{"id":495709,"date":"2026-05-06T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=495709"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:39:39","slug":"giannakopoulos-demands-respect-from-panathinaikos-fans-as-valencia-security-measures-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/giannakopoulos-demands-respect-from-panathinaikos-fans-as-valencia-security-measures-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannakopoulos demands respect from Panathinaikos fans as Valencia security measures increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1745\"><strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1608\">Dimitris Giannakopoulos<\/strong> sent a strong message to <strong data-start=\"1634\" data-end=\"1657\">Panathinaikos AKTOR<\/strong> fans ahead of EuroLeague Playoffs Game 3 against <strong data-start=\"1707\" data-end=\"1719\">Valencia<\/strong> at Telekom Center Athens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"2012\">The Greek club\u2019s owner, banned for three games by Euroleague Basketball after Game 2 incidents, demanded exemplary behavior from the crowd: \u201cTo be the biggest club in Europe is not only to win cups, but it is also to respect the opponent, whatever they come to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2340\">Tension remains high after what happened at Roig Arena: according to <strong data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2101\">\u00c0 Punt Esports<\/strong>, Panathinaikos installed protective barriers behind the OAKA benches for the game against Valencia. The club also urged fans to support the team \u201conly with their voice,\u201d avoiding provocations and any behavior that could lead to sanctions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ca\">\ud83c\udfc0 El <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paobcgr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Paobcgr<\/a> instal\u00b7la tanques protectores darrere de les banquetes de l&#8217;OAKA per al duel \ud83c\udd9a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valenciabasket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@valenciabasket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>El tercer partit de quarts de final de l&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroLeague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EuroLeague<\/a> arriba marcat per la tensi\u00f3 viscuda dijous passat al <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoigArena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RoigArena<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KbGcBCwvl2\">pic.twitter.com\/KbGcBCwvl2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u00c0 Punt Esports (@apuntesports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apuntesports\/status\/2051718807924732122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panathinaikos owner, currently serving a three-game ban, urged OAKA fans to show restraint ahead of Game 3 against Valencia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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-495709","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\/495709","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=495709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495709\/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=495709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495709"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=495709"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=495709"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=495709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}