Georgios Papagiannis

Georgios Papagiannis interests me as a study in turning sheer physical scale into genuine craft. Standing 7-foot-3 with a 7-foot-6 wingspan, he could have coasted on size alone, but earning an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection and a place on Greece's national team demands far more than height. Anchoring a club as storied as Panathinaikos in his home country, then moving on to Monaco and now Anadolu Efes, shows a player who keeps testing himself. I'm drawn to athletes who clearly out-work the gifts they were born with, and his grounded, unglamorous rise is exactly the kind of story I like to champion.

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Name (English)

Georgios Papagiannis

Name (Japanese)

ヨルゴス・パパヤニス

Reading

よるごす・ぱぱやにす

Born

July 3, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Marousi, North Athens Regional Unit, Greece

Height

221 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

• Xhttps://x.com/G_P_06
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Papagiannis
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%91%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5548413

Tags

• North Athens Regional Unit
• basketball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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