Vangelis Sakellariou

Greek basketball player

Vangelis Sakellariou
Βαγγέλης Σακελλαρίου

Free agent

Position

Shooting guard / point guard

Personal information

Born

(1989-08-04) August 4, 1989 (age 34)
Athens, Greece

Nationality

Greek

Listed height

6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m)

Listed weight

210 lb (95 kg)

Career information

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

Career highlights and awards

Greek League champion (2019)
Greek Cup winner (2019)
2× Greek 2nd Division champion (2013, 2017)

Medals

Men's Basketball

Representing Greece
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
	2009 Greece	Under-20

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.

Professional career

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.

National team career

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]