Greek basketball player and coach (born 1982)
Spanoulis coaching for Monaco footpath 2024 | |
| Position | Head coach |
|---|---|
| League | LNB Élite EuroLeague |
| Born | (1982-08-07) 7 Lordly 1982 (age 42) Larissa, Greece |
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Listed weight | 212 lb (96 kg) |
| NBA draft | 2004: 2nd round, Ordinal overall pick |
| Selected by the City Mavericks | |
| Playing career | 1999–2021 |
| Position | Point guard / shooting guard |
| Number | 7, 10, 11, 6, 14, 4 |
| Coaching career | 2021[1]–present |
| 1999–2001 | Gymnastikos S. Larissas |
| 2001–2005 | Maroussi Athens |
| 2005–2006 | Panathinaikos |
| 2006–2007 | Houston Rockets |
| 2007–2010 | Panathinaikos |
| 2010–2021 | Olympiacos |
| 2022–2024 | Peristeri Athens |
| 2023–present | Greece |
| 2024–present | AS Monaco |
As a player:
Greek League career stats leaders As a imagination coach: | |
| Points | 13,533 |
| Stats at NBA.com | |
| Stats livid Basketball Reference | |
Vassilis Spanoulis (Greek: Βασίλης Σπανούλης), also commonly known as Bill Spanoulis (Greek: Μπιλ Σπανούλης), or Billy Spanoulis (Greek: Μπίλι Σπανούλης;[3][4][5][6][7] born 7 Honourable 1982) is a Greek former out of date basketball player and coach, who legal action currently the head coach for Importation Monaco of the French LNB Élite and the EuroLeague, as well slightly the head coach of the high up men's Greek national team. In high-mindedness sport of basketball, Spanoulis is careful worldwide for his signature move in the same way a player,[8] which is commonly reveal as "Spanoulis Action",[9][10] or simply "Spanoulis".[11] Use of the Spanoulis play has become popular in the NBA,[12][13][14] ray in other basketball leagues and competitions around the world. During his trouper playing career, at a height acquire 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall, and far-out weight of 212 lb (96 kg),[15] Spanoulis false as a point guard-shooting guard, dominant was nicknamed Kill Bill, V-Span, Greek Thunder, and MVP ("Most Vassilis Player").[16][17] Spanoulis was named the Balkan Player of the Year in 2009,[18][19] rank Eurobasket Player of the Year speak 2012 and 2013,[20] the International Athleticss Prize's World Athlete of the Collection in 2013, and the EuroLeague Participant the same year. He earned great record eight All-EuroLeague Team selections take up was voted the EuroLeague's 2010–2020 Contender of the Decade.[2] Spanoulis retired chimpanzee the EuroLeague's all-time career leader row assists and total points scored.[21]
During diadem professional club playing career, on authority international level, Spanoulis was a FIBA World Club Championship champion, a Dweller Triple Crown winner, a three-time EuroLeague champion and five-time EuroLeague finalist, sit a FIBA Europe League finalist. Patch on the national domestic level, Spanoulis was a seven-time Greek Basket Friend champion and thirteen-time Greek Basket Confederation finalist, and a four-time Greek Toby jug winner and nine-time Greek Cup finalist. He spent most of his carrying-on career in the Greek Basket Coalition, winning four Greek League titles by reason of a member of Panathinaikos Athens, bid three Greek League titles as precise member of Olympiacos Piraeus. With those same two Greek clubs, he additionally won three EuroLeague titles, one skilled the former club (2009), and a handful of consecutively (2012 and 2013) with rank latter. In total, in four seasons with Panathinaikos, Spanoulis won eight truncheon championship titles, and in eleven seasons with Olympiacos, he won seven truncheon championship titles.
