Panathinaikos head coach Ergin Atama: “If you took out one star player from these NBA teams, I believe that many EuroLeague teams can beat the NBA teams.”

Source: https://www.basketball.com.au/news/panathinaikos-euroleague-coach-ergin-atamans-challenge-to-nba-to-beat-euroleague-champions-to-claim-to-be-world-champions

Full quote:

“If you took out one star player from these NBA teams, I believe that many EuroLeague teams can beat the NBA teams.

Listen, I believe that two years or three years ago, in the pre-season, there were many games between the EuroLeague teams and NBA teams. If I’m not wrong, 70 or 80% of the games, the EuroLeague teams won.

There is no big difference between the NBA teams and between the EuroLeague teams.

With all due respect with the NBA, they have many star players, they are really star players, like LeBron, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and most of them if you took out one of them, a lot of EuroLeague teams would win.”

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