Greece is such a great nation. Your culture, pride, passion, food, places are all exceptional. Since I was young I visited Greece with my family a lot and now I can honestly say that I feel at home whenever I step onto Greek soil. Moreover, the basketball culture is on another level there. So many great legends and players come from your country. You should be proud and never stop chasing your dreams! Respect from Serbia! Orthodox brothers. 🇷🇸🤝🇬🇷

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

We respect you alot from Greece bros. You have good values, good open personalities and great focused work ethic. Hello from Greece guys.

@xeniosaias

10 ай бұрын

❤

Well, this is unexpected!! My home town on the main NBA channel!

@antimimoniakos

10 ай бұрын

Yes it is amazing.

Excellent documentary, I really liked it and was happy to see Stojakovic and Galis, two of my favorite players. I love you brothers and sisters, Thessaloniki, Athens, Corfu and all of Greece, especially Athos. We will never forget your support in 1999. and Marinos Ricudis, as well as the WW1 graves of Serbian troops in Corfu and Thessaloniki. Believe me just like at home when I'm in Greece. Respect and love from Serbia, Serbs and Greeks are Orthodox brothers forever 🇷🇸 ☦🇬🇷 ♥

@user-di7ww6pm3c

10 ай бұрын

Poz od Larissa ,Grčka

@user-ir7zd9li9d

10 ай бұрын

BPATE, Greetings from Greece! Allies in all wars and Orthodox brothers!

@linosgreco777

10 ай бұрын

☦️

Very emotional video for all Greeks, because we love basketball.

RIP Giannis Ioannidis, the greatest coach and one of the pioneers of the basketball legacy of this city and this country.

amazing country greetings from turkey to greece

Respect Thessaloniki from Sparta!!!🏀🇬🇷

I am Greek and a basketball fan ! I feel honored that the official ''Nba youtube channel'' has created this 45 minute documentary ! Thank you NBA !

That put a tear in my eye 🥲. I was born in thessaloniki and grew up playing basketball all day(90s). When we couldn t find free court, very common thing back then, we used to play to trash bins 😂. I was paok fan so i feel very happy seeing Rentzias, my idol player was stojakovic before NBA took it from us! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Ελλαδάρα! Greetings from the south and the town of Nafplio, the first capital of Greece!

45:59 don't skip the post credit scene

Excellent Documentary! 👏👏

I love these episodes. Basketball has such a rich history in Europe ♥️

Feels like a dream watching my hometown on the NBA channel, thank you for the incredible video!

Basketball is the second nature for most people in Greece.. very nice documentary, thanks NBA!

YOU HAVE TO SAY MORE ABOUT IRAKLIS BC. Iraklis bc is the second team that played basketball in Greece, after YMCA. Many great players played for iraklis in the begining of their career, such as Diamantidis, Schortsanitis, Lazaros Papadopoulos, Chatzivrettas and many more. They all played for national team at its prime. DAVID ANCRUM also played for iraklis. The stadium of iraklis, Ivanofeio, has still that crazy 90s atmosphere in 2023

@minardi028

10 ай бұрын

είναι αλήθεια πως ο Ηρακλής αδικήθηκε στο αφιέρωμα. Το όνομα της ομάδας αναφέρθηκε μόνο μια φορά και αυτό δεν είναι καθόλου αντιπροσωπευτικό της αξίας της.

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

Schortsianitis yes played but mostly came from Mantoulides school team as did Nikos Zisis, and I think Kostas Sloukas as well). Actually a full documentary would have Zisis, schortsianitis, Sloukas, Diamantidis etc.

@nikostheofanidis9970

10 ай бұрын

Hahahahahaha γριές

@miqueasvalentinhernandez3998

5 ай бұрын

With that athmosphere, why isn’t that team playing in Europe, as In 1995?

I'm from Athens but I would also pick Thessaloniki as the "purest" basketball city in Greece, even though they're much smaller. I think they just love the game more, and they've probably benefitted from being closer to former Yugoslavia. And of course, they had Galis.

@FearTheNorth

10 ай бұрын

Respect my friend

@georgemacpherson1992

10 ай бұрын

Athens > Thessaloniki. Athens does it better.

