" First game was against a team called Iraklis, and I think I scored 30 points, but it was a game where a lot of people had a lot of doubts, because when I was shooting the ball would go in and around and around and around and come out! I didn't have a great shooting percentage in this game. Some people said, wow what's this, this is who you said, Nick Galis ?      

At that time the general manager of the team, Anestis Petalidis, said, " be ware where you spit, because you gonna leak it up next time,  you gonna leak it up ! "

And yet Nikos Galis was particularly nervous in that game. First time in front of the Aris'  fans, with different rregulations than the ones he was used to, having to prove ... everything! The Aris - Iraklis game ended 79-78 with a stop by the newcomer Greek-American guard against Sakellariou ! After that, we would hardly remember the stops and the 30+ points would become a routine in the Emperor's jersey.

The Gangster's teammate Vangelis Alexandris would chide him, "you scored 30 points but you missed a lot of shots ".  "But where from did I miss ? " Nick Galis replied and when Alexandris showed him the spotts of his misses, Nick the Greek was disarming: "Do you really think I'm ever going to miss again?"

We all know the answer, as things developed exactly as the "prophet" Anestis Petalidis had said.