 This season was the only one of his three NBA seasons in which he played in the playoffs; he averaged 6.3 points per game.That year, the Bob Pettit-led St. Louis Hawks (which also featured Tsioropoulos' ex-college teammate Hagan, who had been traded to the Hawks in the Bill Russell deal) defeated the Celtics in the NBA Finals.Tsioropoulos was a principal of Jefferson County High School, and later lived in Florida.