Sofoklis Schortsanitis is a Greek basketball player. The name Sofoklis Schortsanitis or Σοφοκλής Σχορτσανίτης should not be confused with the name of the ancient Greek tragedian whose work has survived to the present day. Sophocles wrote plays while Sofoklis plays basketball. In Greek the name Sofoklis is written Σοφοκλῆς. Lets set the Greek name calling aside and see who Sofoklis Schortsanitis is. Was born in Cameroon and his father is Greek while his mother is Cameroonian. His nickname is Baby shaq because Sofoklis Schortsanitis is 6 ft 10 and weighs about 345 lb. He was born in 1985 and plays basketball in Greece for the Greek team of Olumpiakos. Sofoklis Schortsanitis has been playing basketball since his teenage years in Greece. He has also played basketball in Italy. Sofoklis Schortsanitis has even played on the greek national basketball team. As the time for the Olympic basketball match between Greece and Team USA approaches, team USA is eager to get even with Greece who defeated them not too long ago. Greece is the birthplace of democracy and the Olympics but not basketball. In general Greeks don’t have great basketball teams. Nevertheless, Team USA had been defeated by Greece two years ago….by 23 points. Here is a video of Sofoklis Schortsanitis.

Sofoklis Schortsanitis is definitely an up and coming basketball star, who has the potential of making it in the big league.

In 2003 Sofoklis Schortsanitis was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers, so he is a familiar face. In this game Sofoklis Schortsanitis might start at the center position. The boy contributed a lot in the Greece’s game against the US two years ago. Has the widest body of anyone in the Olympic men’s basketball tournament and played an excellent game in Japan against the US. The Americans me the Greeks in the semi-finals. The United States led by 12 points before the Greeks figured out a glaring weakness. After running the pick-and-roll to perfection, Greece Coach Panagiotis Giannakis kept hitting the repeat button, with Theodoros Papaloukas slicing up the Americans for 12 assists, and 300-plus pound big man Sofoklis Schortsanitis punishing them inside for 14 points. On the game that’s approaching, Sofoklis Schortsanitis will be what the American basketball team will be worried about the most. Sofoklis Schortsanitis is very talented and young. Sofoklis Schortsanitis is a souvlaki eating, ouzo drinking, point scoring basketball player machine.

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