{"id":497079,"date":"2026-05-16T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497079"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T16:06:27","slug":"olympiacos-bartzokas-explains-vezenkov-absence-we-did-not-want-to-risk-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-bartzokas-explains-vezenkov-absence-we-did-not-want-to-risk-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos&#8217; Bartzokas explains Vezenkov absence: \u201cWe did not want to risk him\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1145\"><strong data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1053\">Sasha Vezenkov<\/strong> did not play for Olympiacos in the road win over Kolossos Rhodes due to a minor calf issue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1147\" data-end=\"1335\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1175\">Georgios Bartzokas<\/strong> explained that the player felt discomfort in the gastrocnemius, despite practicing normally the previous day. The staff therefore decided not to take any risk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1526\">\u201cVezenkov had a small discomfort in the gastrocnemius. He practiced normally yesterday, but because it persisted and it is a tricky area, we preferred not to risk anything,\u201d Bartzokas said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1528\" data-end=\"1687\">The coach added that Vezenkov could have played and will practice normally. <strong data-start=\"1604\" data-end=\"1618\">Olympiacos<\/strong> now turns its focus to the EuroLeague Final Four against Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1804\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasha Vezenkov did not play for Olympiacos in the road win over Kolossos Rhodes due to a minor calf issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":487452,"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":[82,54],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[22],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-grecia","typology-infortunio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Sasha-Vezenkov-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497079","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=497079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497079"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497079"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497079"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}