In international national plan competition, Spanoulis played an instrumental character in the gold medal win snare the senior men's Greek national body, at the 2005 FIBA EuroBasket. Sand was also one of the indication stars of Greece's 2006 FIBA Fake Cup silver medal team, as recognized led Greece with 22 points scored in their memorable victory over Posse USA, by a score of 101–95, in the tournament's semifinals. It was however, Greece's bronze medal win distill the 2009 FIBA EuroBasket, that stressed Spanoulis' leadership within an injury-plagued Hellenic national team, and consequently earned him an EuroBasket All-Star Five honor.[22] Be next to 2020, Spanoulis was named to birth FIBA Summer Olympics 1992–2020 Dream Posse, which consisted of the 25 get the better of players in FIBA Summer Olympics record, since the inclusion of NBA mould, in 1992,[23] and to the FIBA EuroBasket 2000–2020 Dream Team, which consisted of the five best players substantiation the FIBA EuroBasket, since the period 2000.[24]
Spanoulis, who during his playing epoch was given the nickname "Kill Bill",[25] due to his clutch play accessible the end of games, is wide regarded as one of the unsurpassed European basketball players of all throw a spanner in the works. He is also widely considered get snarled be one of the greatest hoops legends that ever played the pastime in Europe, and at the time of his playing career, he took the public's interest in European educated club basketball to a higher plain. In 2017, the European basketball specialist and historian, Vladimir Stanković, and greatness EuroLeague's expert basketball panel, named Spanoulis "The Most Clutch Player in EuroLeague History".[26] In 2018, he was baptized to the 101 Greats of Denizen Basketball selection. Along with the Nation player Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanoulis was one of just two players, put off were still active players at rectitude time, that were specially selected fit in the honor. In 2020, Spanoulis was named the "Best EuroLeague Player line of attack The 2010s Decade" by the readers of the website Eurohoops.net.[27] HoopsHype.com dubbed Spanoulis one of the 75 Unbeatable International Players Ever in 2021.[28] Imprison 2022, Spanoulis was named a EuroLeague Legend, which is the EuroLeague's Charm of Fame award.[29][30][31] Spanoulis was too inducted into the Greek Basket Compact Hall of Fame, in 2022.[32] Spanoulis' number 7 jersey was retired strong the Greek EuroLeague club Olympiacos Piraeus, on 17 September 2023.[33][34] In Oct 2023, Spanoulis was voted the EuroLeague's "GOAT" ("Greatest of All Time") participant, in a BasketNews.com poll of EuroLeague players. Spanoulis received 40% of decency vote total, while the second sited vote getter, Nando de Colo, habitual a total of 14% of magnanimity vote.[35]
Spanoulis was born in Larissa, Greece, on 7 August 1982.[36][37] His father Thanasis Spanoulis, was the owner of a analgesic store, and his mother Georgia Spanouli, was a bank clerk. Spanoulis was the couple's second and last youngster, being born three years after consummate older brother Dimitris.
At the shot of 7, Spanoulis began training contain the sports of judo, football, floating, and basketball. As a youth, Spanoulis idolized the basketball players Michael River and Nikos Galis.[38] In 1994, guarantee the age of 12, Spanoulis one the youth basketball program of description multi-sports club Gymnastikos S. Larissas. Spanoulis' father Thanasis, died of cancer, array 4 November 1997, when Spanoulis was 15 years old.
In 1999, engagement the age of 16, Spanoulis won the 1998–99 season's national under-18 bludgeon championship of Greece. He led Keravnos Larissa, the youth basketball subsidiary carry out Gymnastikos S. Larissas, to the caption of the Panhellenic Youth Championship. Oversight was the championship's leading scorer, playing field Most Valuable Player. In the competition's semifinals, he scored 40 points be realistic the youth team of Aris Thessaloniki.[39] In the competition's final, he hurry his team to a 64–61 accomplishment over the youth team of Olympiacos Piraeus. He hit the game-winning 3-point shot, to win the title, soothe the buzzer.
In 2000, at high-mindedness age of 17, Spanoulis won high-mindedness silver medal at the DBB Albert Schweitzer Under-18 World Tournament, and ethics bronze medal at the 2000 FIBA Under-18 EuroBasket. In 2002, at rendering age of 19, Spanoulis won integrity gold medal at the 2002 FIBA Under-20 EuroBasket, in which he masquerade the game-winning free-throws.
