{"id":481066,"date":"2026-01-27T16:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481066"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:14:48","slug":"maccabi-tel-aviv-respond-to-ataman-never-in-danger-extra-security-measures-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/maccabi-tel-aviv-respond-to-ataman-never-in-danger-extra-security-measures-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Maccabi Tel Aviv respond to Ataman: \u201cNever in danger\u201d, extra security measures taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1940\"><strong data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1644\">Maccabi Tel Aviv<\/strong> issued an official response to <strong data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1692\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> following the EuroLeague game in Tel Aviv against <strong data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1760\">Panathinaikos<\/strong>. Ataman described \u201cexceptional hostility\u201d from the bus arrival through departure, saying he was insulted for 40 minutes and adding: \u201cThis is not basketball. This is not a sport,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"2234\">In a statement to BasketNews, CEO <strong data-start=\"1976\" data-end=\"1991\">Avi Ben Tal<\/strong> said the club took additional steps to ensure Ataman could coach safely. Maccabi cited <strong data-start=\"2079\" data-end=\"2101\">12 security guards<\/strong> near him, <strong data-start=\"2112\" data-end=\"2126\">plexiglass<\/strong> installed behind Panathinaikos\u2019 bench, and stated that no incidents occurred while Ataman was in the arena.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2236\" data-end=\"2520\">Maccabi acknowledged offensive language from fans but framed it as a reaction to what it called Ataman\u2019s previous provocations, dating back to the 2023 playoffs. The club said Ataman was \u201cnever in danger\u201d and noted that many fans warmly welcomed <strong data-start=\"2482\" data-end=\"2500\">Omer Yurtseven<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2505\" data-end=\"2519\">Cedi Osman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2522\" data-end=\"2577\">\n<p data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1319\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-239791-maccabi-response-ergin-ataman-panathinaikos.html#google_vignette\"><em data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1270\">BasketNews<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club addresses claims about fan behavior during Panathinaikos\u2019 road game in Tel Aviv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":473828,"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-481066","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\/12\/IMG_2219.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481066","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=481066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481066"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481066"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481066"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}