{"id":153722,"date":"2025-09-19T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:56:08","slug":"european-basketball-goes-down-under-ekathimerini-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/153722\/","title":{"rendered":"European basketball goes Down-Under | eKathimerini.com"},"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\/09\/4804887-scaled.jpg?v=1758259922\" alt=\"European basketball goes Down-Under\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4804887-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday launched a unique international basketball project targeting cities with significant Greek and Serbian communities with Panathinaikos BC defeating Partizan 91- 82 at John Cain Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pavlos Giannakopoulos Tournament honors the late Panathinaikos president, who died in 2018, while bringing European basketball rivalries to global diaspora communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organizers plan annual tournaments worldwide in similar locations.\u00a0Melbourne was selected for its large Greek and Serbian populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian city of Melbourne on Thursday launched a unique international basketball project targeting cities with significant Greek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,64267,102799,84,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-153722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-diaspora","12":"tag-panathinaikos","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153722","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=153722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}