Papagou B.C.
Papagou B.C., or Papagou Athens B.C. is a Greek professional basketball club that was founded in 1976. The team is located in Papagou, Attica, Greece. The club's full name is Athlitikos Syllogos Papagou Athens Basketball Club, which is abbreviated as A.S. Papagou Athens B.C..
History
The club's parent athletic association was founded in 1966. Ten years later, in 1976, the men's basketball club was founded. Papagou was promoted into the Greek [Basket League|major Greek basketball division] in 1990. The team spent seven seasons there in the 1990s, and had success in the 1996–97 season, and especially in the 1997–98 season, by beating Peristeri in the first round of the Greek League playoffs, before losing to PAOK in the second round. Led in that era by the great scorers Alphonso Ford and Georgios Diamantopoulos, they finished 7th in the Greek League in the 1996–97 season, and gained a qualification to the following 1997–98 season's FIBA Korać Cup competition. They would make one more appearance in that European professional club [basketball system|European-wide 3rd-tier] level competition, during the 1998–99 season.More recently, the Papagou basketball team struggled to hold on to its position in the top league in Greece, the first division Greek Basket League. In the 1998–99 season, the team competed in the Greek first division, for the last time in recent years.
Arena
The team's home arena is "Saloun" Indoor Hall, which is located approximately two miles away from downtown Papagou.Titles and honors
- Greek 2nd Division Champion :
- *1990, 1993, 1995
Notable players
Greece:- 20px Antonis Asimakopoulos
- 20px Georgios Bosganas
- 20px Kostas Charissis
- 20px Georgios Diamantopoulos
- 20px George Dikeoulakos
- 20px Periklis Dorkofikis
- 20px Nikos Filippou
- 20px Memos Ioannou
- 20px Sotiris Katoufas
- 20px Jon Korfas
- 20px Alexis Kyritsis
- 20px Georgios Limniatis
- 20px Sotiris Manolopoulos
- 20px Nikos Michalos
- 20px-20px Michalis Misunov
- 20px-20px George Papadakos
- 20px Michalis Romanidis
- 20px Georgios Sigalas
- 20px Michalis Yfantis
- 20px Alexandros Zabetakis
- 20px-20px Anatoly Zourpenko
USA:
- Image:Flag of [the United States.svg|20px] Tony Costner
- Image:Flag of the [United States.svg|20px] Derrek Farr
- Image:Flag of [the United States.svg|20px] Alphonso Ford
- 20px Greg Foster
- 20px Lowell Hamilton
- 20px Tony Harris
- 20px Todd Mitchell
- 20px Mikki Moore
- 20px Lawrence Moten
- 20px Anthony Pelle
- 20px John Shasky
- 20px Tony White
- 20px Randy Woods
