{"id":445665,"date":"2025-06-09T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=445665"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:17:44","slug":"ergin-ataman-storms-out-of-press-conference-after-heated-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ergin-ataman-storms-out-of-press-conference-after-heated-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergin Ataman storms out of press conference after heated exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Game 4 of the Greek League Finals\u2014where Olympiacos defeated Panathinaikos AKTOR 85\u201371 to win the championship\u2014Ergin Ataman lost his temper during the post-game press conference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LlYdX0GvGvc?si=I9W3i9zeCzMQ8bnA&amp;start=295\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Panathinaikos coach was visibly upset when asked by a journalist to comment on and compare a gesture made months ago by Kendrick Nunn during a EuroLeague game against Olympiacos, with Evan Fournier\u2019s recent gesture towards Panathinaikos fans in Game 3 at the OAKA.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly offended, Ataman responded in a fiery tone:<br \/>\n\u201cIf you accept this kind of unsportsmanlike behavior from the Olympiacos player, go be a journalist in another field. I don\u2019t want to say which one. Vincent Poirier from Efes mentioned it. If you, as a journalist, accept what he did and compare it to Nunn\u2019s gesture, go do journalism elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then slammed his hand on the table and walked out of the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panathinaikos coach slams his hand on the table and walks out after a journalist\u2019s provocative question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":445664,"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":[54],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-445665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grecia","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/Ataman-7-1200x800-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445665","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=445665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445665"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=445665"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=445665"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=445665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}