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Giannis Bourousis (Greek: Γιάννης Μπουρούσης; born November 17, 1983) is a former Greek professional basketball player who last played for ASK Karditsa of the Greek A2 Basket League. He is a 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)[1][2][3] 270 lb (122 kg) tall center. A two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, Bourousis has been compared to FIBA Hall of Fame center Vlade Divac by San Antonio Spurs' head coach Gregg Popovich.[4]

Giannis Bourousis

Bourousis with Greece in 2017
Personal information
Born	(1983-11-17) November 17, 1983 (age 38) Karditsa, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Listed height	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
Listed weight	270 lb (122 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	2005 / Undrafted
Playing career	2001–2022
Position	Center
Career history
2001–2006	AEK Athens
2006	FC Barcelona
2006–2011	Olympiacos
2011–2013	Olimpia Milano
2013–2015	Real Madrid
2015–2016	Saski Baskonia
2016–2017	Panathinaikos
2017–2019	Zhejiang Lions
2019–2020	Herbalife Gran Canaria
2020–2021	Peristeri
2021–2022	ASK Karditsa
Career highlights and awards
EuroLeague champion (2015) 2× All-EuroLeague First Team (2009, 2016) EuroLeague Top Rebounder (2016) Spanish League champion (2015) 2× Spanish Cup winner (2014, 2015) 2× Spanish Supercup winner (2013, 2014) Spanish League MVP (2016) All-Spanish League First Team (2016) 2× Greek League champion (2002, 2017) 3× Greek Cup winner (2010, 2011, 2017) 3× Greek League Best Five (2008, 2009, 2011) Greek League Second Best Five (2017) Greek League Top Rebounder (2007) Greek All-Star MVP (2009) Greek 2nd Division champion (2022)
Medals Men's basketball Representing  Greece EuroBasket 2005 Serbia & Montenegro 2009 Poland European U-20 Championship 2002 Lithuania Under-20

Bourousis was on the Greece men's national basketball team that won the gold medal at EuroBasket 2005 in Serbia, and played an instrumental role as Greece won the bronze medal at EuroBasket 2009. He was also a member of the Greece men's national teams that finished fourth at EuroBasket 2007, and fifth in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Early years

Bourousis originally began his athletic career training to be a professional swimmer, but he grew too tall for the sport, and so he took up playing basketball, at the age of 18. He began playing basketball as a member of the youth clubs of G.S. Karditsas.

Professional career

Bourousis began his professional career in the year 2001, with AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League. In 2006, he transferred to FC Barcelona of the Spanish ACB League. Later that same year, he joined the Greek EuroLeague club Olympiacos.

In 2009, he was offered a 3-year $12 million contract[5] by the NBA club the San Antonio Spurs.[6] However, he turned down San Antonio's offer, and instead signed a 3-year contract extension with Olympiacos worth €5.1 million euros net income.[7][8] The contract contained a €1 million buyout amount, which could only be used to sign with an NBA team.[9] After 5 years with Olympiacos, the club decided to terminate his contract.

In the summer of 2011, just weeks before signing with Olimpia Milano, Bourousis was involved in a doping-related media controversy in Greece, after an unrelated football match-fixing probe of his (then future) father-in-law, Makis Psomiadis.[10][11] However, Bourousis was quickly cleared of any suspected wrongdoing, after he submitted to drug testing for FIBA protocols, which are overseen by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in order to be cleared to play with Greece men's national basketball team at FIBA EuroBasket 2011.[12][13]

On July 6, 2011, Bourousis then agreed to a two-year contract with the Italian A League club Olimpia Milano.[14] In July 2013, Bourousis signed a contract with the Spanish League club Real Madrid.[15][16] With Real Madrid, Bourousis won the Spanish Supercup in 2013, and the Spanish King's Cup 2014. In the summer of 2014, Real Madrid picked up their team option to keep him in the club for one more season.[17]

In the 2014–15 season, Bourousis won the EuroLeague 2014–15 season championship, after his team, Real Madrid, defeated his former team, Olympiacos, by a score of 78–59 at the 2015 EuroLeague Final Four.[18] Real Madrid also eventually finished the season winning the 2014–15 Spanish League championship, after a 3–0 series score in the ACB Finals against Barcelona. With that trophy, they won the triple crown.[19]

