The Lost Tapes of Stoiximan: Panagiotis Giannakis flips through the book of his life to Vassilis Skountis

Many of the fairy tales have a dragon, so the legend of Greek basketball has its own. Only his dragon is one of the good guys in the story.

The prologue for Panagiotis Giannakis, of course. Born on Patmou Street in Nikaia, he managed to belong to the sacred monsters of Greek basketball.

A journey that started at Ionikos was followed by great success with Aris to continue at Panionios and Panathinaikos, whom he helped win his first European Championship before retiring.

At the same time, he was one of the mainstays of the national basketball team. In total, played a total of 351 times with the blue and white team and scored a total of 5,301 points. He took part in a total of 8 European Championships (runner-up in history behind 9-year-old Krezimir Csosic), 3 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, after which he retired from active sport.

In all the years on the floor with the national jersey he won, among other things, a gold and a silver medal at European championships, while at the collective level he celebrated 7 championships and 7 cups, a European cup and a winner’s trophy.

The years of his contribution to Greek basketball don’t stop there, since then a coaching career has followed in which he left an indelible name in the history of Greek basketball. He took the technical lead of the “blue and whites” and took them to the top of Europe in 2005 and second in the world in 2006, with the historic victory over the USA Giannakis took on a “mythical” character for what he has brought to the sport, both both as a player and as a coach.

It essentially became the link, as a player and as a coach, in the two golden generations of Greek basketball and the two European Championships won by the national team. Collectively, they won the cup with Olympiakos.

This great journey of memories unfolds in the conversation that Panagiotis Giannakis has with Vassilis Skountis. Photos, apparitions and anecdotal stories scroll through your screen on a journey of approximately one hour.

“Drakos” recalled unique moments from all this journey on and off the floor while also answering the great dilemma between player Panagiotis and coach Giannakis.

Are you ready for the 2nd episode of The Lost Tapes by Stoiximan starring Vassilis Skountis and Panagiotis Giannakis?

Watch the full interview on Stoiximan’s YouTube channel.