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2021 Class of FIBA Hall of Fame: Panagiotis Giannakis
MIES (Switzerland) - Panagiotis Giannakis, the legendary point guard from Greece s FIBA EuroBasket 1987 winning team, is being inducted to the FIBA Hall of Fame.
Giannakis is being enshrined in the Class of 2021, along with vaunted players Mathieu Faye (Senegal), Hana Horakova (Czech Republic), Stanislav Kropilak (Slovakia), Oscar Moglia (Uruguay - posthumously), Detlef Schrempf (Germany), Penka Stoyanova (Bulgaria - posthumously), Sergey Tarakanov (Russia) and Haixia Zheng (China), and coaching greats Chuck Daly (USA - posthumously), Tom Maher (Australia) and Ettore Messina (Italy).
A young Giannakis showed tremendous potential
The signs all pointed to greatness for Panagiotis Giannakis who, at just 13 years of age, was already practicing with the men s team of Ionikos Nikaias and at 14 was playing in games.