Dimitris Agravanis inks multi-year deal with Panathinaikos

The greek forward started the season in Italy with GeVi Napoli Basket

Panathinaikos OPAP has signed Dimitris Agravanis (29, 2.08 meters) till the end of the 2024-2025 season.

Agravanis is a basketball player, born on December 20, 1994 in Marousi, Athens. He is a power forward who last played for Peristeri.

He enrolled at the local youth system academy of then Greek club Maroussi Athens as a kid, where he eventually made the club’s first team, and signed a professional contract with them in 2010..

Agravanis began his professional career in 2010, with the Greek Basket League club Maroussi Athens, and in 2012, he made a move to the Greek League club Panionios Athens, where he also competed in the European-wide 2nd-tier level EuroCup competition.

In 2013, he signed with Olympiacos Piraeus. At the beginning of his first season, Olympiacos Piraeus won the 2013 edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup title.

In the 2014–15 season, Agravanis averaged 6.4 points per game, in 14.4 minutes per game in the Greek League, and 4.1 points per game, in 12.5 minutes per game in the EuroLeague.

With Olympiacos Piraeus, he also won the Greek League championship in 2015 and 2016.

Agravanis signed with the Greek EuroCup club Promitheas Patras in 2019. He averaged 8.2 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in the EuroCup’s 2019–20 season. He re-signed with the team on July 15, 2020. During the 2021-22 season, in 29 league games, Agravanis averaged 14 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.2 steals, playing around 25 minutes per contest.

On September 27, 2022, Napoli Basket officially announced that they had signed Agravanis on a monthly contract with an option for the rest of the season. In 5 games with the Italian club, he averaged 8.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.

On November 4, 2022, Agravanis signed a contract with Peristeri, averaged 10.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.

On June 25, 2015, Agravanis was selected with the 59th overall pick, of the 2015 NBA draft, by the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. His draft rights were then traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2017, and were then traded to the Sacramento Kings a year later.

Agravanis has also been a member of the senior men’s Greek national team. He was selected to Greece’s roster for the 2016 Turin FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament. He also played with Greece at the 2017 EuroBasket.

In September, Agravanis participated in the EuroBasket 2022, representing Greece. Throughout the tournament, Agravanis averaged 6.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 assist

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