Fanis Christodoulou

Fanis Christodoulou
Φάνης Χριστοδούλου
	Fanis Christodoulou playing with Panathinaikos.
Panionios
Position	General Manager
Personal information
Born	May 22, 1965 (age 59); Athens, Greece
Listed height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Career information
NBA draft	1987: 4th round, 90th overall pick
	Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Playing career	1983–1998
Position	Small forward / power forward
Number	4, 15
Career history
1983–1997	Panionios
1997–1998	Panathinaikos
Career highlights and awards
	As a player: 1991 I); Greek League champion (1998); Greek Cup winner (1991); Greek League MVP (1993); 2× Greek All-Star (1991, 1994 I); Acropolis Tournament MVP (1996); No. 4 retired by Panionios; Greek League Hall of Fame (2022);
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Men's basketball
Representing Greece
FIBA EuroBasket
Balkan Championship

Theofanis "Fanis" Christodoulou (

sports journalists called him "The European Charles Barkley". While his nickname among his teammates was "Bembis" ("Baby").^[1]

Christodoulou was inducted into the

FIBA Hall of Fame

.

Professional career

Christodoulou started his playing career with the youth teams of the Greek club

Dafni. He spent most of his pro club career with Panionios, where he played from 1983 to 1997. With Panionios, he won the Greek Cup title in the year 1991. Christodoulou spent the last year of his career playing with Panathinaikos. With Panathinaikos, he won the Greek League

championship, in the 1997–98 season. After that, he retired from playing pro club basketball.