{"id":164433,"date":"2020-08-05T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=164433"},"modified":"2020-08-05T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:09:30","slug":"turkish-airlines-euroleague-launches-were-back-preseason-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/turkish-airlines-euroleague-launches-were-back-preseason-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines EuroLeague launches We&#8217;re back Preseason Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been waiting a long time and it hasn&#8217;t been easy, but now we&#8217;ve got some great news for you. The wait for the best basketball in Europe just got shorter. Get ready for the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague <strong>WE&#8217;RE BACK PRESEASON TOUR<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Euroleague Basketball will welcome elite basketball back to the continent by organizing a pair of preseason tournaments featuring some of the best EuroLeague clubs as the coaches and players fine-tune their games ahead of the regular season tip-off on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>The first event will be at Zalgirio Arena in Kaunas, Lithuania, on September 12-13, 2020, featuring AX Armani Exchange Milan, Panathinaikos OPAP Athens, Anadolu Efes Istanbul and host Zalgiris Kaunas. Then the attention moves to La Fonteta in Valencia, Spain, where on September 15-16, 2020, FC Bayern Munich, Olympiacos Piraeus, LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne and Valencia Basket will contend for a preseason title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know how much our devoted fans have missed the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. I can assure everyone that the EuroLeague has missed the fans, too,&#8221; Euroleague Basketball President and CEO Jordi Bertomeu said. &#8220;The <strong>WE&#8217;RE BACK PRESEASON TOUR <\/strong>not only shortens everyone&#8217;s wait for top-level game, but will also give players, staff, teams and us as a league a chance to prepare as necessary for the official games in October. Everybody wins with these two tournaments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both tournaments will feature two days of two games with the semifinals on the first day followed by the third-place and championship games the next day. Mark your calendars, because we&#8217;re coming back sooner than expected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euroleague Basketball will welcome elite basketball back to the continent by organizing a pair of preseason tournaments featuring some of the best EuroLeague clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-164433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164433"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=164433"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=164433"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=164433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}