"High School Gyms" And "Barns" Of Greek League

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Since Jeff Van Gundy claim Greece ESAKE (HEBA) league plays in "barns" and most all NBA fans claim they play in "high school gyms" this is for you fucking idiots. Greek league is in very top in Europe for home stadiums.

This is home arena of both Panathinaikos Athens and Maroussi Athens teams capacity 20,000

It is also home of FIBA national team finals matches

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This is home arena of Olympiacos Piraeus team capacity 16,000 there is as can see by pictures with fans in arena a big seat expansion since pictures here without fans in arena was taken

http://stadia.gr/sef/sefnew9.jpg

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http://stadia.gr/sef/sefnew11.jpg

This is home arena of Panionios Nea Smyrni team capacity 15,000

It is also arena of FIBA national teams for semifinal matches

http://stadia.gr/hellinikon/hellinikon7.jpg

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http://stadia.gr/hellinikon/hellinikon9.jpg

This is new home arena of Panellinios GS team capacity 10,000 this is new arena to meet new Euroleague rules for 2010-11 season

http://stadia.gr/anoliossia/anoliossia5.jpg

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[Kill_Bill_Pana]

This is home arena of PAOK Thessaloniki team capacity 8,650 there is plans to increase it to 10,000 soon to meet new Euroleague rules for 2010-11 season

http://stadia.gr/paok/kleisto_paok10.jpg

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Paleo Faliro sports club arena capacity 8,500 - picture is when basketball court is down

http://stadia.gr/faliro/faliro8.jpg

Peristeri sports club arena capacity 8,500 - picture is when basketball court is down

http://stadia.gr/peristerinew/peristerinewworks6.jpg


This is home arena of AEK Athens team capacity in picture here was 5,200 and is 7,500 now

This arena is expanded in size from picture shown here but I cannot find new picture. All the empty space around the court was fill in with seats in current time.

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[Kill_Bill_Pana]

This is home arena of Aris Thessaloniki team in current time capacity 5,200

(After new arena of Aris Thessaloniki is built, which will be 16,000 capacity and will have better features than any NBA arena has now is completed then this arena will be new home arena of Iraklis Thessaloniki team.)

http://stadia.gr/alexandrio/alexandrio7.jpg

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This will be new home arena of Aris Thessaloniki team capacity 16,000 to meet new Euroleague arena standard rules for 2010-11 season. It will be the most expensive and modern indoor arena in whole continent of Europe. It will be built to level of very best NBA arenas. Cost will be $250 million just for arena construction itself. Does not even include land.

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Iraklio Crete team home arena capacity 5,500

This arena has also been almost double in size but cannot find new picture. All empty space around court has been fill in with seats. It is also the practice facility of Greek national team

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This is home arena of both AEL 1964 Larissa and Olympia Larissa teams
capacity 4,000 - plans is underway to increase it to 5,500 soon with seats around court so to meet new Eurocup rules for 2010-11 season

http://stadia.gr/larissa/larissa6.jpg


Olympiadas Patras team home arena capacity 4,150 - plans is underway to increase it to 5,500 soon with seats around court so to meet new Eurocup rules for 2010-11 season

http://stadia.gr/tofalos/kleisto_patras_tofalos3.jpg


Xanthi team home arena capacity 4,000+

This arena has also been expanded with seats in empty space around court

http://stadia.gr/xanthi-b/kleisto_xanthis8.JPG

http://stadia.gr/xanthi-b/kleisto_xanthis7.jpg

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Even also Olympiacos will be building a new arena to NBA features and with 20,000 capacity. The new arena of Aris is said to be better quality and features than any arena in all of NBA. It is said to be best indoor arena of any kind in all of Europe.

And Panionios arena and Panathinaikos arena is already to average NBA level for arenas. Once new Olympiacos arena is built Maroussi will have current arena of Olympiacos. This way Maroussi will not have share arena with Panathinaikos like they do now.

PAOK arena after expansion and remodel and new Panellinios arena are even in top tier of best basketball arenas in Europe.