In September 2015, Bourousis signed a contract with the Spanish team Saski Baskonia.[20] On December 30, 2015, he was named Spanish League Player of the Month, after being MVP of the week three times in the first half of the 2015–16 ACB season.[21] He repeated his win again as the Spanish League's Player of the Month in January 2016, after averaging 18.5 points per game and 7 rebounds per game, including 24 points scored in the win against Real Madrid.[22] On May 23, 2016, he was named the Spanish League's MVP of the 2015–16 season, after averaging 12.9 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game, 2.2 assists per game, and 0.9 steals per game.[23]

On July 12, 2016, Bourousis signed a two-year contract with Panathinaikos.[24] On July 4, 2017, Panathinaikos announced the termination of Bourousis' contract.[25]

On July 10, 2017, Bourousis signed with the Zhejiang Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).[26]

Bourousis spent the 2020–21 season with Peristeri. He averaged 6.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game. On September 28, 2021, Bourousis signed with ASK Karditsa of the Greek A2 Basket League.[27]

National team career

Greek junior national team

Bourousis was a member of the junior Greece national basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2002 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship in Lithuania.

Greek senior national team

Bourousis was on the Greece men's national basketball team that won the gold medal at the EuroBasket 2005 in Serbia, and played an instrumental role as Greece won the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2009. He was also a member of the Greece men's national teams that finished fourth in the EuroBasket 2007, and fifth in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

During an international friendly game between the national teams of Greece and Serbia, during the 2010 Acropolis Tournament, the Serbian player, Nenad Krstić, hit Bourousis on the head with a chair. "I thought he was a fan attacking me", Krstić declared the next day. Bourousis first pressed charges against Krstić and decided to sue, but he quickly changed his mind and dropped the charges and the lawsuit.

Bourousis was also a member of the Greece men's national teams that competed at the: 2010 FIBA World Championship, the EuroBasket 2011, the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the EuroBasket 2013, the 2014 FIBA World Cup, the EuroBasket 2015, the 2016 Turin FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the EuroBasket 2017, and the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers.

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

†	Denotes seasons in which Bourousis won the EuroLeague

EuroLeague

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2002–03	AEK Athens	3	0	6.0	.429	.000	1.000	2.0	.0	.0	.0	2.7	.0
2003–04		12	0	7.9	.500	.000	.429	2.2	.3	.3	.3	1.8	2.2
2004–05		18	0	11.0	.510	.167	.500	3.7	.3	.4	.4	3.4	4.6
2005–06		11	8	23.3	.438	.333	.833	7.2	.3	.5	.5	8.5	9.5
2006–07	Olympiacos	19	13	16.0	.678	.409	.727	5.7	.8	1.1	.7	8.6	12.7
2007–08		21	10	19.4	.500	.432	.769	5.2	.5	.5	1.2	5.8	9.0
2008–09		22	7	21.3	.591	.259	.625	7.4	.7	.7	.5	12.5	16.1
2009–10		17	2	16.4	.531	.471	.765	4.8	.7	.9	.6	8.8	10.9
2010–11		18	11	17.5	.530	.367	.678	6.6	.7	.6	1.3	10.7	14.2
2011–12	Milano	15	14	22.4	.466	.176	.688	6.4	.5	.7	.7	9.0	10.6
2012–13		9	8	24.1	.573	.385	.745	8.3	1.1	.7	.7	14.0	18.9
2013–14	Real Madrid	29	29	21.0	.524	.353	.817	5.9	.9	.4	.8	8.3	12.1
2014–15†		28	10	11.8	.505	.200	.727	3.3	.9	.5	.4	5.0	6.8
2015–16	Baskonia	29	0	25.1	.502	.383	.811	8.7	2.2	.8	.8	14.5	21.1
2016–17	Panathinaikos	33	7	18.2	.399	.291	.788	4.8	1.0	.5	.5	7.8	10.1
Career		284	119	18.2	.513	.345	.744	5.6	.9	.6	.7	8.5	11.5