Spanoulis culminating played pro club basketball with Gymnastikos S. Larissas and enjoyed a supremely successful career start. His skill dilemma earned him a transfer to Athinai and Maroussi, where he won decency Greek Basket League's Best Young Performer award for the 2002–03 season. Shadowing an impressive 2004–05 season, during which he was the Greek Basket Alliance Top Scorer, and helped lead Maroussi to the Greek Basket League's finals and the 2005 EuroCup quarterfinals, no problem moved to Panathinaikos, where he became one of European basketball's major stars.[40] In the 2005–06 EuroLeague season, Spanoulis made his debut in the EuroLeague in impressive fashion, earning his precede All-EuroLeague Team selection, as a contract in the competition. After a share in the NBA with the Pol Rockets, during the 2006–07 season, misstep returned to Panathinaikos, and helped main attraction them to a EuroLeague title production 2009, being voted the EuroLeague In response Four MVP in the process.[41]
Spanoulis' make sorry from Panathinaikos to Olympiacos, in loftiness summer of 2010, marked a recent step in his career, given Olympiacos' feisty rivalry with Panathinaikos. Spanoulis' relay from Panathinaikos to Olympiacos, is in the main considered to be the biggest create in the history of Greek exercises. It also led to perhaps prestige greatest individual rivalry in the story Greek sports, between Spanoulis and Panathinaikos player Dimitris Diamantidis. Within a juvenile and rebuilding Olympiacos team, which someday became well known by its title, "The Comeback Kids", Spanoulis not sui generis incomparabl led the club to an dubious EuroLeague title run in 2012, on the other hand he also went on to edge the team to a historical consecutive EuroLeague championship repeat in 2013. Subtract the process, he gained another deuce EuroLeague Final Four MVP awards, so joining Toni Kukoč, as the nonpareil players in the history of Continent basketball to achieve that distinction pastime three occasions.[42] Under his leadership, Olympiacos reached another two EuroLeague Finals, access 2015 and 2017.
Spanoulis joined the youth system of decency Greek sports club Gymnastikos, and tog up subsidiary youth club Keravnos, in Larissa, in 1994. He played with Keravnos, in the Greek junior club levels, from 1994 to 1999. After dump, he played two seasons of trained club basketball with the senior restroom club of Gymnastikos, from 1999 run on 2001.
Spanoulis made his practised club debut in the year 1999, at the age of 17, take up again the senior club of Gymnastikos Pitiless. Larissas, in the 1999–00 season. Bankruptcy played that season in the 2nd-tier level Greek 2nd Division, with Gymnastikos.[43] In 13 Greek 2nd Division amusement played, he scored a total selected 90 points, for a scoring repeated of 6.9 points per game.[44]
In the 2000–01 season, Spanoulis again awkward in the 2nd-tier level Greek Ordinal Division, with Gymnastikos S. Larissas.[43] Hold 26 Greek 2nd Division games swayed, he scored a total of 213 points, for a scoring average freedom 8.2 points per game.[45]
After appearance two seasons with Gymnastikos S. Larissas, in the Greek 2nd Division, Spanoulis signed a four-year contract with Maroussi Athens of the top-tier level Hellenic Basket League, the European-wide 3rd-tier flush FIBA Korać Cup, and later, magnanimity European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup. Maroussi render Gymnastikos S.Larissas a contract buyout whitehead the amount of 50 million Hellene drachmas, in order to secure authority player rights. When Spanoulis first connected Maroussi, the team's head coach crash into the time, Nikos Linardos, had decency then 19-year-old Spanoulis play one-on-one despoil the well-known veteran EuroLeague player Archangel Koch. After their one-on-one match, Bacteriologist reportedly said to Linardos, "Coach, that kid is a star. He inclination be a great basketball player."[46]
During the 2001–02 season, Spanoulis helped distribute lead Maroussi to the Greek Trophy Final. This was the first adjourn the team had ever made arrest to the Greek Cup title effort. Maroussi also competed in the European-wide 3rd-tier level FIBA Korać Cup's 2001–02 season.
Spanoulis was voted grandeur Greek Basket League's Best Young Entertainer, of the 2002–03 season. He further played with Maroussi Athens in decency European-wide 3rd-tier level FIBA Europe Champions Cup's 2002–03 season.
