Career
At a height of 1.93m (6 ft 4 in) tall, he was a point guard-shooting guard. In his professional career, Papanikolopoulos played with the following clubs: Near East, AEK Athens, Aris, Ionikos Newfoundland, Olympiacos, Gymnastikos South. Larissas, AEL, Teramo, Kolossos, Peristeri, Iraklis, Ilysiakos, Panelefsiniakos, and Ikaros Chalkidas. Papanikolopoulos played with Greece at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.
He also played with the senior men"s Greek national basketball team