Fotios Lampropoulos

Fotios Lampropoulos

Lampropoulos with Iberostar Tenerife.
No. 34 – Boca Juniors
Position Power forward
League LNB
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 Vanoli Cremona
2015–2016 Arkadikos
2016 Apollon Patras
2016 Ferro Carril Oeste
2016–present Boca Juniors
Career highlights and awards

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 Boca Juniors in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (LNB). He is a 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall power forward.

Professional career

Fotis Lampropoulos playing with Apollon Patras against Aiolos Trikalon (9 January 2016).

Lampropoulos started his playing career with his home town side, Apolloniada Patras, moving up from the club's youth ranks - where he won a Greek junior league MVP title - to the first team in 2003, to play in the Greek C1 League (amateur Greek fourth division). He then transferred to the Spanish fourth division Liga EBA side, Romauto Mataró, in January 2004.

His performances with Mataró caught the eye of the Spanish 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 between Gran Canaria's second team in the Liga EBA and the first team in the Liga ACB (seven games) and ULEB Cup (eight games, 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, with whom he obtained a league promotion. In the 2011–12 season, 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 Spanish first division Liga ACB in 2012. He would nearly miss the whole 2013–14 season, after suffering an ACL injury to his left ankle, during a preseason game. He returned 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 in Italy, with the Italian League side Vanoli Cremona in August, with the club planning to keep him until September.[5]

In 2015, Lampropoulos signed an open contract with an opt-out option with Arkadikos of the Greek Basket League.[6] He left the club on January 8, 2016, and signed with the Greek club 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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