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}} Ioannis Bourousis (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Mpourousis) (Greek: Γιάννης Μπουρούσης; born November 17, 1983) is a Greek professional basketball player who current plays for Laboral Kutxa Baskonia of the Liga ACB. He is a 7 ft 0¾ in (2.15 m)〔(Official Player Profile 2.15 m in height ). archive.fiba.com. Retrieved on 2011-06-01.〕〔(ΜΠΟΥΡΟΥΣΗΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ Ημερ.Γέννησης: 17-11-1983 Θέση/'Υψος: C / 2,15 . )〕 270 lb (122 kg) center. Bourousis has been compared to FIBA Hall of Fame center Vlade Divac, by San Antonio Spurs' head coach Gregg Popovich.〔(MySanAntonio.com Greek center envisions future with the Spurs. )〕 ==Professional career== Bourousis originally began his athletic career training to be a professional swimmer, but he grew too tall for the sport and instead took up playing basketball, at the age of 18. He began his professional career in the year 2001 with AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League. In 2006, he transferred to FC Barcelona of the Spanish ACB League. Later that same year, he joined the Greek Euroleague club Olympiacos. In 2009, he was offered a 3-year $12 million contract〔(RedPlanet.gr Πρόταση των Σπερς σε Μπουρούση . )〕 by the NBA club the San Antonio Spurs.〔(MySanAntonio.com Greek center envisions future with the Spurs. )〕 However, he turned down San Antonio's offer, and instead signed a 3-year contract extension with Olympiacos worth €5.1 million euros net income.〔(Ioannis Bourousis re-signs with Olympiacos } ). Krepsinis.net. Retrieved on 2011-06-01.〕〔(Euroleague.net OLYMPIACOS: Three more years for Bourousis ). Admin.euroleague.net. Retrieved on 2011-06-01.〕 The contract contained a €1 million euros buyout amount, which could only be used to sign with an NBA team.〔 (– Στο στόχαστρο της Οκλαχόμα ο Μπουρούσης } ). Redplanet.gr. Retrieved on 2011-06-01.〕 After 5 years with Olympiacos, the club decided to terminate his contract. In summer 2011, just weeks before signing with Olimpia Milano, Bourousis was involved in a doping-related media controversy in Greece, after an unrelated football match-fixing probe of his (then future) father-in-law, Makis Psomiadis.〔(Ekathimerini.com Bourousis caught up in doping scandal. )〕〔(Interbasket.net Greece: Ioannis Bourousis caught in Doping Scandal. )〕 However, Bourousis was quickly cleared of any suspected wrongdoing, after he submitted to drug testing for FIBA protocols, which are overseen by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in order to be cleared to play with Greece's national team at FIBA EuroBasket 2011.〔(RedPlanet.gr "Καθαρός" ο Μπουρούσης . )〕〔(Pianetabasket.com Ioannis Bourousis è "pulito", firma un biennale con Milano! . )〕 On July 6, 2011, Bourousis then agreed to a two-year contract with the Italian A League club Olimpia Milano.〔(Milano inks Bourousis for two years. )〕 In July 2013, Bourousis signed a contract with the Spanish League club Real Madrid.〔(Euroleague.net REAL MADRID inks experienced big man Bourousis. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sportando.net/eng/europe/spain/59694/real-madrid-announced-ioannis-bourousis.html )〕 With Real Madrid, Bourousis won the Spanish Supercup in 2013 and the Spanish King's Cup 2014. In the summer of 2014, Real Madrid picked team option to keep him in the club for one more season. In the 2014–15 season, Bourousis won the Euroleague 2014–15 season championship, after his team Real Madrid, defeated his former team, Olympiacos, by a score of 78–59 at the 2015 Euroleague Final Four. Real Madrid also eventually finished the season winning the 2014–15 Spanish League championship, after a 3–0 series score in the ACB Finals against Barcelona. With that trophy, they won the triple crown. In September 2015, Bourousis signed a contract with the Spanish team Laboral Kutxa Baskonia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baskonia.com/en/ioannis-bourouis-nuevo-jugador-de-laboral-kutxa-baskonia/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ioannis Bourousis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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