{"id":103355,"date":"2025-08-29T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103355\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:28:08","slug":"greece-takes-on-italy-in-its-eurobasket-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103355\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece takes on Italy in its EuroBasket opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/intime-nationalteam_basketball.jpg?v=1756376744\" alt=\"Greece takes on Italy in its EuroBasket opener\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/intime-nationalteam_basketball-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>Greece tips off its EuroBasket campaign on Thursday night against Italy in Group C action in Cyprus, with play starting at 9.30 p.m. local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The national team has set its sights first on securing qualification before pushing for the best possible finish in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The squad has been in Cyprus since Tuesday, training at the Spyros Kyprianou Sports Center, which is expected to be sold out for the opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The matchup comes just days after Greece edged Italy 76-74 at the Aegean Acropolis tournament in Athens, a game both sides played without several stars.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be broadcast by state-run ERT and subscription platform Nova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] Greece tips off its EuroBasket campaign on Thursday night against Italy in Group C action in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-103355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}