Vassilis Charalampopoulos (basketball)

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Vassilis Charalampopoulos
Victoria Libertas Pesaro
2023–presentDinamo Sassari
Career highlights and awards
  • 3× Greek League champion (2013, 2014, 2017)
  • 5× Greek Cup winner (2013–2017)
  • 2017
    )
  • FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship MVP (2015
    )
Medals
Representing  Greece
Men's Basketball
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
Gold medal – first place
2017 Greece
 Under-20
FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 Greece Under-18
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship B
Bronze medal – third place
2016 Greece
 Under-20

Vassilis Charalampopoulos[1][2] (alternate spellings: Vasileios, Vasilis, Basilis, Charalabopoulos) (Greek: Βασίλης Χαραλαμπόπουλος; born January 6, 1997) is a Greek professional basketball player for Dinamo Sassari of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).

Early career

Charalampopoulos, a

semi-pro level Greek B League, which is the 3rd-tier division of Greek basketball
.

Professional career

Panathinaikos (2012–2018)

In 2012, Charalampopoulos moved to the

Lokomotiv Kuban, on 13 December 2013.[7]

On June 25, 2016, Charalampopoulos extended his contract with Panathinaikos for eight years, through the 2023–24 season.

PAOK, for the 2017–18 season. As part of his loan deal to PAOK, his contract with Panathinaikos was also restructured, as he signed a new 4-year contract with them, lasting through the 2020–21 season. The new contract also contained NBA buyout options after each season.[9]

On August 20, 2018, Charalampopoulos and Panathinaikos agreed to prematurely terminate their contract.

PAOK (2017–2018)

On August 16, 2017, Charalampopoulos was

PAOK, for the 2017–18 season.[10] With PAOK, during the 2017–18 Greek Basket League season, in 24 games played, he averaged 6.5 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.0 assists, and 0.8 steals per game, in 19.6 minutes per game.[11] He also played with PAOK in the European 3rd-tier level Basketball Champions League (BCL), where in 11 games played, he averaged 7.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 0.5 steals per game, in 15.9 minutes per game, during the 2017–18 season.[12]

Lavrio (2018–2019)

On August 24, 2018, Charalampopoulos signed a two-year deal (with an opt-out clause prior to the Greek playoffs for the 2019 NBA draft) with Lavrio of the Greek Basket League and the FIBA Europe Cup.

Olympiacos & Ionikos Nikaias (2019–2021)

On August 14, 2019, Charalampopoulos signed a four-year (2+2) deal with EuroLeague side Olympiacos. On September 15, 2019, he was loaned to Ionikos Nikaias of the Greek Basket League for the 2019–2020 season. His loan was prematurely recalled on January 8, 2020, and Charalampopoulos rejoined Olympiacos for their EuroLeague campaign, after a rather successful stint with Ionikos. On July 17, 2021, Olympiacos opted out of their mutual contract and Charalampopoulos became a free agent. In 13 EuroLeague games total with Olympiacos (11 during the 2020–2021 season), Charalampopoulos averaged a playing time of only 7.5 minutes, as well as 2.5 points and 0.6 rebounds per contest.

Reyer Venezia (2021)

On August 1, 2021, Charalampopoulos signed a multi-year deal with

Umana Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A
(LBA).

Fortitudo Bologna (2021–2022)

On December 1, 2021, Charalampopoulos transferred to Fortitudo Bologna.[13]

VL Pesaro (2022–2023)

On July 17, 2022, Charalampopoulos signed with

Victoria Libertas Pesaro of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).[14]
He averaged 9.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

Dinamo Sassari (2023–present)

On July 13, 2023, he signed with Dinamo Sassari of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).[15]

National team career

Junior national team

With the junior national teams of Greece, Charalampopoulos played at the

FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship.[16] He won the bronze medal at the 2013 Under-16 tournament. He also played with Greece at the 2013 TBF Under-16 World Cup
in Sakarya, Turkey, where he helped Greece win the gold medal, and was voted to the All-Tournament Team.

