Showing posts with label Olympiacos roster 2015-2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympiacos roster 2015-2016. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Olympiacos signed Hakim Warrick

Olympiacos signed Hakim Warrick. The 33 years old American forward graduated from Syracuse where he played four years (2001-2005) with the Syracuse Orange. He was selected by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 19th place overall of the first round of the 2005 NBA draft.
Warrick played fours years for the Memphis Grizzlies (2005-2009) and one year with the Milwaukee Bucks (2009-2010). He then played two seasons for the Chicago Bulls, moved to Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets and Charlotte Bobcats, which was the last team he played in the NBA as he was traded to the  to the Orlando Magic.
Warrick averaged 9.4 points and 4.0 rebounds in 526 NBA regular season games over eight seasons.

After NBA Warrick continued in China for the Flying Leopards, Turkey for the Torku Konyaspor, and he started this season in Australia for the Melbourne United, where he averaged 14.2 points and 6 rebounds in 23 Australian League games this season.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Shawn James parted ways with Olympiacos

Shawn James parted ways with Olympiacos. The 32 years old American center agreed terms with Olympiacos in early December in order to replace the injured Patrick Young. After having played 5 games in the Euroleague and 5 games in the Basket League Greece, averaging 3.4 points/1.6 rebounds and 4.4 points/2.6 rebounds respectively, the player asked to leave the team.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Olympiacos agreed terms with Kostas Papanikolaou

Olympiacos agreed terms with Kostas Papanikolaou. The 25 years old Greek guard returns to Greece and Olympiacos. Papanikolaou started his career in Proteas Grevenon but played in Aris and Olympiacos. With Olympiacos he won Euroleague twice, he also won one Greek Championship and was named twice Greek Basket League Best Young Player. In the 2013-2014 season he moved to Spain for Barcelona and in the next year he moved to the NBA for Houston Rockets. This season Papanikolaou started with Denver Nuggets but could not find a guaranteed contract, so he returned to Europe.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Olympiacos signed Darius Johnson Odom

Olympiacos signed Darius Johnson Odom. The 26 years old American guard parted ways with Trabzonspor and will continue the season in Greece and Euroleague with Olympiacos. Johnson-Odom was selected 55th overall in the 2012 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks, but moved to Los Angeles Lakers and played mainly for the Los Angeles D-Fenders in the NBA D-League.
In 2013 he played some games for Spartak St. Petersburg in Russia and for Sichuan Blue Whales in China. In 2014 he played some games for Springfield Armor and signed a 10 days contract with  Philadelphia 76ers but he did not play. His first full season was 2014-2015 with Pallacanestro Cantù and he started this season in Turkey with Trabzonspor. In Turkey he averaged 11.2 points and 3.5 assists and in Eurocup he averaged 7.6 points. Odom played two games against Aris for Eurocup, scoring 11 points in the home win and 13 points in the road defeat.



Sunday, December 6, 2015

Olympiacos agreed terms with Shawn James

It is official Olympiacos agreed terms with Shawn James. The Greek team paid the 20.000 euros fee for the release of James from Bilbao and has added injury terms on his new contract. James will replace Patrick Young and has penned a contract until the end of the season.
The 32 years old American center graduated from Northeastern University with the 9th in the all time ranking for blocks and five triple doubles in the NCAA. He went undrafted in the NBA Draft 2008 and then started his professional career in Israel for Bnei Hasharon. After three years he moved the Israeli Champions Maccabi Tel Aviv and played in Euroleague. In the summer of 2014 he moved to Italy for Emporio Armani Milano and after one year he moved to Spain for Bilbao Basket where he started this season.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Vassilis Kavvadas on loan to Arkadikos

Vassilis Kavvadas manager announced that the player will play on loan to Arkadikos until the end of the season. Kavvadas was signed by Olympiacos in 2013 with a 5 years contract and in the previous season he averaged 2.5 points and 1.2 rebounds in 5.2 minutes in 31 games.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Olympiacos BC roster 2015-2016

Olympiacos BC roster 2015-2016

Patrick Young
Othello Hunter
Giannis Papapetrou
Vasilis Spanoulis
DJ Strawberry
Michalis Tsairelis
Vasilis Toliopoulos
Nikola Milutinov
Vasilis Mouratos
Andreas Christodoulou
Giorgos Printezis
Dimitris Agravanis
Vangelis Mantzaris
Vasilis Kavvadas
Daniel Hackett
Matt Lojeski
Giannis Athinaiou

Head Coach: Giannis Sfairopoulos

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Olympiacos signed Patric Young

Olympiacos signed Patric Young. The 23 years old American forward penned a two years contract with the Greek champions. Young played four years for Florida Gators and then went undrafted in the NBA 2014 Draft. He joined New Orleans Pelicans for the 2014 NBA Summer League, signed a contract but released without having played for the team. Young started his professional career in Turkey for the Galatasaray where he averaged 10.5 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Olympiacos signed Daniel Hackett

Olympiacos signed Daniel Hackett. The 27 years old Italian American guard penned a two years contract with the Greek Champions. Hackett will play for the first time away from Italy and rejected an offer from the New York Knicks to participate in the summer camp. He has played for Benetton Treviso (2009-2010), Scavolini Pesaro (2010-2012), Montepaschi Siena (2012-2013), and Emporio Armani Milano (2013-2015). With Armani Milano has beat both Panathinaikos and Olympiacos for Euroleague

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Olympiacos signed Vassilis Toliopoulos

Olympiacos signed Vassilis Toliopoulos. The 19 years old Greek play maker was close to Olympiacos two years ago, but did not convince Giorgos Bartzokas and he moved from Panionios to Ikaros Chalkidas. After Ikaros relegated to A2 division the young player moved to Kolossos Rodou where he had a good season. Toliopoulos had a good FIBA U19 World Championship tournament with Greece and the Greek champions offered him a contract. Coach Sferopoulos will keep the player as a member of the current roster and will not offer him on loan.

Olympiacos signed Giannis Athinaiou

Olympiacos signed Giannis Athinaiou. The Greek player penned a three year contract with the Greek champions. Athinaiou returned to Basket League Greece in the previous season for AEK after playing in Italy for Milano and Turkey for Olin Edirne.

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Olympiacos signed DJ Strawberry

Olympiacos signed Darryl Eugene "D. J." Strawberry Jr. This was the first transfer for the Greek Champions for the season 2015-2016. The 30 years old American guard was no 59 pick in the second round of 2007 NBA Draft. In the previous season Strawberry won the Turkish Championship with  Pınar Karşıyaka. Besides NBA and Turkey he had played in Israel, Croatia, Puerto Rico and France.