Thanasis Antetokounmpo officially joins Aris!

The 34-year-old international forward is returning to Greece to bolster the front line of Vasilis Spanoulis’s team, which announced his signing for the next 2+1 years!

Aris’s announcement:

ARIS Basketball Club announces the signing of Thanasis Antetokounmpo for the next 2+1 years.

Thanasis Antetokounmpo was born on July 18, 1992, and at 2.01m tall, he plays the forward positions.

The ARIS international athlete began his basketball career with Filathlitikos in 2011. A year later, he moved to the U.S. to play for the Delaware 87ers, an affiliate of the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Development League. There, he averaged 12 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.2 steals, and 1.3 blocks per game.

In 2014, the New York Knicks selected him with the 41st pick in the NBA Draft. In the 2014–15 season, he played for the New York Knicks’ affiliate, the Westchester Knicks, averaging 13.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.7 steals, and 1.7 blocks, earning a spot on the D-League’s second-best defensive five.

In the 2015–16 season, with the same team, he averaged 10.9 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.2 blocks per game, while also appearing in two games for the New York Knicks.

In 2016, he returned to Europe to play for Andorra in Spain, where he averaged 7.3 points and 3.8 rebounds on average, helping the team return to the playoffs for the first time in 22 years (12.7 points, 4.7 rebounds against Real Madrid).

In the summer of 2017, she returned to Greece, signing a two-year contract with Panathinaikos AKTOR. In her first season, over 67 games in Greece and the EuroLeague, he averaged 5.6 points and 2.7 rebounds, winning the MVP title at the 2018 All-Star Game and subsequently the Greek championship. In 2018–19, he averaged 4.9 points and 2.5 rebounds in a total of 55 games, once again winning the championship title.

In 2019, he returned to the NBA to play for the Milwaukee Bucks, where he was reunited with his brother, Giannis. In 2021, he won the NBA championship with the Bucks. He remained with the NBA team until this past summer (he missed the 2024–25 season due to injury), playing a total of 255 games.

Since 2016, Thanasis Antetokounmpo has been a member of the Men’s National Team, and during this time he has been helping the team in its effort to qualify for the 2027 World Championship.

*photo source: arisbasketball.com