Vassilis Spanoulis

Vassilis Spanoulis (Greek: Βασίλης Σπανούλης), also commonly known as Bill Spanoulis (Greek: Μπιλ Σπανούλης), or Kill Bill (Greek: Μπίλλυ Σπανούλης; born 7 August 1982) is a Greek former professional basketball player who is currently the head coach of the senior men's Greek national team. He was the head coach of AS Monaco from 2024 until March 2026, when the club and Spanoulis mutually agreed to part ways. In the sport of basketball, his signature move is a cut originating from under the rim where the player moves up the floor to receive a handoff from another player, which is commonly known as "Spanoulis Action", "The Spanoulis System", or simply "Spanoulis". During his pro playing career, at a height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall, and a weight of 212 lb (96 kg), Spanoulis played as a point guard-shooting guard, and was nicknamed Kill Bill, V-Span, Greek Thunder, and MVP ("Most Vassilis Player"). Spanoulis was named the Balkan Athlete of the Year in 2009, the Eurobasket Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013, the International Sports Prize's World Athlete of the Year in 2013, and the EuroLeague MVP the same year. He earned a record eight All-EuroLeague Team selections and was voted the EuroLeague's 2010–2020 Player of the Decade. Spanoulis retired as the EuroLeague's all-time career leader in assists and total points scored. In 2025, Spanoulis was voted The Greatest of All Time (GOAT) Athlete in the 100-year history of Olympiacos Piraeus CFP, which is the multi-sport club with the most championships won in sports history, with over 300 awards. During his professional club playing career, on the international level, Spanoulis was a FIBA World Club Championship champion, a European Triple Crown winner, a three-time EuroLeague champion and five-time EuroLeague finalist, and a

EuroLeague under-18 Next Generation Select team
After he retired from playing professional club basketball, Spanoulis began a new career, working as a basketball coach, in 2021. He began his coaching career, working as the head coach of the EuroLeague under-18 Next Generation Select team. Spanoulis led the under-18 Next Generation Select team to the EuroLeague under-18 Next Generation tournament's 2021–22 season finals, where they lost to Mega Basket's Under-18 team, by a score of 82–61.

Peristeri Athens

2022–23 season
On 24 June 2022, Spanoulis was officially announced as the new head coach of the Greek Basket League and FIBA Champions League club Peristeri Athens. In his first season as Peristeri's head coach, Spanoulis led the club to its first-ever finals appearance in the Greek Cup competition, as they made it to the title game of the Greek Cup 2022–23. However, they lost in the finals to the EuroLeague club Olympiacos Piraeus.
In the Greek Basket League's 2022–23 season, Spanoulis led the team to a third-place overall finish in the league. In the league's playoffs, Peristeri defeated the FIBA Champions League club AEK Athens, with a 2–0 sweep in their first round best-of-three series. They then proceeded to lose 3–2 in their best-of-five semifinals series against the EuroLeague club Panathinaikos Athens. Peristeri then finished their season by sweeping the FIBA Champions League club PAOK Thessaloniki 3–0, in the league's third-place series. During the entire Greek Basket League season (regular season and playoffs), Peristeri managed to beat the Greek EuroLeague club Panathinaikos, three times in seven games, with one of their four losses against Panathinaikos coming by just one point.
In European-wide competition, Peristeri was eliminated by the French Pro A League club JDA Dijon, by a series score of 2–1, in the play-ins of the FIBA Champions League 2022–23 season.

2023–24 season
In the 2023 edition of the Greek Super Cup competition, Peristeri was eliminated by the Greek EuroLeague club Olympiacos Piraeus, in the semifinals, by a score of 84–64. In the 2023–24 edition of the Greek Cup competition, Peristeri was once again eliminated by Olympiacos, as they lost in the quarterfinals, by a score of 87–68.
In the 2023–24 FIBA Champions League season, Peristeri qualified for the 2024 FIBA Champions League Final Four. In the semifinals, Peristeri was knocked out of the Final Four tournament, after a 97–94 defeat to the Spanish ACB League club Tenerife. Ultimately, Peristeri finished in fourth place in the FIBA Champions League season, after they lost the bronze medal game against the Spanish ACB League club UCAM Murcia, by a score of 87–84. Spanoulis was named the FIBA Champions League's Best Coach of the Season.

"To play against him [Spanoulis], and then understand that as a coach, he has the same attention to details...his name is Kill Bill for a reason, and he has the same mentality as a coach. He holds everybody accountable, he holds himself accountable. The amount of information you can get from him, from just a two-minute conversation, it's unbelievable. I've never seen it before. He can be walking next to you, and in those two minutes, you're getting so much energy, and so much knowledge, in two minutes."

AS Monaco

On 27 November 2024, AS Monaco, of France's top-tier level LNB Pro A and the EuroLeague, signed Spanoulis to be their new head coach, on a two-year contract. In his very first season as the club's head coach, Spanoulis led Monaco to the 2025 EuroLeague Final Four, by eliminating Barcelona with a 3-2 series win in the playoffs of the EuroLeague 2024–25 season. In the Final Four, Monaco defeated Olympiacos in the semifinals but lost in the final to Fenerbahçe Beko. In the French Championship, Monaco lost the title to Paris in the fifth game of the series.
Spanoulis stepped down as Monaco coach in the middle of the 2025-2026 season, after a series of financial problems affecting t