In the summer of 2014, Charalampopoulos played at the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship and helped Greece reach the fourth place of the tournament. He finished the tournament being first in minutes per game, third in points per game and fifth in total rebounds, earning his place in the All-Tournament Team.[17][18]

In the summer of 2015, Charalampopoulos suffered a right ankle injury in a friendly game against the USA, and doctors initially said that it would be difficult for him to play at the 2015 FIBA Under-19 World cup.[19] Despite the injury, Charalampopoulos was able to play at the tournament, and he scored 21 points against the US in the tournament's semifinal.[20] Greece lost the semifinal game against the US, and Charalampopoulos was then injured once again in the third-place game, against Turkey, which Greece also lost, as they finished in fourth place.[21]

Charalampopoulos also played at the

triple double at the same tournament.[22] Eventually, Greece beat Turkey in the tournament's final, by a score of 64–61, and won the gold medal.[23] Charalampopoulos was honoured as the MVP of the tournament.[24][25] During the tournament, Charalampopoulos averaged 16.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 5.2 assists per game.[26]

Charalampopoulos then played at the 2nd division level

2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he won the gold medal and was named MVP of the tournament.[27]

Senior national team

Charalampopoulos became a member of the senior men's

Greek national basketball team for the first time in 2016. He was selected as one of 12 players to compete with Greece at the 2016 Turin FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.[28]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

EuroLeague

Cited from euroleague.net[29]
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2013–14 Panathinaikos 1 0 2.8 .000 .000 .000 1.0 .0 .0 .0 0.0 0.0
2014–15 12 5 8.8 .571 .571 .750 1.2 0.7 .3 .2 2.2 2.9
2015–16 6 1 9.5 .375 .250 .667 2.0 1.0 .2 .2 1.5 3.7
2016–17 7 2 4.2 .333 .000 .000 .3 .0 .0 .0 .6 -.1
Career 26 8 7.5 .464 .417 .727 1.1 0.5 .2 .1 1.5 2.2

Awards and accomplishments

Club career

Greek junior national team

See also

References

  1. ^ VASILIS CHARALAMPOPOULOS Player home.
  2. ^ 15 Vassilis Charalampopoulos.
  3. ^ Vassilis Charalampopoulos Height: 204 cm.
  4. ^ 2018 NBA Global Camp Anthropometric Testing Results.
  5. ^ Basketball.Eurobasket.com Vasileios Charalampopoulos basketball profile.
  6. ^ 26 Νοεμβρίου 2012 07:00 | ΟΑΚΑ 07η Αγωνιστική | Κανονική Περίοδος | Basket League ΟΠΑΠ 2012-13 (in Greek).
  7. ^ 2013-14 Regular Season Round 9 DECEMBER 13, 2013 CET: 17:00 LOCAL TIME: 20:00 BASKET HALL.
  8. ^ Panathinaikos BC Announcement.
  9. ^ Ο Χαραλαμπόπουλος δέχθηκε μείωση 64% για να παίξει στον ΠΑΟΚ (in Greek).
  10. ^ Ο Βασίλης Χαραλαμπόπουλος στον ΠΑΟΚ (in Greek).
  11. ^ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ Βασίλης | STOIXIMAN.GR Basket League 2017-18 (in Greek).
  12. ^ Vasileios CHARALAMPOPOULOS STATISTICS.
  13. ^ "Vasilis Charalampopoulos è un nuovo giocatore della Fortitudo Kigili!". fortitudo103.it (in Italian). 1 December 2021.
  14. ^ "VL Pesaro announces Vasilis Charalampopoulos". Sportando. July 17, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  15. ^ "Dinamo Sassari signs Vassilis Charalampopoulos". Sportando. July 13, 2023. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
  16. ^ FIBA.com Vasileios CHARALAMPOPOULOS (GRE).
  17. ^ FIBAEurope.com U-18 Men Vasileios Charalampopoulos (Greece).
  18. ^ FIBAEurope.com MVP Güven Heads All-Tournament Team.
  19. ^ Τραυματίστηκε ο Χαραλαμπόπουλος (in Greek).
  20. ^ ΗΠΑ - Ελλάδα 82 -76 (in Greek).
  21. ^ Ελλάδα - Τουρκία 71 - 8 (in Greek).
  22. ^ Έγραψε ιστορία ο Χαραλαμπόπουλος (in Greek).
  23. ^ Greece Emerge Champions After Nailbiter.
  24. ^ MVP Charalampopoulos Headlines All-Star Five.
  25. ^ Greece beat Turkey to win 2015 U18 European Championship.
  26. ^ Vasileios Charalampopoulos Greece stats.
  27. ^ Charalampopoulos crowned MVP after leading Greece to title.
  28. ^ Greek NT squad for OQT is announced.
  29. ^ CHARALAMPOPOULOS, VASILIS Stats Euroleague.

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