{"id":548565,"date":"2026-10-08T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=548565"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:22:17","slug":"olympiacos-reveal-details-on-lessort-surgery-amid-panathinaikos-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olympiacos-reveal-details-on-lessort-surgery-amid-panathinaikos-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympiacos reveal details on Lessort surgery amid Panathinaikos dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The long-running dispute between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos continues with another chapter. This time, the Reds have responded to their rivals\u2019 latest moves, revealing previously undisclosed details surrounding Mathias Lessort\u2019s surgery last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039a\u039f\u0399\u039d\u03a9\u03a3\u0397 \u03a4\u0397\u03a3 \u039a\u0391\u0395 \u039f\u039b\u03a5\u039c\u03a0\u0399\u0391\u039a\u039f\u03a3<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/OlympiacosBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympiacosBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/WeAreOlympiacos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreOlympiacos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TogetherWeFight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TogetherWeFight<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjwNXrNbxw\">https:\/\/t.co\/TjwNXrNbxw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Olympiacos B.C. (@Olympiacos_BC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Olympiacos_BC\/status\/2108250719484559379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We understand the obsession of Panathinaikos BC and its owner with Olympiacos and its members, but perhaps you could also find some time, between drafting your complaints, to inform your fans about something truly important concerning the health and career of one of your athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several months have passed since then, but your hatred for Olympiacos and its Presidents, in addition to clouding your judgment, seems to have affected your memory as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Olympiacos BC is informing the fans today about what happened last November regarding the health of basketball player Mathias Lessort and the surgery he underwent performed by renowned orthopedic surgeon Niek van Dijk, a close collaborator of our team and the personal physician of Mr. Giorgos Angelopoulos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panathinaikos BC, together with the French center and his representative, contacted Dutch professor Dr. Niek van Dijk to address the player\u2019s medical issue and were informed by him that he has an exclusive partnership with Olympiacos in Greece and could only treat Mathias Lessort with special authorization. The president of Panathinaikos BC contacted the vice president of Olympiacos BC and asked for our permission, while the player\u2019s representative did the same. Mr. Giorgos Angelopoulos immediately gave his approval and personally contacted Dr. Van Dijk to inform him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For us, the health of an athlete, as well as that of every fellow human being, both physical and mental, is non-negotiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With all the time you have available to draft unfounded complaints, you could also have found the time to write a brief thank-you for such a serious and delicate matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running dispute between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos continues with another chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":413955,"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":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/11\/Mathias-Lessort.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548565","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=548565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548566,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548565\/revisions\/548566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548565"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548565"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548565"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}