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

We didnt benefit because closer to Yugoslavia, distance athens is also near. It is the greater love of Thessaloniki people for basketball (maybe because of YMCA or other reasons) who had people visit Yugoslavia to hire Serbian coaches or generally bisit many places, and hire even with less money than Athens ( also Paok or even Iraklis would try in order to find way to beat Aris and Galis - Thessaloniki is competitive).

@SP-nx8qx

10 ай бұрын

@@innosanto Eh you can drive 6 hours to Belgrade, maybe that's important to some people, maybe not. Like I said I'm not questioning the love, it's definitely there, and thats the most important thing. Now you need some money :)

@stavrospechlivanidis7339

10 ай бұрын

@@georgemacpherson1992 that's because the people that own Olympiakos and Panathinaikos can spend a lot more money nowadays compared to basketball clubs from Thessaloniki. But a lot of great players started their careers here in clubs from Thessaloniki. Galis, Diamantidis (a lot of people forget he started from Iraklis BC), Rentzias, Stojakovic and a lot more playes that I can't remember right now and that's a fact. Basketball clubs from Athens are not very well known for producing a lot of talented players, without that taking something away from their great success from the 90s and untill today.

Travelled two Thessaloniki two years ago. Beautiful city. Wish my damn tour guide coulda let me in on some of this info, glad i got to learn it now

@TheUnknownNumber9

10 ай бұрын

Next time you should watch the Aris vs Paok rivalry match in basketball,big mess!

Peja Stojakovic was also playing for years in Thesssaloniki before going to the NBA

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

Stojakovis is actually still connected to the city. He had a bar in the city , and then he moved to thessaloniki after NBA but then went back for somemanagement position to US

Νίκος Γκάλης ο μεγαλύτερος Έλληνας αθλητής όλων των εποχών

It’s nice to see more diverse countries in the NBA 👌

@hyperquantum3020

10 ай бұрын

what do you mean by ''diverse countries'' ?

@filipposclub

10 ай бұрын

@@hyperquantum3020 means different

My city my home!!! Thessaloniki the capital of Macedonia Greece!!!

Such a great docu "Basketball cities ". I just been to Thesaloniki 2 months ago and this docu even enhanced my experience there. ❤ Thesaloniki

The most beautiful city in the world !!!!

Γεια σου ρε Σαλόνικα με τις ταλεντάρες σου! Greetings to all NBA and in general basketball lovers around the world!

Great documentary of Thessaloniki's basketball history. Proud of my son being an U18 player of the best basketball academy in Greece DEKA!

@pesto801

9 ай бұрын

A re Hatzivretta ti ekanes

Amazing Doco 👏

AEK B.C. in *1968* won the European Cup (a tier 2 title back then - considered important) and took it to Greece. This was the 1st international title for a Greek team; the *second came* in 1991, 24 years later with PAOK, and the very first major international title (EuroLeague) came came in 1996 with this epic team Panathinaicos BC started building. Thessalonike is a major basketball city, ARIS BC being a phenomenon back in the day with N.Galis and the others, but the city's teams unfortunatelly never enjoyed major international titles. *Disclaimer:* Im not an AEK or PAO or OLY fan. Im just a fan of basketball

This was EPIC, greetings from Thessaloniki.

I'm Greek let's go!!!🇬🇷

Thessaloniki was the first place in Greece where basketball was introduced in the 1910's and became part of its DNA and culture. Many top players have their origins from this place, either by competing in the local teams either they were born or received their basketball education in this city. This video barely displays some basic reasons why this happened. The most important is that people love and play basketball no matter if the local teams are protagonists in the sport or not.

Beautiful documentary, but I believe we should also mention the huge contibution of Iraklis to the gowth of basketball in Thessaloniki. If you think of it, many of the stars of Greek Basketball that have contributed to the great success of the National Team were given the chance to shine wearing the colours of Iraklis. Among them , Diamantidis is the most famous of course, but also Chatzivretas (who appears a lot in this video) , Schortsianitis, Lazaros Papadopoulos and many other great athletes and great coaches. It is sad to see how Iraklis gets overlooked because of the state the team is in right now, even though the 90s and 00s were greatly influenced by this team, who always gave the chance to young Greek players to compete on the highest level in the country.

