{"id":497600,"date":"2026-05-20T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497600"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:21:33","slug":"panathinaikos-ergin-ataman-close-to-exit-as-giannakopoulos-meeting-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/panathinaikos-ergin-ataman-close-to-exit-as-giannakopoulos-meeting-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Panathinaikos, Ergin Ataman close to exit as Giannakopoulos meeting looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1196\"><strong data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1056\">Ergin Ataman<\/strong> is reportedly close to the end of his time as <strong data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1126\">Panathinaikos AKTOR<\/strong> head coach after the EuroLeague playoff elimination against Valencia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1198\" data-end=\"1375\">According to <em data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1220\">Sport24<\/em>, the atmosphere around the Turkish coach has become heavier after the European setback, and the club could decide to move on before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1590\">It remains unclear who would lead Panathinaikos in the final stretch of the <strong data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1470\">Stoiximan GBL<\/strong>, with the semifinal against PAOK coming up. <strong data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1535\">Christos Serelis<\/strong> is one possible option, but all scenarios remain open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1780\">A meeting between <strong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1637\">Dimitris Giannakopoulos<\/strong> and Ataman is expected to discuss the coach\u2019s future. Ataman joined in 2023 and won one EuroLeague, one Greek league title and two Greek Cups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1782\" data-end=\"1910\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: <em data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1805\">Sport24, SDNA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ergin Ataman sarebbe vicino alla fine della sua esperienza sulla panchina del Panathinaikos AKTOR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":496760,"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":[199,249],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Ergin-Ataman.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497600","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=497600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497600"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497600"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497600"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}