{"id":440398,"date":"2025-05-02T21:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440398"},"modified":"2025-05-02T23:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:11:36","slug":"ergin-ataman-exits-game-4-early-points-to-efes-euroleague-banners-in-defiant-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-exits-game-4-early-points-to-efes-euroleague-banners-in-defiant-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman exits Game 4 early, points to Efes\u2019 EuroLeague banners in defiant gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1553\"><strong data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1185\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> stormed out of the <strong data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1238\">Basketball Development Center<\/strong> in Istanbul during <strong data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1268\">Game 4<\/strong> between <strong data-start=\"1277\" data-end=\"1303\">Efes and Panathinaikos<\/strong>, just <strong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1350\">16.6 seconds before the final buzzer<\/strong>. As the crowd booed following a controversial unsportsmanlike foul on <strong data-start=\"1421\" data-end=\"1435\">Cedi Osman<\/strong>, Ataman reacted by <strong data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1497\">pointing to the two EuroLeague banners<\/strong> he had helped the club win during his tenure with Efes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1723\">The move was seen as a direct message to the fans criticizing him. Ataman then left the court amidst heavy jeers, ending the night with a gesture loaded with symbolism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ergin Ataman just left the court before the game was over \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JC9QIZsIKq\">pic.twitter.com\/JC9QIZsIKq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasketNews_com\/status\/1918389920164438163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Yap\u0131lan &#8220;Ergin Ataman mola alsana&#8221; tezah\u00fcratlar\u0131n ard\u0131ndan Ergin Ataman trib\u00fcnlere tepki g\u00f6sterdi ve sahay\u0131 terk etti. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lJwWwohnGo\">pic.twitter.com\/lJwWwohnGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Can Peker Pekcan (@canpekerpekcan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/canpekerpekcan\/status\/1918388047189623071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to information gathered, it all stemmed from a slogan that the Efes fans copied from their hated Fenerbahce cousins of previous years (\u201ctake a time-out, Ergin\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing this, Ataman signalled for a time-out and then displayed the Efes coach&#8217;s banners. Ataman then left the court, saying he was stunned, and did not show up for the press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos coach Ergin Ataman left the court with 16.6 seconds remaining, responding to boos from Efes fans by referencing his back-to-back EuroLeague titles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440397,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/ataman1-full.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440398","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=440398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440398"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440398"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440398"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}