Sporting B.C.
Sporting B.C. is a Greek professional basketball team that is located at Ano Patissia, Athens, Greece, at the area of Elia Zervou 89 and Sarantaporoy. The club's full name is A.O. Sporting Athens B.C..
History
The A.O. Sporting parent athletic association was founded in 1936, after a group of Greeks moved the Sporting Istanbul club that had been founded in 1924, to Athens. Sporting began with sports departments in basketball and volleyball, and later added the sports of boxing, swimming, and ping pong. Today, the A.O. Sporting athletic club has only the basketball department, A.O. Sporting B.C.Over the years, some of the players from Sporting B.C. played for the senior men's Greek National Basketball Team. The team competed in the FIBA Korać Cup competition in the 1979–80, 1980–81, 1995–96, and 1996–97 seasons. Sporting won the Greek Second Division championship three times, in 1988, 1991 and 2007.
In international competitions
Arena
Sporting B.C. plays its home games at the 2,500 seat Sporting Sports Arena.Titles and honors
National:- Greek 2nd Division:
- *1988, 1991, 2007
Notable players
- 20px Dinos Angelidis
- 20px Georgios Barlas
- 20px-20px Dave Caligaris
- 20px Christos Christodoulou
- 20px Kostas Diamantopoulos
- 20px Vangelis Karampoulas
- 20px Fotis Katsikaris
- 20px Georgios Kolokithas
- 20px Nikos Liakopoulos
- 20px Georgios Limniatis
- 20px Faidon Matthaiou
- 20px Dimitris Papanikolaou
- 20px Kostas Petropoulos
- 20px Ioannis Sioutis
- 20px Pavlos Stamelos
- 20px Vassilis Symtsak
- 20px Nick Tsiotos
- 20px-20px Nikola Radulović
- 20px Mitchell Wiggins
- 20px Alphonso Ford
- 20px Derrick Hamilton
- 20px Tony Costner
- 20px Tony Dumas
- 20px John Hudson
- 20px Brian Vaughns
- 20px Malcolm Mackey
- 20px Donald Williams
- 20px Andrés Guibert
Head coaches
- 20px Kostas Diamantopoulos
- 20px Steve Giatzoglou
- 20px Vassilis Fragkias
- 20px Kostas Petropoulos
- 20px Aris Lykogiannis
- 20px Angelos Koronios