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Which team did the player Nikos Zisis belong to from 2000 to 2005?
Nikos Zisis Nikolaos Nikos Zisis ( alternate spelling : Zissis ; ; born August 16 , 1983 ) is a Greek professional basketball player for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League . At a height of 1.97 m ( 65 ) tall , he plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions . During his senior mens playing career , Zisis won the 2008 EuroLeague championship , while a member of CSKA Moscow . Zisis also won 9 national league championships in various European domestic leagues ( four Italian League titles , two Russian League titles , two German League titles , and one Greek League title ) . In addition to that , he also won 8 national cup titles ( four Italian Cups , two German Cups , one Russian Cup , and one Greek Cup ) . Two of his club teams , XAN Thessaloniki and Brose Bamberg , retired his team jerseys . As a member of the senior Greek national basketball team , Zisis won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket , the silver medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship , and the bronze medal at the 2009 EuroBasket . Early years . Zisis started his basketball playing career in the year 1996 , playing with the junior teams of XAN Thessaloniki ( English : YMCA Thessaloniki ) . He was with the club until 2000 . The club would later go on to retire his jersey , in 2018 . Professional career . Greece and Italy . At the age of 17 , Zisis moved to Athens , and to the Greek League team AEK , where he began his professional basketball career . With AEK , he won the Greek Cup in 2001 , and also the Greek League championship , in 2002 . He also won the Greek League Best Young Player award in 2002 . He then moved to Treviso , Italy , and played on the Italian League team Benetton Treviso . With Treviso , he won the Italian Super Cup and the Italian League championship in the year 2006 , and also the Italian Cup in the year 2007 . He then left Italy , and moved to Moscow , Russia . Russia , Italy and Spain . On June 13 , 2007 , he signed a 3-year contract worth €5 million euros net income with the Russian team CSKA Moscow . With CSKA , Zisis won the EuroLeague championship at the 2008 EuroLeague Final Four . In 2009 , he left CSKA , and signed a 2-year contract worth €1.6 million euros net income with the Italian League club Montepaschi Siena . In 2010 , he signed a 2-year extension with Montepaschi . In 2012 , he signed a 2-year contract , with the second year being an option year , with the Spanish League club Bilbao . He moved to the Russian VTB United League club UNICS Kazan , in July 2013 . Fenerbahçe . On December 29 , 2014 , the Turkish League club Fenerbahçe Ülker acquired Zisis . With Zisis playing 24.4 minutes per game , Fenerbahçe advanced to the 2015 EuroLeague Final Four . It was the first time in the teams history that they made it to the EuroLeague Final Four . However , on May 15 , 2015 , they lost in the EuroLeague semifinals to Real Madrid , by a score of 87–96 . Brose Bamberg . On July 16 , 2015 , Zisis signed a two-year contract with the German Basketball Bundesliga ( BBL ) club Brose Bamberg . In 2017 , he extended his contract with Brose , through the year 2019 . With Bamberg , he won two German BBL League championships ( 2016 , 2017 ) and two German Cups ( 2017 , 2019 ) . In the 2019 German Cup Final , Zisis hit the game-winner , with 2.4 seconds left in the game , to give Bamberg an 83–82 win over Alba Berlin . On September 7 , 2019 , Bamberg retired Zisis number 6 jersey . Joventut Badalona . On July 15 , 2019 , Zisis signed a two-year deal with the Spanish Liga ACB club Joventut Badalona . National team career . Greek junior national team . With Greeces under-16 junior national team , Zisis won the silver medal at the 1999 FIBA Under-16 European Championship , and he also led the tournament in scoring . He also won the bronze medal at the 2000 FIBA Under-18 European Championship . Zisis played with Greeces under-26 national selection at the 2001 Tunis Mediterranean Games . At the 2001 Mediterranean Games , he helped Greece win the silver medal at the tournament . In addition , Zisis won the gold medal with the Greek under-20 junior national team at the 2002 FIBA Under-20 European Championship , where he was also named the tournaments MVP . Greek senior national team . As a member of the senior mens Greek national basketball team , Zisis won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket , which was held in Serbia and Montenegro . He was Greeces leading scorer during the tournament , averaging 10.6 points per game . At the end of the semifinal game against the French national basketball team , Zisis drove the length of the court , drove into the middle of