Greek National Team
Diamantidis was a member of the senior Greek national basketball team. With the senior national team of Greece he won the gold medal at the EuroBasket 2005. During the European Championship that year, he led the tournament in assists and he was selected to the All-Tournament Team. In the tournament semifinals against the French national basketball team, Diamantidis hit a game-winning 3 point shot with Greece trailing by a score of 66-64 at the end of the game, to give Greece the 67-66 victory and send them to the European Championship's final game.
He was also a member of the Greek national team that went on to win the silver medal the next year at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. He was a key factor in Greece's historic 101-95 victory against Team USA in the semifinals.
Diamantidis was also a member of Greece's national team that competed at the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournament, which was held in Athens, Greece. He was also been selected to play on Greece's national team for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Diamantidis was also on the Greek teams that participated at the EuroBasket 2003 and the EuroBasket 2007. With his national team he has also won the silver medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games and the gold medal at the 2006 Stanković Continental Champions’ Cup. He has also won 7 Acropolis Tournaments with his national squad, being the tournament's MVP twice, in 2005 and 2006.
On September 4, 2010, after Greece's elimination in the Eighth-Finals of the 2010 FIBA World Championship at the hands of Spain, he announced his immediate retirement from the Greek National Team.
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