Konstantinos Harissis
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Konstantinos "Kostas" Charissis (alternate spellings: Konstantinos Charisis, Kostas Charisis, Costas Charissis, Kostas Harisis, Costas Harisis, Kostas Harissis, Costas Harissis) is a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 professional basketball player. He is a 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) tall center
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

.

College career

Charissis played college basketball
College basketball
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 at USC
University of Southern California
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 with the USC Trojans from 1999 to 2003.

Pro career

Charissis began his professional career with AS Papagou
Papagou BC
AS Papagou BC or Papagos Athens BC, commonly known as Papagou BC, is a Greek professional basketball club, founded in the year 1966. The team is located in Papagou, Greece, which is a suburb of the city of Athens. The team's home arena is EAK Papagou, located approximately two miles away from...

 during the 1998-99 season. After playing 4 years of college basketball
College basketball
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 with the USC Trojans (1999-03), he joined Olympiacos Piraeus
Olympiacos BC
Olympiacos B.C. , also known simply as Olympiacos and Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional basketball club, part of Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. The basketball club, founded in 1931, is one of the most successful in Greece and a traditional powerhouse in European competitions...

 for the 2003-04 season. He then moved to Ilisiakos
Ilisiakos BC
Ilissiakos B.C. is a Greek professional basketball team that is located in Athens, Greece.-History:The parent athletic sports club was founded in 1927. The basketball team of Ilissiakos was established in 1968...

 for the 2004-05 season.

He spent the next two seasons with Olympiada Patras, and he spent the 2007-08 season with AEK Athens
AEK Athens BC
AEK BC , the Athletic Union of Constantinople, is a Greek professional sports basketball club based in Athens, Greece. The club was established in Athens in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War ....

. He joined Colossus Rhodes prior to the start of the 2008-09 season.

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