{"id":493216,"date":"2026-04-17T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493216"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:28:53","slug":"fenerbahce-hapoel-could-mean-a-e2-million-playoff-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fenerbahce-hapoel-could-mean-a-e2-million-playoff-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbahce-Hapoel could mean a \u20ac2 million playoff hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"2177\"><strong data-start=\"1842\" data-end=\"1856\">Fenerbahce<\/strong> are entering the <strong data-start=\"1874\" data-end=\"1888\">EuroLeague<\/strong> playoffs with a potentially major financial concern. According to <strong data-start=\"1955\" data-end=\"1969\">BasketNews<\/strong>, citing comments made by <strong data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2014\">Ibrahim Kutluay<\/strong> on <em data-start=\"2018\" data-end=\"2028\">S Sport+<\/em>, the Turkish club could lose around <strong data-start=\"2065\" data-end=\"2079\">\u20ac2 million<\/strong> if it ends up facing <strong data-start=\"2101\" data-end=\"2120\">Hapoel Tel Aviv<\/strong> in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2179\" data-end=\"2583\">The key issue is that such a series could require games to be played at a neutral venue outside T\u00fcrkiye, reducing both home-court advantage and related matchday revenue. BasketNews explained that the possible matchup depended on Round 38 results.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2179\" data-end=\"2583\">That would make it a two-fold problem for Fenerbahce: a tougher basketball scenario and the financial impact highlighted by Kutluay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Ibrahim Kutluay, a potential playoff series against Hapoel Tel Aviv could be costly for Fenerbahce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":489694,"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-493216","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\/03\/Saras-Jasikevicius-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493216","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=493216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493216"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493216"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493216"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}