Domestic leagues

Season	Team	League	GP	MPG	2P%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2001–02	AEK Athens	GBL	3	1.7	.667	--	.667	1.3	.0	.0	.0	2.0
2002–03			8	4.3	.429	--	--	1.1	.1	.0	.0	.8
2003–04			20	12.1	.714	--	.682	4.2	.2	.5	.1	5.3
2004–05			24	11.3	.580	.333	.649	3.9	.4	.2	.3	4.7
2005–06			25	25.5	.558	.321	.765	8.4	.6	1.3	1.0	10.5
	FC Barcelona	ACB	3	3.7	.333	--	--	1.0	.3	.3	.0	.7
2006–07	Olympiacos	GBL	24	18.3	.610	.357	.775	7.2	.8	.7	1.1	9.8
2007–08			25	19.9	.660	.405	.745	7.5	1.2	.6	1.2	9.0
2008–09			32	20.9	.617	.439	.742	7.5	.9	.7	.9	11.9
2009–10			26	17.9	.560	.200	.743	5.3	1.1	.8	.7	9.7
2010–11			30	20.6	.636	.333	.817	6.6	1.2	1.0	1.1	11.7
2011–12	Milano	LBA	43	19.0	.622	.347	.755	5.8	1.0	.5	.7	11.6
2012–13			34	20.5	.631	.322	.769	6.8	1.1	.7	.6	11.5
2013–14	Real Madrid	ACB	40	18.7	.591	.236	.831	4.6	.7	.7	.5	6.9
2014–15			31	14.6	.544	.313	.733	3.7	.9	.4	.4	5.2
2015–16	Baskonia	ACB	32	22.8	.572	.370	.881	7.1	2.2	.9	.2	12.9
2016–17	Panathinaikos	GBL	35	19.3	.592	.173	.741	5.6	1.6	.6	.6	10.7

Awards and accomplishments

Greece men's national team

Under-20

• 2002 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship:  Gold

Senior

• 2005 EuroBasket:  Gold
• 2009 EuroBasket:  Bronze

Club career

AEK Athens

• Greek League Champion: (2002)

Olympiacos

• 2× Greek Cup Winner: (2010, 2011)

Real Madrid

• EuroLeague Champion (2015)
• Spanish League Champion: (2015)
• 2× Spanish Cup Winner: (2014, 2015)
• 2× Spanish Supercup Winner: (2013, 2014)
• Triple Crown: Champion (2015)

Panathinaikos

• Greek League Champion: (2017)
• Greek Cup Winner: (2017)

ASK Karditsas

• Greek 2nd Division Champion: (2022)

Individual

• 2× All-EuroLeague First Team: (2009, 2016)
• EuroLeague MVP of the Month: (March 2016)
• 8× EuroLeague MVP of the Round
• Spanish League MVP: (2016)
• All-Spanish League Team: (2016)
• 2× Spanish League Player of the Month: (December 2015, January 2016)
• 6× Greek League All-Star: (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Greek All-Star Game MVP: (2009)
• 3× Greek League Best Five: (2008, 2009, 2011)

References

External links

• Ioannis Bourousis at acb.com (in Spanish)
• Ioannis Bourousis at cbadata.com (in Chinese)
• Ioannis Bourousis at draftexpress.com
• Ioannis Bourousis at esake.gr (in Greek)
• Ioannis Bourousis at eurobasket.com
• Ioannis Bourousis at euroleague.net
• Ioannis Bourousis at fiba.com
• Ioannis Bourousis at legabasket.it (in Italian)
• Ioannis Bourousis at basket.gr (in Greek)

На других языках

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[de] Ioannis Bourousis

Ioannis Bourousis (griechisch Ιωάννης Μπουρούσης; * 17. November 1983 in Karditsa, Griechenland) ist ein griechischer Basketballspieler.

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- [en] Ioannis Bourousis

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[es] Ioannis Bourousis

Ioannis Bourousis (en griego: Γιάννης Μπουρούσης, Karditsa, Grecia, 17 de noviembre de 1983) es un exjugador de baloncesto que disputó veinte temporadas en el baloncesto profesional. Con 2,15 metros de altura,[1][2] jugaba en la posición de pívot.

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[ru] Бурусис, Яннис

Яннис Бурусис (греч. Γιάννης Μπουρούσης; родился 17 ноября 1983 года в Кардице, Греция) — греческий профессиональный баскетболист, играющий на позиции центрового. Выступает за баскетбольный клуб «Перистери».

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