{"id":477700,"date":"2026-01-07T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477700"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:43:28","slug":"chima-moneke-on-referees-if-i-speak-theyll-take-my-whole-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/chima-moneke-on-referees-if-i-speak-theyll-take-my-whole-salary\/","title":{"rendered":"Chima Moneke on referees: \u201cIf I speak, they\u2019ll take my whole salary\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1699\"><strong data-start=\"1504\" data-end=\"1516\">Red Star<\/strong> suffered a heavy <strong data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1544\">106-89<\/strong> home loss to <strong data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1577\">Valencia Basket<\/strong>, missing key chances throughout the game.<br data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1622\" \/><strong data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1638\">Chima Moneke<\/strong> posted 15 points, 9 rebounds and led his team in efficiency.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1957\">Speaking afterward, Moneke highlighted Valencia\u2019s quality, calling them \u201c<strong data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1792\">a special team<\/strong>\u201d and stressing the defensive aspect.<br data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1832\" \/>\u201c<strong data-start=\"1833\" data-end=\"1873\">If you don\u2019t defend, they punish you<\/strong>,\u201d he said, also crediting coach <strong data-start=\"1906\" data-end=\"1924\">Pedro Martinez<\/strong>, whom he worked with in Manresa.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1959\" data-end=\"2170\">Moneke then addressed officiating with a sharp line: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2013\" data-end=\"2069\">If I say what I think, they\u2019ll take my entire salary<\/strong>\u201d.<br data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2074\" \/>Looking ahead to <strong data-start=\"2091\" data-end=\"2103\">Zalgiris<\/strong>, he added: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2168\">Every game is different, it always depends on us<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Red Star\u2019s loss to Valencia Basket, Chima Moneke breaks down the game and praises the opponent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":477699,"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-477700","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\/2026\/01\/Chima-Moneke-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477700","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=477700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477700"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477700"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477700"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}