Personal
Fans have dubbed him V-Span and Kill Bill. He is the first and only Greek-born player to play for the Houston Rockets, and only the third Greek-born player to play in the NBA. His basketball idol, and favorite player as a kid, was Michael Jordan.
He has been friends with fellow basketball players like Roderick Blakney, Jake Tsakalidis, Shane Battier, John Lucas III, Tracy McGrady, and Steve Novak. He is best friends with Nikos Zisis, and he was the best man at Zisis' wedding. He is married to Miss Star Hellas 2006, Olympia Hopsonidou. Together, they have a son named Thanasis.
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“I’m afraid, sir, that I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils and werewolves at the age of six.”
—John Colton (1886–1946)
“Keep your own secret, and get out other people’s. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people’s. Counterwork your rivals with diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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—John Updike (b. 1932)