{"id":455211,"date":"2025-08-13T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=455211"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:32:51","slug":"slovenia-goran-dragic-against-coach-aleksander-sekulic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/slovenia-goran-dragic-against-coach-aleksander-sekulic\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia, Goran Dragic against coach Aleksander Sekulic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"119\">Goran Dragi\u0107 defended his brother Zoran after coach Aleksander Sekuli\u0107\u2019s decision not to take him to EuroBasket 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"708\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The choice by Slovenia\u2019s head coach Sekuli\u0107 not to bring Dragi\u0107 to what would probably have been his last European Championship had already prompted a strongly worded comment from Zoran\u2019s wife, Svetlana. &#8220;The &#8216;so-called coach&#8217; didn&#8217;t cross Zoran off the list. 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