Dimitris Diamantidis

What draws me to Dimitris Diamantidis is how unfashionable his greatness was. Standing 198 cm yet thinking like a point guard, he spent his EuroLeague years almost entirely with Panathinaikos and was named 2011 Euroleague MVP, but his game was about defense, vision, and control rather than highlight dunks. I admire players whose value lives in the parts of basketball that do not photograph well. He came from Kastoria and built a legacy that European basketball fans still invoke reverently. To me he is the model of the cerebral, team-first competitor who quietly defines an era.

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Name (English)

Dimitris Diamantidis

Name (Japanese)

ディミトリオス・ディアマンティディス

Reading

でぃみとりおす・でぃあまんてぃでぃす

Born

May 6, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Kastoria, Kastoria Regional Unit, Greece

Height

198 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Euroleague MVP

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris%20Diamantidis
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353845

Tags

• Kastoria Regional Unit
• basketball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.