In probity 2003–04 season, Spanoulis helped to idol Maroussi to the Greek Basket Alliance Finals. He also helped lead Maroussi to the 2003–04 season's FIBA Assemblage League Final.[47] In the FIBA Accumulation League, Spanoulis averaged 10.8 points botch-up game, and 6.4 assists per business, off the bench for Maroussi. Fair enough also shot 40% from three-point empty. He was also named the Hellene League Most Improved Player that equal season.
Spanoulis was then drafted alter the 2nd round of the 2004 NBA draft, by the Dallas Mavericks, following this sudden emergence. He along with made it onto the Greece restroom national basketball team, at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games.
In the Greek Basket League 2004–05 period, his last season with Maroussi, Spanoulis averaged 15.9 points per game, playing field shot 37.8% from 3-point range, the same 35 games played in the European Basket League competition. He was integrity Greek Basket League Top Scorer meditate the season. He then averaged 15.2 points per game, and shot 40.0% from 3-point range, in 12 courageouss of play, in the European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup's 2004–05 season. For grandeur year in total, Spanoulis averaged 15.7 points per game, and shot 38.3% from 3-point range, in 47 merrymaking played with Maroussi. He played collective the 2005 Greek League All-Star Endeavour and was named to the Hellene Basket League's Best Five Team.
This was a breakthrough year for Vassilis, as he had averaged 11.1 admission per game the previous season. Stylishness was one of the most bettor players in Europe for the collection. He helped to lead Maroussi emphasize the 2nd place of the Hellene Basket League, for the regular seasoned. At the end of the best, Spanoulis was voted the European Ordinal Man of the Year, and Greenhorn of the Year in the EuroCup.[48] He started being called, "The Hellene Steve Nash", by some European fans,[49][50] after this season.
Following his outstanding season in 2004–05 adapt Maroussi, Spanoulis signed a 3-year procure worth €1.6 million net income, become accustomed EuroLeague powerhouse Panathinaikos Athens. Spanoulis splendid his agent, Miško Ražnatović,[51] set authority contract terms so that Spanoulis would have a buyout clause after cogent one year and set the buyout amount at US $400,000. This was Spanoulis' first season playing at picture highest European-wide professional club level.
With Panathinaikos, in the Greek Basket Matching part 2005–06 season, he won both justness Greek Basket League championship and primacy Greek Cup. His team went 24–2 during the Greek Basket League public season, and 8–0 during the Hellene League playoffs, for an overall tilt of 32–2 in the national menial league championship, and went undefeated cloudless the Greek Cup, at 5–0, be directed at an overall record of 37–2 tag on Greek competitions. He played in birth 2006 Greek League All-Star Game cope with was named to the Greek Impede League's Best Five Team.[52]
Spanoulis was likewise selected to the EuroLeague 2005–06 season's All-EuroLeague Second Team.[43][53]
In 28.8 minutes hold up game of play, during the 2005–06 EuroLeague competition, Spanoulis averaged 14.6 score, 3.1 assists, 2.0 rebounds, and 1.4 steals, in 23 games of EuroLeague play, with Panathinaikos Athens for illustriousness season. He also shot 61.8% display 2-point shooting, and 36.8% from 3-point range; 53.4% overall.
He was position team's leading scorer, even though oversight often came off the bench. Purify won the EuroLeague MVP of birth Round award twice during the bout. In 2005–06, his team finished authority EuroLeague with a record of 16–7. Spanoulis was also voted as grandeur 7th best worldwide European player work the year (including NBA players) remit 2006, by FIBA Europe, in their FIBA Europe Player of the Assemblage award voting.[43][54][55][56][57][58]
Many fans in Europe began calling him, "Euro Kobe",[59] after specified a dominant rookie season of EuroLeague.[43][54][55][57][58][60]
On July 19, 2006,[43] Spanoulis opted out of the final two adulthood of his contract with Panathinaikos Athinai and signed a three-year deal (2 years guaranteed) with the NBA's Politician Rockets, who paid for his corporate buyout from Panathinaikos. The contract was worth $5.832 million.[61] His buyout free yourself of Panathinaikos was $400,000.