@iraklisantifa

10 ай бұрын

Iraklis also is one of the teams that established FIBA

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

Schortsianitis , Zisis, Kostas sloukas cane from Mantoulides school that is where they were developed and Mantoulidis almost got world medal.

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

@@iraklisantifaGreece established FIBA with another 8 countries not Iralkis

@ThePitogyro

10 ай бұрын

@@innosanto You are a bit confused, that was their school and not their club. Only Sloukas played for Mantoulidis out of school. The club of Nikos Zisis was YMCA and Schortsianitis Iraklis.

@iraklisantifa

10 ай бұрын

@@innosanto one guy from Greece was from Iraklis Giannis Ampatzoglou

I do not think there is a more beloved athlete in Greece than Galis.

Wow now i get emotional...... Greetings to the whole world from Thessaloniki

THANK YOU @NBA ...........really made to live my childhood again...touched my heart this documentary...thanks to all the people that made this video

People dont realize how good Galis was but thats life. He could do things noone in the NBA could do. But what he understood correctly is that what he did to Thessaloniki and Greece was even greater, he changed Greek cultural history and became engraved in the collective subconscious as much more than sport, as a political and social event. He understoof that it was karma, a karmic meeting related even to Greek political crises that Greeks wanted to refresh from. In US it would just be a sport and a game. Galis also made Thessaloniki outshine money-hungry Athens which collected taxes to invest in Athens with citizens thoughtful on something

Great film, really liked all the city movies, excellent work. Istanbul, Belgrade, Thessaloniki awesome work guys

Thank you NBA channel!❤

now im waiting for ATH

Nikos Gallis, number 13th of Greek Gods

The most insane thing is hearing someone leaving America cause Greece was a better financial choice

@lamproskostopoulos365

10 ай бұрын

Not anymore 😂😅😢

@innosanto

10 ай бұрын

It is the 80s, Greece had great financial situation, 1) years 1955-75 Greece had second highest development rate in the world, a low debt, and good finances and then entered european trade agreement and 2)the serious governmwnr lost elections and the fake liar PASOK used that good financial situation to get unsustainable loans so Greece got filled with borrowed money and so there was alot money around. Greece pays those loans of that fake party and the ones that followed the same formula, now.

1. NBA you are the best, thank you! 2. I think a lot of kids and future players won't appreciate it, that they don't mention IRAKLIS as a major team of the city. The only reference is 29:38 - "ή με τον Ηρακλή". Otherwise, the video is awesome!

Amazing ... thank you for this beautiful documentary

Θεσσαλονίκη💪♥️

Such a nice documentary, well done to everyone that helped for this!

Excellent documentary, thank you for this. Great to learn things about places in the world that are basketball hotbeds.

Where is Diamantidis, Giannakis, Fasoulas, Prejevic just to name a few historical pkayers from Thessaloniki

Excellent work!

Thanks, I watched about 50 adds and a few minutes of hoop cities documentary in between..

As a Salonica native I am sad to say that with regards to basketball, since it tends to follow the money, it has now moved exclusively to Athens. Much like everything else in this country.

Damn Greece is on the main NBA channel that's crazy😅

I am from Greece 🇬🇷 Nice and excited video Lov y basketball 🏀 Stay working friends 🏀💪🏻💪🏻

Just amazing!

10+ for cinematography

Amazing video!

Εξαιρετικο!

Great past, but we should invest in the future. PAOK, Aris and Iraklis need to return to their former glory.

Basket was the ideal sport for Greek cities which were (unfortunately) densely built, cemented to the last cm²: It was easier to put basketball courts than football ones or of any other sport. As kids growing up in the city we were mainly playing basketball. We were watching football as much as basketball but we were playing more basketball than football. The arrival of Nick Gallis in the early 80s put this game on the forefront, the guy did magic, easily the best European (sure, born in the US) player ever.

great documentary, but you had to talk about bane prelevic, the greatest basketball player to play for paok

Thessaloniki is a blessed place.

Goosebumps

Basketball 🏀 NBA Thessaloniki Galis ... Impact...Social..🎉

Το οτι θα εβλεπα το Στρεμπενιωτη στο επισημπ καναλι του nba δεν το περιμενα ποτε

Greece also holds the record on Eurocup I guess ,80 thousand people watching basketball .

