Starting lineup five positions and is called the 2-1-2 lineup: In American college basketball, a starting lineup is announced for each team before the game. Starting players are designated as either centers, forwards, or guards. A team can name at most one center, but otherwise any combination of positions is allowable, as long as five players are named. Lineups of three guards, one forward, and one center, or of three guards and two forwards, are the most common alternate lineups. In Canadian football, a team starts with 12 players on offense, 12 players on defense, and a special teams squad of 12
Basketball in Greece in the NBA from 1988 to 1999, and also played with the senior men's United States national basketball team, was also raised and developed basketball-wise in Greece. The Greek players Kostas Papanikolaou and Georgios Papagiannis, have also played in the NBA. Anastasia Kostaki and Evanthia Maltsi are female Greek professional basketball players that have played in the WNBA. This is a list of the basketball players that have won the most championships over the years in the men's 1st-tier level Greek League. On a daily basis, 16 newspapers in the country of Greece publish what is happening in the sport