{"id":509398,"date":"2026-08-11T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509398"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:36:26","slug":"greece-announce-17-man-squad-without-giannis-antetokounmpo-for-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/greece-announce-17-man-squad-without-giannis-antetokounmpo-for-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Announce 17-Man Squad Without Giannis Antetokounmpo for FIBA World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preparation of the Greek men&#8217;s national team ahead of the next two FIBA World Cup qualifying games will begin on Friday, August 14.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase will see Greece face Ukraine in Riga on August 28 at 7:00 p.m. and Spain at the T-Center on August 31 at 7:00 p.m. Vassilis Spanoulis&#8217; team will enter the second phase with a 3-3 record carried over from the first phase.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek head coach has called up 17 players for the training camp. The preparation schedule also includes two friendly games at the T-Center: Greece will face Poland on August 22 and Cyprus on August 24.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo is notably absent from the squad, with the Greek Basketball Federation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basket.gr\/main-slider\/ethniki-andron-me-17-paiktes-archizei-i-pr\/187066\/\">clarifying that<\/a> his absence is not related to insurance issues.<\/p>\n<p>The forward moved from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Miami Heat during the offseason and has decided to remain in Miami to focus on preparing for the upcoming NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>The full squad is listed below. Kostas Sloukas is also absent, while Nick Calathes returns to the national team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-509396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/ethnikiauyg26graf-1024x640-1.webp\" alt=\"grecia nazionale\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/ethnikiauyg26graf-1024x640-1.webp 1024w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/ethnikiauyg26graf-1024x640-1.webp?resize=300,188 300w, https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/ethnikiauyg26graf-1024x640-1.webp?resize=768,480 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece will face Ukraine in Riga on August 28. and Spain at the T-Center on August 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":509397,"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":[102],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/ethnikiauyg26graf-1024x640-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509398","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509398"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509398"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509398"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}