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Position | Shooting guard / point guard | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Athens, Greece | August 4, 1989||||||||||||||
Nationality | Greek | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2011: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2007–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2007–2008 | Aigaleo | ||||||||||||||
2008 | Sidigas Avellino | ||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | Pagrati | ||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Trikala 2000 | ||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Rethymno | ||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Maroussi | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Nea Kifissia | ||||||||||||||
2013–2016 | Lavrio | ||||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Panionios | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Panathinaikos | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Aris Thessaloniki | ||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Ionikos Nikaias | ||||||||||||||
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Evangelos "Vangelis" Sakellariou (alternate spellings: Vagel, Vaggelis) (Greek: Ευάγγελος "Βαγγέλης" Σακελλαρίου; born October 4, 1989, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player who last played for Ionikos Nikaias of the Greek Basket League. He is 1.95m (6'4 3⁄4") tall, and he can play at the point guard and shooting guard positions.
In his pro career, Sakellariou has played in both the top-tier level Italian League, with Sidigas Avellino, and in the top-tier level Greek League. He was an early entry into the 2009 NBA draft. [1] He joined the Greek EuroLeague club Panathinaikos, on July 31, 2018. [2]
On February 17, 2019, he won the final of the 2019 Greek Cup, [3] which was held at the Heraklion Indoor Sports Arena, on Crete. Sakellariou also won the 2018–19 Greek League season's championship with Panathinaikos. He averaged 2.5 points and 3.0 rebounds, in 10.0 minutes per game in the Greek League that season.
Sakellariou was a member of the junior national teams of Greece. With Greece's junior national teams, he played at both the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he won a gold medal. [4]
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