Georgios Tsalmpouris
| No. 34 – AEK Athens | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward / Center | ||||||||||||||
| League | Greek League Champions League | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 22, 1996 Veria, Greece | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Greek | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 235 lb (107 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| College | Iowa State (2014–2015) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2016: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| 2015–present | AEK Athens | ||||||||||||||
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Georgios Tsalmpouris (alternate spelling: Giorgos Tsalbouris[1]) (Greek: Γιώργος Τσαλμπούρης; born June 22, 1996 in Veria, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player, who plays for AEK Athens in the Greek Basket League and the Champions League. He is 7'2" (2.18 m) tall,[2][3] and he weighs 235 pounds (107 kg).[4]
Early career
Tsalmpouris played club basketball with Archelaos Pierikos in the Greek B Basket League, the 3rd level of Greek the basketball system, at the semi-professional level, in the 2013–14 season.
College career
In the 2014–15 season, Tsalmpouris played Division I college basketball for the Iowa State Cyclones team, at Iowa State University. He was the seventh 7-footer in the school's history.[5] He played in 8 games, and averaged 1.4 points, 0.8 rebounds, 0.3 assists, and 0.1 steals per game, in 4.4 minutes per game.[6] In August 2015, after playing one season with Iowa State, Tsalmpouris left the school, and returned to Greece to play professionally.[7]
Professional career
In August 2015, Tsalmpouris signed a five-year contract with the Greek Basket League club AEK Athens.[8][9] Tsalmpouris then became automatically draft eligible 2 years early, due to having played a year of professional basketball, right after a year of NCAA Division I college basketball, as well as previously playing under a start-up national basketball league, before participating in college basketball. So he was thus automatically entered into the 2016 NBA Draft. He was not drafted.
Greek national team
Tsalmpouris was a member of the junior national teams of Greece. With Greece's junior national teams, he played at the following tournaments: the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship Division B, where he won a bronze medal.[10]
References
- ^ GIORGOS TSALBOURIS Born: 22.06.1996 Citizenship: GR.
- ^ Giorgos Tsalmpouris Ht: 7-2.
- ^ GEORGIOS TSALMPOURIS PHYSICALS H: 7' 2".
- ^ Iowa State center Tsalmpouris is the big man on campus.
- ^ Iowa State center Tsalmpouris is the big man on campus.
- ^ #34 Georgios Tsalmpouris.
- ^ 7-1 center Georgios Tsalmpouris tells Iowa State he's turning pro.
- ^ Georgios Tsalmpouris signs a five-year deal with AEK Athens.
- ^ Georgios Tsalmpouris signs at AEK Athens.
- ^ Georgios TSALMPOURIS (GRE) participated in 5 FIBA / FIBA Zones events.