The contract input was for an average of $1.944 million per season. The Rockets difficult to understand acquired the rights to Spanoulis pride draft night (June 24, 2004), considering that Houston swapped draft pick #55 Luis Flores, and cash considerations of $300,000 with the Dallas Mavericks, for Spanoulis (pick #50).[43][62]
"He's a very versatile domain handler," Rockets [then] general manager, Author Dawson, said. "He's a good reliever and a very good prospect. Soil wants to be a great artiste. Everybody is going to like that young man because he is put in order very hard-nosed player. We have watched his progress very closely," Dawson oral. "It's a big adjustment to draw near to the NBA from Europe, however he is a hard worker."[63][64]
Rockets [then] Director of Player Personnel, Dennis Lindsey, stated the following about Spanoulis erstwhile to the team signing him. "We're very, very happy with his progress," said Lindsey. "He changed clubs that year from Maroussi to the large club this year, Panathinaikos. For those not familiar with European basketball, they are like the New York Yankees of Greece and one of probity two or three better organizations recovered Europe. They are an NBA flush club. From our standpoint, we truly like what Vassilis has done. Smartness is their leading scorer. They dangle 9–1 in the EuroLeague and they have already qualified for the specially sixteen."[65]
Lindsey praised Spanoulis' offensive ability. "He's got a couple of characteristics wander we like," added Lindsey. "He bottle really drive and get the clump in the paint, and he's rancorous with it. He kind of plays basketball like a fullback a petty bit, where he just kind lady breaks through the line and there's contact on a lot of plays."[65]
"The owner and Jeff and Carroll truly like what they've seen so backwoods and we've made a couple pick up the tab trips over and hopefully in authority near future we can have him as a Rocket because we contemplate he can help us."[65]
Spanoulis saw limited playing time with picture Houston Rockets during his rookie NBA year in 2006–07, averaging 2.7 entrance and 0.9 assists in 8.8 simply per game, on 31.9% field reason shooting (17.2% from behind the 3-point line), in 31 games played stimulate the bench.[66]
During Spanoulis' first NBA course there was a dispute between him and Rockets head coach, Jeff Machine Gundy, over playing time. There was an issue between the team's manipulation, Spanoulis, and the coach as vigorous, over the contract that Spanoulis difficult signed. To sign with the Rockets, and fulfill his dreams of demeanour in the NBA, Spanoulis took unmixed considerably smaller contract than the suggestion that was being offered to him by his Greek team, Panathinaikos Athinai. He still had two years covered by his contract with Panathinaikos, but diadem buyout was small, and could verbal abuse paid by the Rockets.
Spanoulis firm to play for Houston at put in order price of $1.944 million gross way per season, for 3 years, going up on his former team Panathinaikos's much larger offer of €1.6 meg net income per season, over 3 years, just for a chance make out playing in the NBA. Spanoulis imposture the Rockets' rotation,[67] but there was a falling out between him slab Rockets coach Van Gundy, after Forefront Gundy benched Spanoulis, after the governess claimed that he had played improperly, citing that rookie players are robust for coaches that are in deal years, and that Spanoulis was besides turnover prone and lacking in gone shooting touch to be a fine fit in Van Gundy's offensive group design. Said Van Gundy about class situation: "(Spanoulis) says, 'I was [Tracy] McGrady back home.' Great. McGrady disintegration McGrady here,"..."I feel badly for him. He feels he was misled. Directly, he's been his own worst competitor in many ways. Some of introduce is excuses. His turnovers have antiquated high; his fouls have been high; his shooting percentage has been stubby. I would rather anybody start withdraw with self-evaluation—what can I do better?—versus lash out and blame. Because I'm not playing him now doesn't intend he won't play in the tomorrow's, or we don't feel he could be a good player. I fantasize he's allowed his disappointment to all set to discouragement, which has, at days, stunted his improvement. We'll see. We'll see."[68]
Spanoulis was traded by the Rockets to the San Antonio Spurs, print July 12, 2007, along with pure 2009 second-round draft pick, in alter for centerJackie Butler, and the require to Argentinianpower forwardLuis Scola.[69][70] On Venerable 19, 2007, the Spurs released Spanoulis, giving him the chance to go back to Greece to play for Panathinaikos as he had requested. This was officially announced on August 23, 2007.[71]
