{"id":462077,"date":"2025-09-29T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=462077"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:39:29","slug":"euroleague-ceo-motiejunas-israeli-teams-suspension-possible-safety-comes-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-ceo-motiejunas-israeli-teams-suspension-possible-safety-comes-first\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague CEO Motiejunas: \u201cIsraeli teams suspension possible, safety comes first\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1410\"><strong data-start=\"1140\" data-end=\"1177\">EuroLeague CEO Paulius Motiejunas<\/strong> did not rule out suspending <strong data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1226\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1250\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> due to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. \u201cIt\u2019s a tough question, and we always try to avoid political ones,\u201d he admitted at a press conference in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1412\" data-end=\"1697\">Motiejunas stressed that EuroLeague will continue monitoring the situation while looking at decisions from other sports bodies: \u201cWith UEFA considering suspending Israel, of course, it matters. It doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll follow immediately, but once others react, we\u2019ll talk to the clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1903\">\u201cThe most important thing is the safety of the teams, the players, and the fans,\u201d Motiejunas concluded, noting Maccabi\u2019s historic role in EuroLeague and Hapoel\u2019s debut after winning last year\u2019s EuroCup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1905\" data-end=\"1971\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1905\" data-end=\"1925\">Source: BasketNews<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroLeague CEO Paulius Motiejunas did not rule out suspending Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv due to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":440187,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-462077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/Paulius-Motiejunas.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462077","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=462077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462077"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=462077"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=462077"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=462077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}