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Update of his career sofar.
Bourousis was born in [[Karditsa]], [[Thessaly]], on [[November 17]], [[1983]]. He started playing basketball for local club GS Karditsa before transferring to [[AEK BC|AEK]] in [[2002]].
In [[2006]], he left AEK for Barcelona but later that same year was picked up by [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]] on a four-year contract. After five years at the Reds Bourousis played two years for Milano (Italy), two years for Real Madrid (Spain) and one year for Baskonia (Spain) before returning to [[Greece]] and more specific [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]]. After one year in the capital Bourousis went to China in [[2017]] to play for Zhejiang Lions. In [[2019]] he returned to Europa to play for Gran Canaria.
Bourousis, who stands 2.15m ( 7 ft 0 ¾ in) tall, was a member of the [[National Basketball Team|Greek squad]] that won gold in [[Eurobasket 2005]] and was a member of the bronze winning [[Eurobasket 20072009]] team.
He was a member of the 2008 Olympics team. In six Olympic games, the 280lb Bourousis averaged 11.7 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.0 steal and impressed the most cynical of Greek fans. He was the second leading scorer on the Hellas team during the Olympics, trailing behind [[Vassilis Spanoulis]]’ 14.3 and ahead of bigger names such as [[Antonis Fotsis]] (11) and [[Theodoros Papaloukas]] (8.8). Boroussis was also second in rebounding after only Fotsis.
Bourousis played 154 174 games at the [[National Basketball Team|Greek squad]] and scored 1,452 644 points.
Bourousis is a four-time Greek All-star (2006-2009) and was named to the 2008-09 All-Euroleague First Team.
