Andreas Glyniadakis
Andreas Glyniadakis (Greek Ανδρέας Γλυνιαδάκης, born August 26, 1981 in Chania, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player. With its size of 2.16 m, he plays on the position of the center.
- 2.1 Professional Career
- 2.2 national team
Career
Europe
Glyniadakis began his career in the youth team of Chania on Crete in Greece. In 1997 he finally moved to the Greek first division the club Panathinaikos Athens, began his professional career here and won with the team during the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, the Greek Championship. In the summer of 2001, he finally moved to Peristeri Athens, where he played two more seasons.
USA
With the 58th pick of the NBA Draft in 2003 Glyniadakis was selected by the Detroit Pistons, never played for this club but an NBA game. The 2005/2006 season he spent with the Roanoke Dazzle in the NBA D- League. In 2006 he played in the pre-season games for the upcoming NBA season in the team of the Atlanta Hawks, but was dropped from the squad of the team before the first season game. Subsequently he moved to the NBA D -League to the Albuquerque Tunderbirds, with whom he won the championship in 2006.
On November 5, 2006 Glyniadakis signed a contract with the Seattle SuperSonics, for which he in a total of 13 games in which he scored 1.3 points on average, ran aground. On 4 January 2007, the Center was canceled out of the squad, so he again played in the D- League for the Thunderbirds. In 2007 Glyniadakis tried for the time being unsuccessful last time the jump to the NBA and played in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas for the Boston Celtics.
Back in Europe
In May 2007 Glyniadakis still had a contract with Virtus Bologna signed in the Italian league, there to deny the rest of the season before it in September, finally returned to his interlude in the NBA Summer League to Greece and a contract signed with AEK Athens. On October 1, but it was deleted here from the squad and moved on to league rivals Athens, the Maroussi club. After two seasons changed Glyniadakis 2009 Greek club Olympiacos Piraeus tip, with whom he has 3 seasons behind a Direction ( 2009-2012 ) in the highest European competition, the Euro League played. After winning the Euro League 2012 Glyniadakis moved to Kazakhstan to BK Astana.
National team of Greece
Glyniadakis was a member of various junior national teams of Greece. So he took, among others, in 1997 at the European U16 Championship and arrived in 1998 with his team at the U18 European Championship third place. He also took with Greek youth team in 1999 at the U18 World Cup and in 2000 at the U20 European Championship in part.
Glyniadakis was also later appointed the Greek national basketball team and took with her at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing part. In the European Basketball Championships in Poland in 2009, he won the bronze medal with his team.
Awards and achievements
Professional career
- Greek champion: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2012
- Kazakh champion: 2013
- Greek Cup Winners 2010, 2011
- Kazakh Cup Winners: 2013
- European Cup Champion 2000
- ULEB Euro League: 2012
- NBA Development League Championship in 2006
- Participation in the Greek Allstar Game: 2004, 2009
National
- Bronze medal at the U18 European Championship in 1998
- Bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2009