@JOG2777

9 ай бұрын

Dude it's fact. Greece, Spain, Serbia ,Turkey and Lithuania fans holding up the basket in Europe.

Well this struck me different 😮

Greek Basketball = Nick Galis = ARIS

Hell yeah!!!

So thrilled to see my hometown and it's culture (not only the basketball one) in NBA's channel. Huge disrespect from Aris's fans in the comments, what a disappointment....

Χαλαρά!!!

home sweet home

Greek basketball 🏀🏀🏀❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

Ευχαριστούμε για τις ωραίες στιγμές που μας χαρησες να σαι καλά εσύ και η οικογένεια σου.

ΜΙΑ ΖΩΗ ΟΛΟ ΠΑΟΚ🖤🤍

The voice of Nick in the beginning.

❤❤❤

❤🏀

Thessaloniki = PAOK

🇹🇷🤝🇬🇷

45:59 that's what great athletes do!

🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

25:05 ενδιαφέρον μέρος για τους 76ers

Ελλαδαρα ρε

02:24 παιζει να ειναι το μοναδικο καλαθι που εβαλε ο ρετζιας στο nba

@skullpierceres4878

10 ай бұрын

ειχε βάλει 9 πόντους & 4 ριμπάουντ σε 8 λεπτά κοντρα στου Nets.Το καλύτερο παιχνίδι της ζωης του ηταν αυτο

@GinLimeSoda

10 ай бұрын

Ναι, και;

Thessaloniki was the cradle of basketball till early nineties, then it moved to Athens and Pireus. At some point Thessaloniki basketball will revive.

ARIS = GALIS = BASKETBALL

Nice try...but its not giving the reality of basketball in Thessaloniki...sorry guys but the producers, propably "bullied" from ARIS, the biggest team in basketball of Thessaloniki, the team who was undefeated for 80 consecutive matches in the league and went in Final 4 of euroleague for 4 times in a row...its a pitty that the producers had the privilege to produce something representative for Thessaloniki but they decide to put their personal, but not representative reality

Is this a documentary about Paok bc ? Nothing about Iraklis BC the club that came after YMCA and ofc Aris Bc which is the biggest club in town. So sad really …..

Did i cry watching because im Greek? lol

Has the NBA ever heard of Iraklis?😡

Efthimios Rentzias decided to returning back to Greece since there wasn't a NBA team to keeping him on the roster and playing his last season for the 76ers before retiring in 2004?!

11th

BANE PRELEVIC PAOK!

First my guy

SKG HOLDEM✊

Basketball in Thessaloniki is mostly Aris B.C. Iraklis & PAOK follows.

Πολύ ενδιαφέρον βίντεο, ωραία γυρισμένο δείχνοντας μόνο τις όμορφες στιγμές αυτής της πόλης γιατί μόνο αυτό έχει, όμορφες στιγμές. Εγώ σαν ΠΑΟΚτσης πρέπει να πω ότι δεν έδειξαν καθόλου τον Ηρακλή γιατί και αυτός σύλλογος προσέφερε στο μπάσκετ της πόλης. Και κάτι ακόμα, το ότι μίλησε ο μεγαλύτερος παπατζης αυτής της πόλης με ξεπέρασε για ακόμα μία φορά. Ο άνθρωπος που έκανε ότι μπορούσε για να σταματήσει την εξέλιξη της πόλης και δυστυχώς αυτό προσπαθεί ακόμα. Η πόλη "ήταν" μπασκετομανα τώρα δεν είναι, θέλει πίστη όνειρο όραμα και χρήματα για να ξαναγίνει.

καλο θα ηταν να γραφετε τα ονοματα ολων αυτων που συμετειχαν στο βιντεο την στιγμη που μιλανε ,υπαρχουν πολλοι ανθρωποι που δεν τους γνωριζουν και καλο θα ταν να τους μαθουν.

Thessaloniki is the city which became famous for one basketball team, the team who is responsible for all that Greeks achieve all those years. Aris Thessaloniki is that team and the fact that this documentary not mention these golden years of Nick Galis and his team, is a little bit embarrassing... 😢

ARIS is the biggest team in Thessaloniki the team that taught basket to all Greeks... everyone knows that...

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