{"id":457932,"date":"2025-09-02T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=457932"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:13:55","slug":"goran-grbovic-euroleague-will-collapse-with-the-nba-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/goran-grbovic-euroleague-will-collapse-with-the-nba-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran Grbovic: EuroLeague will collapse with the NBA arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1028\" data-end=\"1238\">Former Partizan player and current <strong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1099\">Belgrade Arena CEO Goran Grbovic<\/strong> strongly criticized the <strong data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1138\">EuroLeague<\/strong> management, pointing to money-driven decisions such as awarding the 2025 Final Four to Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1443\">Grbovic argued that the competition \u201clacks clear leadership,\u201d divided between <strong data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1344\">ECA, IMG and the clubs<\/strong>, while also blasting Panathinaikos owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos for influencing the Athens bid.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1611\">He issued a stark warning for the future: \u201cWhen the <strong data-start=\"1497\" data-end=\"1504\">NBA<\/strong> presents a global plan, EuroLeague will collapse. Two teams could even join the NBA Eastern Conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1613\" data-end=\"1660\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/baloncesto\/euroliga\/la-euroliga-sufrira-un-colapso-con-la-llegada-de-la-nba-n\/\"><em data-start=\"1613\" data-end=\"1632\">Source: AS<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Partizan player and current Belgrade Arena CEO Goran Grbovic strongly criticized the EuroLeague management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":435315,"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":[199,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-457932","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\/2025\/03\/NBA-Europe.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457932","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=457932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457932"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=457932"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=457932"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=457932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}