Club career Stavropoulos began his
club playing career with the Greek club
Gymnastikos S. Larissas, in 1975. He was transferred to
PAOK Thessaloniki in 1983, for the amount of 10 million Greek drachmas, which was the highest amount for a player transfer fee in the league's history to that point in time. With PAOK, Stavropoulos won the
Greek Cup title in 1984, in which he was the
Greek Cup Finals Top Scorer without 25 points. With PAOK, he also won the European-wide secondary level
FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup (Saporta Cup) championship in the
1990–91 season, and played in the same competition's final in the
1991–92 season. He also won the
Greek League championship with PAOK in 1992. After he left PAOK, he finished his playing career with the Greek club
Iraklis Thessaloniki.
National team career Stavropoulos was also a long-time member of the senior men's
Greek National Basketball Team. With Greece, he played at the
1983 EuroBasket, the 1984 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and at the
1986 FIBA World Championship. Ηe was also a member of the Greek national squad that won the gold medal at the
1987 EuroBasket, while playing alongside such European basketball legends as
Panagiotis Giannakis,
Panagiotis Fasoulas,
Fanis Christodoulou, and
Nikos Galis. In total, he played in 102
games with Greece, and averaged 5.2
points per game. ==Coaching career==