{"id":498281,"date":"2026-05-25T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=498281"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:58:45","slug":"shaq-mckissic-on-his-future-legacy-matters-more-than-money-as-he-praises-bartzokas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/shaq-mckissic-on-his-future-legacy-matters-more-than-money-as-he-praises-bartzokas\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq McKissic on his future: \u201cLegacy matters more than money\u201d as he praises Bartzokas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"2134\"><strong data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1834\">Shaq McKissic<\/strong> spoke to BasketNews after <strong data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"1883\">Olympiacos Piraeus<\/strong> won the <strong data-start=\"1892\" data-end=\"1906\">EuroLeague<\/strong> title by defeating <strong data-start=\"1926\" data-end=\"1941\">Real Madrid<\/strong> 92-85. The veteran guard pointed to sacrifice as the foundation of the team\u2019s success: \u201cA lot of players, at different stages, had to take a step back, but that is how you win a championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2136\" data-end=\"2453\">McKissic also credited <strong data-start=\"2159\" data-end=\"2181\">Georgios Bartzokas<\/strong>, revealing the special bond he shares with the Olympiacos coach. \u201cHearing that from the coach means a lot,\u201d he said, after explaining that Bartzokas told him he would always be welcome back. \u201cThat man has been through everything. Seeing him win this title is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2455\" data-end=\"2771\">As for his future, McKissic kept every option open. The 35-year-old, currently on an expiring contract, said his body feels great but that he is focused on enjoying the moment. \u201cI focused more on legacy and on being a very important instrument,\u201d he said, making it clear that Olympiacos means more to him than money.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2773\" data-end=\"2895\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympiacos veteran opened up after the EuroLeague title win over Real Madrid, highlighting sacrifice, team culture and his bond with the coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498280,"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":[134],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-498281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-grecia","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/Shaquielle-McKissic-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498281","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=498281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498281"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=498281"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=498281"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=498281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}