{"id":464642,"date":"2025-10-15T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464642"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:09:21","slug":"jasikevicius-criticizes-fenerbahce-fans-over-euroleague-mafia-chants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jasikevicius-criticizes-fenerbahce-fans-over-euroleague-mafia-chants\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasikevicius criticizes Fenerbahce fans over \u2018EuroLeague Mafia\u2019 chants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1593\"><strong data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1361\">Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul<\/strong> dropped to 1\u20133 after a heavy <strong data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1427\">93\u201369 defeat to Dubai Basketball<\/strong>, their third straight loss. Coach <strong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1486\">Sarunas Jasikevicius<\/strong> apologized for the performance but warned supporters not to blame the referees for the team\u2019s struggles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1825\">\u201cChanting <em data-start=\"1605\" data-end=\"1623\">EuroLeague Mafia<\/em> when we are European champions is not right,\u201d Jasikevicius said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t mafia when we were playing well.\u201d The coach also defended <strong data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"1774\">Wade Baldwin<\/strong>, who received a technical foul late in the game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"2020\">Despite the poor start, <strong data-start=\"1851\" data-end=\"1865\">Fenerbahce<\/strong> plans to open talks with Jasikevicius for a contract extension. The Turkish champions will face <strong data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"1982\">FC Bayern Munich<\/strong> on Thursday, hoping to bounce back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lithuanian coach reacted after fans\u2019 chants in the home loss to Dubai, saying they must \u201cfocus on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":443409,"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-464642","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\/Grp3jf_XQAIcAEE.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464642","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=464642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464642"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464642"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464642"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}