Story translated from Greece's Sport24. Written by Anastasis Karmousadakis; Photos by Francesca Giaitzoglou Watkinson. Giannis established the rendezvous with a tweet: "Let's go for basketball.

Giannis grew up in the Sepolia neighborhood of Athens, Greece playing basketball and dreaming of one day playing in the NBA All-Star game. On the weekend The Greek Freak makes his All-Star debut, Nike ...

SEPOLIA, Greece — With less than a minute remaining in the game, Yiannis Tzikas was already setting out plastic cups to fill with champagne. “It’s over. No one can turn this game now,” he said, his ...