{"id":495073,"date":"2026-05-01T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495073"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:02:50","slug":"panathinaikos-owner-dimitris-giannakopoulos-could-be-banned-from-athens-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-owner-dimitris-giannakopoulos-could-be-banned-from-athens-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos owner Dimitris Giannakopoulos could be banned from Athens Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1593\"><strong data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1379\">Dimitris Giannakopoulos<\/strong> is once again at the center of EuroLeague controversy. The <strong data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1456\">Panathinaikos<\/strong> owner could face sanctions following Thursday night\u2019s incidents in Valencia during Game 2 of the playoff series against Valencia Basket.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1810\">According to <em data-start=\"1608\" data-end=\"1619\">Eurohoops<\/em>, the events are being reviewed by the authorities and could lead to a punishment similar to the one he received after last year\u2019s Final Four in Abu Dhabi, when he was handed a five-game ban.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"2057\">A potential ban would prevent Giannakopoulos from attending the <strong data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1897\">Athens Final Four<\/strong>, set to be played at Panathinaikos\u2019 own arena. It would be a major institutional and symbolic blow for the Greek club as it chases its eighth EuroLeague title.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2222\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2070\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2082\">Eurohoops<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Giannakopoulos may face another EuroLeague sanction after the incidents in Valencia during the playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":495028,"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-495073","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\/05\/Valencia-Panathinaikos.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495073","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=495073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495073"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495073"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495073"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}