the floor , drew a double team , and then dished the ball out to Dimitris Diamantidis , who hit a game-winning 3 pointer . After his great performance at the EuroBasket in 2005 , Zisis was named the FIBA Europe Young Player of the Year . The next year , at the 2006 FIBA World Championship , which was held in Japan , Zisis hit a game winning 3-point shot at the end of the game against the Australian national basketball team , to give Greece a 72–69 victory . However , in the next game in the tournament , he was hit on the cheekbone and eye socket bone by the elbow of the Brazilian national basketball teams Anderson Varejão . Zisis suffered a severe facial injury that forced him to sit out for the remaining entirety of the 2006 World Championship , as the injury required surgery . Even though Greece lost Zisis , who was their leading scorer the year before at the 2005 EuroBasket , they were still able to win the silver medal ( including an improbable upset victory over Team USA in the semifinals ) during the World Championship tournament . At the 2007 EuroBasket , Zisis was one of the two key Greek players , along with Theo Papaloukas , that led Greeces national team to the biggest comeback in the history of the EuroBasket , against the Slovenian national basketball team . The comeback was called the miracle . Greece finished the tournament in 4th place . Zisis has also competed with Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics , where Greece finished in 5th place in the world , and at the 2008 Summer Olympics , where Greece also finished in 5th place in the world . He also played at the following tournaments : the 2009 EuroBasket , where he won a bronze medal , the 2010 FIBA World Championship , the 2011 EuroBasket , the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament , the 2013 EuroBasket , the 2014 FIBA World Cup , and the 2015 EuroBasket . In 2019 , the Hellenic Basketball Federation honored Zisis , in recognition of his contributions to the senior Greek national basketball team , with which he had 189 caps ( games played ) . Player profile . Zisis is 1.97 m ( 6 ft 5 in ) tall , and he plays mainly at the point guard and shooting guard positions , although he can also play at the small forward position if necessary . His primary position with his pro club teams is point guard , while his primary position with the Greek national team was shooting guard . Zisis is known as The Lord of the Rings , because he is the Greek player with the most combined medals won at the cadet , junior , young mens , and senior mens FIBA European and world tournaments . Personal life . Zisis is very close friends with his fellow Greek national basketball team player Vassilis Spanoulis , and he is also friends with Italian national basketball team player Andrea Bargnani . He married Fani Skoufi in 2010 , with Vassilis Spanoulis being his best man . His nickname is The Lord of the Rings . Awards and accomplishments . Club titles and national team medals won . - AEK Athens - Greek Cup : 2000–01 , 2019–20 - Greek Basket League : 2001–02 - Treviso - Lega Basket Serie A : 2005–06 - Italian Cup : 2007 - Italian Super Cup : 2006 - Montepaschi Siena - Lega Basket Serie A ( 3 ) : 2009–10 , 2010–11 , 2011–12 - Italian Cup ( 3 ) : ( 2010 , 2011 , 2012 ) - Italian Cup Supercup ( 3 ) : ( 2010 , 2011 , 2012 ) - CSKA Moscow - EuroLeague champion : 2007–08 - Russian Professional Championship : ( 2 ) 2007–08 , 2008–09 - VTB United League : 2008–09 - Russian Cup : 2013–14 - Brose Bamberg - Basketball Bundesliga champion ( 2 ) : 2015–16 , 2016–17 - BBL-Pokal ( 2 ) : 2017 , 2018–19 - BBL Champions Cup : 2015 Greek junior national team . - 1999 FIBA Under-16 European Championship : - 2000 FIBA Under-18 European Championship : - 2001 Mediterranean Games : - 2002 FIBA Under-20 European Championship : Greek senior national team . - 8× Acropolis Tournament Champion : ( 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2013 ) - 2005 EuroBasket : - 2006 FIBA Stanković Continental Champions’ Cup : - 2006 FIBA World Championship : - 2009 EuroBasket : Individual awards . - FIBA Under-16 European Championship Top Scorer : 1999 - Greek League Best Young Player : 2001–02 - FIBA Under-20 European Championship MVP : 2002 - 2× Greek League All-Star : 2004 , 2005 - FIBA Europe Young Player of the Year : 2005 - Acropolis Tournament MVP : ( 2013 ) - Jersey retired by XAN Thessaloniki : 2018 - German Cup Final MVP : 2019 - Number 6 jersey retired by Brose Bamberg : 2019 External links . - Nikos Zisis at acb.com - Nikos Zisis at basket.gr - Nikos Zisis at baskethotel.com - Nikos Zisis at draftexpress.com - Nikos Zisis at eurobasket.com - Nikos Zisis at euroleague.net - Nikos Zisis at fiba.com ( archive ) - Nikos Zisis at fibaeurope.com - Nikos Zisis at legabasket.it - Nikos Zisis at esake.g