{"id":495114,"date":"2026-05-01T20:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495114"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:19:54","slug":"euroleague-bans-dimitris-giannakopoulos-after-game-2-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-bans-dimitris-giannakopoulos-after-game-2-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroLeague bans Dimitris Giannakopoulos after Game 2 incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"852\">EuroLeague has sanctioned Dimitris Giannakopoulos, majority shareholder of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Panathinaikos BC AKTOR<\/span><\/span>, following incidents during Game 2 against <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Valencia Basket<\/span><\/span> in the 2025\u201326 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"852\">The Greek executive received a three-game ban from arenas where his team will play, along with a \u20ac10,000 fine. The league opened the case immediately after the game, relying on official reports and the scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"852\">EuroLeague reiterated its firm stance against behavior that may incite violence or harm its values, also announcing potential disciplinary code changes, including lifetime bans for serious violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panathinaikos majority owner handed three-game arena ban and \u20ac10,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":445566,"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-495114","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\/06\/DE5_6324.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495114","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495114"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495114"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495114"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}