikos BC". Sportando.com. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Fotis Lampropoulos leaves Arcadikos to sign with Apollon Patras". Sportando.com. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2016.

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