# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kostas-papanikolaou
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:13:19.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kostas-papanikolaou"
name: "Kostas Papanikolaou"
slug: "kostas-papanikolaou"
description: "Konstantinos \"Kostas\" Papanikolaou, nicknamed \"Air Pap\", is a Greek professional basketball player and the team captain for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.04 m, he plays at the small forward position. He is widely considered among the best defensive players in European basketball."
tagline: "Greek basketball player (born 1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2022-03-10_ALBA_Berlin_gegen_Olympiacos_Piraeus_(EuroLeague_2021-22)_by_Sandro_Halank%E2%80%93062.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1990-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.61077466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kostaspapanikolaou.com"
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    title: "Kostas Papanikolaou"
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    title: "Kostas Papanikolau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kostas Papanikolaou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Папаниколау, Костас"
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    title: "Костас Папаниколау"
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    title: "Kostas Papanikolaou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump