{"id":447276,"date":"2025-06-20T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447276"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:12:43","slug":"nikos-pappas-returns-to-panathinaikos-as-new-technical-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikos-pappas-returns-to-panathinaikos-as-new-technical-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikos Pappas returns to Panathinaikos as new technical director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1573\"><strong data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1395\">Nikos Pappas<\/strong> is rejoining <strong data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1426\">Panathinaikos<\/strong> as <em data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1450\">technical director<\/em>, replacing <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1480\">Sani Becirovic<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1484\" \/>He returns after three years working as an <strong data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1572\">international scout for the Chicago Bulls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1789\">Pappas previously spent eight years with the Greens in various roles, including under <strong data-start=\"1661\" data-end=\"1677\">Xavi Pascual<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1697\">Rick Pitino<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1701\" \/>He played a key role in bringing in young Greek talents like Samontourov and Mantzoukas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1791\" data-end=\"1929\">With a strong background in coaching and basketball management,<br data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1857\" \/>Pappas is expected to reinforce the club\u2019s identity and talent strategy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"1013\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.gr\/basketball\/euroleague\/2453116\/panathinaikos-poios-einai-o-nikos-pappas-poy-analambanei-technical\">Source Gazzetta.gr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Sani Becirovic\u2019s exit, Pappas is set to lead the club\u2019s basketball operations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":447275,"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":[82,54],"tags":[],"rumors":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-grecia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/nikos_pappas.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447276","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=447276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447276"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447276"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447276"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}