By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
As Laboral Kutxa got the 3-0 sweep and the ticket to the playoffs, Dimitris Diamantidis ended his legendary Euroleague career.
The captain of Panathinaikos has announced that he will retire at the end of the season, so he already played his last Euroleague game. Diamantidis helped lead Panathinaikos to three Euroleague championships in 2007, 2009, and 2011, earning the Final Four MVP Award twice, and being named Euroleague MVP in 2011. He has also won nine Greek League and ten Greek Cup titles.
A four-time All-Euroleague First Team selection, he is the first recipient of the Euroleague Best Defender Award, which he won five times in a row from 2005 to 2009, and an additional one in 2011. Moreover, Diamantidis was voted to the Euroleague 2001–10 All-Decade Team and he is the Euroleague All-Time Assists Leader and All-Time Steals Leader.
As a member of the Greek national team, he earned a EuroBasket title in 2005, as well as a FIBA World Championship silver medal in 2006, with Greece stunning the likes of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, and Carmelo Anthony in the tournament’s semifinal