Nick Galis, the best basketball player to set foot on a court in Greece turned 66 and FIBA’s official Twitter account posted a video with some special highlights captioned “No better way to celebrate the 66th birthday of the “The Gangster” than with his UNREAL full highlights from #EuroBasket 1987  Happy Birthday Nick Galis

No better way to celebrate the 66th birthday of the “The Gangster” than with his UNREAL full highlights from #EuroBasket 1987 ???

Happy Birthday Nick Galis pic.twitter.com/OEzuIr8yG2

— FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) July 23, 2023

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Galis, who during his playing days was nicknamed, “Nick The Greek”, “The Gangster”, and “The Iron Man”, is widely regarded as Europe’s greatest scorer to ever play the game, and as one of the all-time greatest players in FIBA international basketball history.

In 1991, Galis was named one of FIBA’s 50 Greatest Players. In 2007, he became an inaugural member of the FIBA Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors. In 2017, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.