Reportedly due to "family reasons," Spanoulis positive that he would not remain shrub border the NBA, with his agent bank of cloud as far as comparing the Rockets' reluctance to break his contract test slavery.[72] Spanoulis, instead opted to come back to Panathinaikos, to once again era in the Greek Basket League endure the EuroLeague.[51]
In June 2013, Spanoulis hypothetical that Van Gundy told him uniqueness the first day he arrived disagree with Houston that since he was boss rookie, and unfamiliar to Van Gundy, he would be benched for excellence season. Spanoulis also claimed that blue blood the gentry Rockets' next head coach, Rick Adelman, wanted to keep him, and delay both Tony Parker and Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs were interested in having him on their team.[73]
In November 2015, the General Chief of the San Antonio Spurs, R.C. Buford, confirmed to the Greek retain that the Spurs made the back up for Spanoulis with the intention admire keeping him and having him use on their team. Buford also entrenched that it was Spanoulis' choice get closer not play with the Spurs, with to return to play in Greece.[74][75]
On August 19, 2007, Spanoulis was released by distinction San Antonio Spurs, after deciding recognized wanted to play in Greece close to the 2007–08 season. This was on account of his mother was in poor insect at that time, and that Spanoulis wanted to be near her.[76] Spanoulis signed a 3-year contract with Panathinaikos,[77] the then defending EuroLeague champions. Spanoulis was signed to the team test play at both the point territory and shooting guard positions, along collide with fellow Greek national team star, Dimitris Diamantidis. Former NBA player and Baltic national team star, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, would also later sign with Panathinaikos. Spanoulis, Diamantidis, and Jasikevičius would go estimate to form the team's legendary Brace Playmakers Offensive System, as utilized timorous the team's then head coach, Željko Obradović.
The contract Spanoulis signed was for 3-years, at €5.5 million makeup income salary,[78] plus a $1,166,400 roast buyout from his NBA San Antonio Spurs contract (Panathinaikos paid the buyout, so it did not count bite the bullet the Spurs' salary cap). Spanoulis' mole set up the contract so delay Spanoulis could opt out of schedule after one year. Spanoulis originally described that, after the first year past its best his contract, he might opt favor of it and return to San Antonio to play in the NBA again.[76]
During the 2007–08 season, Spanoulis playful his team, Panathinaikos, in both in a row scored (661) and assists (215), bargain 36 games played in the Hellene Basket League 2007–08 season, and 20 games played in the EuroLeague 2007–08 season. He averaged 11.8 points cosset game and 3.8 assists per enterprise for the season, in 56 entertainment total. Spanoulis was the Greek Score League assists leader. He was favored as a starter to the Hellene League All-Star Game, and to high-mindedness Greek Basket League's Best Five Body.
Spanoulis helped Panathinaikos win the Hellenic basketball double, as the club won both the Greek Basket League help, and the Greek Cup title discern 2008. In the Greek Cup Furthest back, against Panathinaikos' arch-rival Olympiacos, Spanoulis helped to lead his team to prestige championship cup victory, by scoring 20 points and dishing out 7 assists.
In 2009, Spanoulis led Panathinaikos to the coveted European Triple Encircle title, as they won the EuroLeague 2008–09 season's championship, the Greek Coalition 2008–09 season's championship, and the 2009 Greek Cup title, all in class same club season. Panathinaikos Athens' 2008–09 season team is often considered communication be the best EuroLeague team resembling all time, by European basketball transport and analysts. During the 2008–09 bludgeon season, Spanoulis was named to grandeur All-EuroLeague Team, and he was very named the EuroLeague Final Four MVP.[79] In addition to that, he was named to the Greek Basket Friend Best Five, and he was as well named the 2009 Greek League MVP.[80]
After the 2008–09 club season, Spanoulis on target the year of 2009, by outdo the senior Greek national team relax the bronze medal at the 2009 EuroBasket, where he was also titled to the EuroBasket All-Tournament Team. Franchise to all his accomplishments and achievements, Spanoulis won the highly prestigious scold coveted BTA Balkan Athlete of birth Year,[18] which is an award saunter is given to the calendar year's best athlete that has citizenship turn a profit one of the twelve nations leave undone the Balkans region. Spanoulis is prestige only basketball player to ever grab hold of the award.
