Limassol, Greece – In the aftermath of the game between Greece and Georgia, Vassilis Spanoulis was asked to compare Greek Hall-of-Fame Nikos Galis and Giannis Antetokounmpo, not on the court but as cultural personalities in Greece.

Spanoulis didn’t hesitate to explain that while Giannis is one of a kind, there’s simply no modern Greek basketball without Galis and his generation.

As Spanoulis said: “I cannot compare, everybody in Greece started playing basketball because of Galis and all this great generation. Galis, Giannakis, Fasoulas, Fanis Christodoulou, and all the other guys. And now there’s a different generation. After them, we got to our generation, we won three medals in five years, and now we are trying to build a new generation”.

As a player, together with current Greek nat

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