{"id":548446,"date":"2026-10-08T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=548446"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:32:06","slug":"gence-bc-coach-accuses-fiba-after-five-players-allegedly-injured-in-elevator-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gence-bc-coach-accuses-fiba-after-five-players-allegedly-injured-in-elevator-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Gence BC coach accuses FIBA after five players allegedly injured in elevator accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00abMy guys fell three floors\u00bb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gence BC suffered a <strong>92-63<\/strong> loss to Esenler Erokspor in Istanbul in its opening Group C game of the FIBA Europe Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the game, however, head coach <strong>Martin Knezevic<\/strong> revealed details of an incident that allegedly occurred the previous night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Knezevic, <strong>five Gence players were injured after an elevator collapsed at the team&#8217;s hotel<\/strong>, with the players falling three floors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abMy guys fell three stories and are lucky to not have life-changing injuries,\u00bb Knezevic wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gence reportedly asked FIBA to postpone the game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-handler-delloggetto-incorporato wp-block-embed-handler-delloggetto-incorporato\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/martin.knezevic.50\/posts\/2356075958477218?ref=embed_post\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the coach, Gence asked <strong>FIBA to postpone the game<\/strong> following the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The request was reportedly denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knezevic then sarcastically addressed the decision after the loss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abNot surprised by the final score vs. Erokspor tonight, considering five of our players were injured in a collapsed elevator at the team hotel last night.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00abOh, and thank you to FIBA for ignoring our request to postpone this game with multiple players out. You guys are the best.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Only 10 Gence players saw the court<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gence had <strong>12 players registered<\/strong> for the game, but only 10 appeared on the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two players did not play at all, while <strong>Aydin Ibrahimov<\/strong> logged just <strong>2:09<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kobe Magee led Gence with <strong>16 points<\/strong>, while Latavious Mitchell added <strong>13 points and 7 rebounds<\/strong> and Brandon Ellington finished with <strong>11 points and 10 rebounds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erokspor wins comfortably<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esenler Erokspor dominated the game and opened its European campaign with a convincing 92-63 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kevin Yebo<\/strong> led the Turkish side with <strong>20 points and 11 rebounds<\/strong>, while veteran guard <strong>Errick McCollum<\/strong> added <strong>15 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Martin Knezevic has strongly criticized FIBA after claiming that five Gence BC players were injured in an elevator accident at the team hotel before Wednesday&#8217;s FIBA Europe Cup game against Esenler Erokspor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":548444,"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":[201],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiba-europe-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-08-alle-13.29.00.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548446","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\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548447,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548446\/revisions\/548447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548446"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548446"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548446"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}