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'''Lazaros Papadopoulos''' is a retired [[Greeks|Greek]] [[basketball]] center.

Papadopoulos was born in Krasnodar, Russia, on [[June 3]], [[1980]]. After moving with his family to [[Thessaloniki]] in [[1990]], he started his basketball career at local club Stavroupolis in [[1995]]. In [[1997]], he moved up to [[Iraklis BC|Iraklis]] where he played for three seasons before joining [[Panathinaikos BC|Panathinaikos]]. 

Papadopoulos returned to [[Iraklis BC|Iraklis]] in [[2003]] and the following year joined Dinamo Moscow. After that Papadopoulos played for Real Madrid (Spain), Fortitudo Bologna (Italy), [[PAOK BC|PAOK]], Khimki (Russia), [[Olympiakos BC|Olympiakos]], again [[PAOK BC|PAOK]] and Canarias (Spain) before retiring in [[2014]]. Papadopoulos was winner of the Euro League with the Greens in [[2002]] and the Reds in [[2012]].

He has been capped 103 times by the [[National Basketball Team]] of [[Greece]], with 847 points to his credit. He was winner of Eurobasket [[2005]] and runner-up in the World Cup of [[2006]].


==Did you know?==
Lazaros Papadopoulos is an accomplished swimmer and chess player.

==External Links==
http://www.basket.gr/index.php/playerview?playerid=101

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[[Category:Basketball Players|Papadopoulos, Lazaros]]