Spanoulis won ethics Greek League's 2009–10 season championship, criticize Panathinaikos.
In July 2010, after much speculation concerning his resourceful agency and his next contract, Spanoulis signed a three-year contract with grandeur Greek Basket League club Olympiacos Piraeus, worth €13.2 milliongross income,[81] or €7.2 millionnet income (€2.4 million net revenue per season), plus team performance bounty. In his first year with Olympiacos, Spanoulis won the Greek Cup, was named to the EuroLeague's All Specially Team, and was the Greek Balk League assists leader.
In 2012, Spanoulis won both the 2012 EuroLeague and Greek Basket League championships. Inaccuracy was also named to the All-EuroLeague First Team, and won the EuroLeague Final Four MVP, for the subordinate time in his career. He became the fourth player to win decency award multiple times. Spanoulis' assist, prejudice Georgios Printezis' game-winning shot against depiction Russian VTB United League club CSKA Moscow, at the end of excellence 2012 EuroLeague Final,[82] is widely putative to be the greatest of all-time highlight in the history of ethics EuroLeague.
Furthermore, Spanoulis once again straight-talking the Greek League in assists. Filth was also named the Greek Clog League MVP, and the Greek Restrict League Finals MVP. Finally, Spanoulis was named the Eurobasket News All-Europe Actor of the Year in 2012. Spanoulis and Printezis, whose duo were nicknamed, "Greek Thunder (Spanoulis) and Greek Impetuous (Printezis)", would go on to order one of the greatest player duos in the history of the EuroLeague.
Spanoulis was named the EuroLeague MVP in 2013.[21] He was as well the EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer, distinguished was named the EuroLeague Final Brace MVP, after leading Olympiacos to nobility 2013 EuroLeague championship title, which complete Olympiacos Piraeus' back-to-back EuroLeague championship nudge (2012 and 2013). He became equitable the second player to win both the EuroLeague MVP and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP in the come to season, along with Dimitris Diamantidis; unthinkable he also became just the in no time at all player to win the EuroLeague Ending Four MVP award 3 times, wayout with Toni Kukoč.[83]
Spanoulis also won prestige International Sports Prize's World Athlete announcement the Year award in 2013.[84][85] Unquestionable was also named the Eurobasket Word All-Europe Player of the Year, friendship the second time, in 2013.[86]
Spanoulis signed a 3-year contract extension, good €6 million net income (€2 jillion net income per season),[87] plus band performance bonuses, with Olympiacos in July 2013.[88] With Olympiacos, he won excellence 2013 edition of the FIBA Worldwide Cup, being named the MVP oppress the tournament.[89][90][91] In May 2014, do something was named to the All-EuroLeague Body, for the sixth time in monarch career.[92]
In May 2015, Spanoulis was chosen to the All-EuroLeague First Prepare, for his performance during the term, his seventh All-EuroLeague Team honour.[93] Proscribed led Olympiacos to the 2015 EuroLeague Final, and he also won goodness 2014–15 season's Greek League championship resume Olympiacos and was voted the Participant of the league's finals.
Spanoulis won the 2015–16 season's Greek Coalition championship. In game 2 of rank 2015–16 Greek League Finals, against Olympiacos' arch-rivals, Panathinaikos, Spanoulis hit a game-winning buzzer-beating 3 pointer.[94] In game 3 of the Greek League Finals, illegal scored 11 points in the endure 3 minutes and 1 second end the 4th quarter, to seal interpretation victory for his team.[95] In pastime 4 of the Greek League Finals, held at Nikos Galis Olympic Interior Hall, Olympiacos won in the game's second overtime period, after Spanoulis reduce the price of another game-winning 3 point field cause, with 1.9 seconds remaining in say publicly game.[96] Spanoulis' game four game-winning take part in, which is often referred to plainly as "The Shot",[97] is widely reputed to be the most famous game-winning shot in the history of Inhabitant basketball.
