Nikos Oikonomou

Nikos Oikonomou
Νίκος Οικονόμου
	Nikos Oikonomou, as a player of Panathinaikos.
Personal information
Born	February 19, 1973 (age 48); Nikaia, Piraeus, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	240 lb (109 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1990–2007
Position	Power forward
Coaching career	2008–present
Career history
As player:
1990–1991	Ionikos Nikaias
1991–1999	Panathinaikos
1999–2000	Virtus Bologna
2000–2001	Olympiacos
2001–2002	Barcelona
2002–2003	Olympia Larissa
2003–2004	Dynamo Moscow
2004–2006	Panionios
2007	Panellinios
As coach:
2008	Spata
2008	Ionikos N.F.
2008	Olympias Patras
2008–2012	Ikaros Kallitheas (assistant)
2012–2014	Panionios (assistant)
2013–2014	Ikaroi Serron
2014–2015	Livadeia
2015–2016	Ionikos Nikaias
2016–2017	Panionios
2018	Apollon Patras
2018–2019	Panionios
Career highlights and awards
	As a player FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion (1996); EuroLeague champion (1996); 4× FIBA EuroStar (1996–1999); 2× Greek League champion (1998, 1999); 2× Greek Cup winner (1993, 1996); Greek League Top Scorer (2005); Greek League Best Five (2005); 6× Greek All-Star (1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006); FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship MVP (1989); As a head coach Greek 2nd Division Champion (2017);
Men's Basketball
Representing Greece
Mediterranean Games
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship

Nikolaos "Nikos" Oikonomou (alternate spellings: Ikonomou, Ekonomou) (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Οικονόμου; born February 19, 1973) is a retired Greek professional basketball player, and a current professional basketball coach. As a basketball player, he was a 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) tall power forward and four-time FIBA EuroStar selection. Oikonomou also runs Basket4All, a basketball camp for young children.

Club playing career[]

Oikonomou started his playing career with the Greek club Ionikos Nikaias. From 1991 to 1998, he was a member of the Greek club Panathinaikos. He was one of the leaders of the team for many years. In 1993, he won the Greek Cup with Panathinaikos. He also played in the EuroLeague Final Four, at Tel Aviv, in 1994, and at Saragoza in 1995, coming in 3rd place both times.

In 1996, he won with Panathinaikos, the EuroLeague championship, the Greek Cup, and the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, all in the same year. In 1998, he won with Panathinaikos, the Greek League championship, the first Greek championship of the team since 1984. He then moved to Italy, to play in the Italian League in 1999, where he played with Virtus Bologna, and after a year, he moved from there back to Greece, to play for Olympiacos.

In 2001, he transferred to Spanish club Barcelona of the Spanish League. He later returned to the Greek League to play for Olympia Larissa, and he then left Greece once again, to play in Russia for Dynamo Moscow of the Russian Super League.

He then continued his career playing back in Greece with Panionios, and finally, his last team was the Greek club Panellinios. While at Panionios, he was the Greek League's Top Scorer, in the 2004–05 season.

National team career[]

Oikonomou was a longtime member of the senior men's Greek national team. Some of the senior tournaments that he played at were the EuroBasket 1993, where Greece finished in 4th place, the EuroBasket 1995, where Greece again finished in 4th place, and the EuroBasket 1997, where Greece also finished in 4th place.

He also played at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, where Greece finished in 5th place, and at the 1998 FIBA World Championship, where Greece came in 4th place.

Coaching career[]

Oikonomou began his basketball coaching career in 2008, when he became the head coach of the local Greek amateur club Spata, of the lower Greek divisions.^[1] The next team he coached was Ionikos NF, which was playing in the 4th-tier Greek national amateur level at the time. He was then the head coach of was Olympias Patras, which was competing in the Greek 2nd Division at the time.^[2]

He was next an assistant coach, working first as an assistant coach with Ikaros Kallitheas, and then as an assistant coach with Panionios. In 2013, he became the head coach of , which was playing in the Greek 2nd Division at the time. In 2014, he became the head coach of Livadeia, a team that was also playing in Greece's 2nd Division.

He was then the head coach of Ionikos Nikaias, a team that was playing in Greece's 3rd-tier national semi-pro level at the time.^[3] In 2016, he became the head coach of the Greek 2nd Division club Panionios.^[4]