{"id":436538,"date":"2025-04-04T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=436538"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:19:22","slug":"dimitris-itoudis-pushes-for-euroleague-expansion-time-to-grow-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dimitris-itoudis-pushes-for-euroleague-expansion-time-to-grow-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Itoudis pushes for EuroLeague expansion: Time to grow the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1695\"><strong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1376\">Dimitris Itoudis<\/strong>, coach of <strong data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1406\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> and president of the <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1461\">EuroLeague Head Coaches Board<\/strong>, believes the time is right for the <strong data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1522\">EuroLeague to expand<\/strong>. Speaking on the Greek federation\u2019s web radio, he said: \u201cWe need more teams, more games, and a new structure. The Play-In format worked well and shows it\u2019s time to evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1885\">Itoudis praised <strong data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1734\">owner Ofer Yannay<\/strong>, who brought him back midseason: \u201cHis passion and commitment convinced me to return early. We need to listen to people ready to invest in basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1887\" data-end=\"2075\">Looking ahead to the <strong data-start=\"1908\" data-end=\"1946\">EuroCup Final against Gran Canaria<\/strong>, Itoudis said: \u201cThey\u2019re very strong, but to win the title, you must beat the best. Our team has changed a lot, and we\u2019re ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"2077\" data-end=\"2143\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurocup\/1807652\/dimitris-itoudis-its-time-for-the-euroleague-expansion\/\"><strong data-start=\"2077\" data-end=\"2100\">Source: <em data-start=\"2087\" data-end=\"2098\">Eurohoops<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1102\" data-end=\"1173\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hapoel Tel Aviv coach urges change and praises the club\u2019s owner ahead of the EuroCup Finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":348229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-436538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/SCR0466-1024x683-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436538","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436538"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=436538"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=436538"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=436538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}