{"id":439907,"date":"2025-04-29T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=439907"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:23:32","slug":"dimitris-itoudis-euroleague-must-combine-european-and-american-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dimitris-itoudis-euroleague-must-combine-european-and-american-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Itoudis: EuroLeague must combine European and American experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1338\" data-end=\"1552\">Dimitris <strong data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1373\">Itoudis<\/strong>, fresh off winning the <strong data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1408\">EuroCup<\/strong> with Hapoel Tel Aviv, shared his views on basketball\u2019s future. &#8220;We are mature enough to expand the EuroLeague to 20, 22, or 24 teams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1744\">The coach emphasized merging the &#8220;knowledge and experience&#8221; of NBA and <strong data-start=\"1625\" data-end=\"1639\">EuroLeague<\/strong>. As president of the EuroLeague Coaches Board, he promotes stable three- and five-year investment plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1746\" data-end=\"1900\">Finally, he praised Jokic, Doncic, and Antetokounmpo as proof of Europe&#8217;s talent. &#8220;Serious people are ready to invest and help EuroLeague grow,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"978\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1818096\/dimitris-itoudis-talks-nba-europe-euroleague-hapoel-tel-aviv\/\"><em data-start=\"960\" data-end=\"978\">Source: Eurohoops<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Itoudis discussed EuroLeague expansion and the need to integrate NBA and European basketball models<\/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":[82,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-439907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"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\/439907","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=439907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439907\/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=439907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439907"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=439907"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=439907"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=439907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}