Dinos Angelidis

Who is Dinos Angelidis?

Dinos Angelidis is a Greek former basketball player. His position was either small forward or power forward.

He started his basketball career at Sporting in 1985. In 1990, he was acquired by Aris Thessaloniki. Over the next nine years Angelidis played for the "emperor" of Greek basketball, winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1993 and the Korać Cup in 1997. On the domestic front he won two Greek Basketball Cups. He served as Aris' captain part of that time. His career was marred by his failure on May 12, 1999, to pass an anti-doping test prior to a game against PAOK which caused Aris to forfeit that game.

The following year Angelidis transferred to PAOK where he played just one season. He also played for Dafni before retiring in 2001.

During his career Angelidis played 81 times for the Greek national basketball team, scoring 645 points. He was a member of the squad that won second place in EuroBasket 1989 in Zagreb, Croatia. He also participated in EuroBasket 1991 and 1995 as well as the Olympics of 1996.