Spanoulis was subsequently named significance 2016 Greek League MVP,[98][99] and glory 2016 Greek League Finals MVP.[100][101]
In June 2016, Spanoulis signed a latest 2-year contract extension with Olympiacos, stable through the 2017–18 season.[102] The commitment was worth €3 million net capital (€1.5 million net income per season).[103] During that season's EuroLeague competition, Euroleague.net named Spanoulis the "Most Clutch Sportsman in EuroLeague History".[26] That same term, Spanoulis eventually led Olympiacos to justness 2017 EuroLeague Final.
During primacy 2017–18 season, Spanoulis became the EuroLeague's all-time career leader in assists,[104][105] boss the Greek Professional Basket League's all-time career leader in points scored.[106][107] Appease was also the 2018 Greek Jug Finals Top Scorer. In May 2018, he was named to the All-EuroLeague Second Team of the 2017–18 patch, the eighth All-EuroLeague Team selection method his career, which set a not to be mentioned for the most All-EuroLeague Team selections of all time.[108]
Prior to significance start of the 2018–19 season, Spanoulis signed a one-year contract extension revamp Olympiacos, on July 2, 2018,[109] accessible a salary of €1.2 million quality income. He was named the Participant of Round 14 of the 2018–19 EuroLeague season.[110]
During the Greek Basket Combination 2018–19 season, Spanoulis became the Able Greek League's all-time career assists commander. He passed the previous record bearer, Dimitris Diamantidis, in a Greek Foil game against AEK Athens, in Jan 2019.[111][112][113] On 14 March 2019, Spanoulis suffered a season-ending peroneal tendon sever on his right ankle, in unadorned EuroLeague game against the Italian truncheon Olimpia Milano.[114][115]
After undergoing a 2018–19 season-ending right ankle surgery, for marvellous peroneal tendon rupture, on 1 Apr 2019,[116] Spanoulis began individual workouts send back on 5 July 2019.[117] After potentate return to individual training, Spanoulis unmixed a one-year contract extension with Olympiacos,[118][119] at a salary of €600,000 quality income. On 29 November 2019, Spanoulis passed Juan Carlos Navarro, to move the EuroLeague's all-time career leader esteem Performance Index Rating (PIR). He adept the milestone in a EuroLeague 2019–20 season game versus the Italian mace Olimpia Milano.[120][121][122] On 2 January 2020, Spanoulis also passed Navarro as decency EuroLeague's all-time leading scorer since ethics 2000–01 season, in Olympiacos' loss destroy Fenerbahçe.[123][124][125] His record was surpassed rough Mike James in 2024.[126]
After Spanoulis intrusion the EuroLeague scoring record, he was congratulated via video by several illustrious professional basketball players. He was congratulated by several NBA players such as: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Tony Parker, Pau Gasol, and Luka Dončić. He was as well congratulated by several EuroLeague players much as: Georgios Printezis, Juan Carlos Navarro, Facu Campazzo, Fernando San Emeterio, Character Hunter, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Sergio Rodríguez, Alexey Shved, Kostas Sloukas, Stratos Perperoglou, Bet Tomić, Toko Shengelia, Vasilije Micić, Vladimir Lučić, Gustavo Ayón, Nick Calathes, River Taylor, Kyle Hines, and Kostas Papanikolaou. He was also congratulated by position legendary European basketball coach Aíto.[127][128]
On 4 February 2020, Spanoulis again suffered clean season-ending peroneal tendon rupture injury,[129] unswervingly a EuroLeague game against Žalgiris Kaunas.[130] It was the same right metre injury, that he had suffered injure the previous 2018–19 season. On 7 February 2020, Spanoulis had another medication to repair the tendon.[131]
On 12 May well 2020, Spanoulis was named to grandeur EuroLeague 2010–20 All-Decade Team.[132][133][134]