[BRHornet45]

son I love the new luxury suites they have added as well. check out the one in the picture below. geez I hope our stars like Kobe, Paul, Lebron, etc. don't leave us!!!


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[Mr.Bottomtooth]

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[Thompson]

So... the reason they can't afford to pay their players is because they're pouring all their money into high school gymnasiums?

[Pistons < Spurs]

http://www.polyhomes.com/images/galleries/IMG_1825.jpg

[ClingingMars]

sorry, not high school gyms, they look like college gyms.

-Mars

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

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[mogrovejo]

They don't play in high school gyms, but in 90% of their games there are so few people on the stands that they could.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

sorry, not high school gyms, they look like college gyms.

-Mars

Panathinaikos/Maroussi and Panionios arena is above level of college arenas.

Panathinaikos/Maroussi arena (is really just Panathinaikos arena but they let Maroussi share it)

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Panionios arena

http://stadia.gr/hellinikon/hellinikon7.jpg

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[JamStone]

Those are super nice high school gyms.

[BRHornet45]

son what good does it do whenever you have no talent to play in them other than a few of our bench players???

[m33p0]

those are some big-ass barns.

[mogrovejo]

Size doesn't really matter that much.

For those like myself that enjoy rough environments, the best arena in the world to see a basketball game is the Pionir and the capacity isn't larger than 7.500 or so.

[Bob Lanier]

THIS IS MASSIVE LIE. THOSE PICTURE IS PHOTOSHOPPED. THOSE GYM IS REALLY TURKISH GYM FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL

[Bob Lanier]

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It's a real shame what they do to a perfectly functional squash court these days.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

Size doesn't really matter that much.

For those like myself that enjoy rough environments, the best arena in the world to see a basketball game is the Pionir and the capacity isn't larger than 7.500 or so.

Pionir (Partizan), OAKA (Panathinaikos), Alexandrio (Aris), and PAOK arena (PAOK) is best home courts ever.

But PAOK is best one of all. It is even scarier than Pionir.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

THIS IS MASSIVE LIE. THOSE PICTURE IS PHOTOSHOPPED. THOSE GYM IS REALLY TURKISH GYM FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL

Actual truth Turkey is working on build most of their arenas just now for 2010 World Championship.

[ChumpDumper]

So it only took Greeks eighty years to figure out they could put seats in the space around the court?

Sounds about right.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

So it only took Greeks eighty years to figure out they could put seats in the space around the court?

Sounds about right.

No Olympiacos arena was built in 1985. Olympiacos did not play there I think until 1991. And arena had seats around court. In 2004 arena was remodel and updated and made modern for Olympics. This was where volleyball tournament was held.

So seats around court are gone after this.

Capacity was original time 14,095 and then was made 12,171 after Olympics. Then Olympiacos built modern locker facilities for players (NBA level) and capacity was make down to 11,395.

But since then there is two new tiers of seats. It depend on what club wants because arena is also used as fair grounds of Athens and for track and field and other things. This is why court space is so huge.

So Olympiacos has two tiers of seats for they can add. For playoff games seats is add to make it 14,776 and for games of Greek championship against Panathinaikos seats is add to make it 16,000. But team cannot keep them there after games is over they must move them. Because arena is also for fair grounds and track. This is why in pictures when arena is empty is no seats near court and in ones where it is championships with PAO there is seats all over.

This is why Olympiacos wants build new arena that can be used just for them only. This way they could keep capacity always at 16,000 or more.

Reason why many other arenas not have seats around court and just in recent time start to do this or in coming next couple years is because of fans attacking players and coaches.

[ChumpDumper]

So it only took sixty years for Greeks to figure out they could put seats in the space around the court.

And the Greeks are too violent and boorish to actually let them sit there.

Sounds about right.

[BRHornet45]

sons I have never seen someone who is so obsessed with the capacity of high school gyms.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

So it only took sixty years for Greeks to figure out they could put seats in the space around the court.

And the Greeks are too violent and boorish to actually let them sit there.

Sounds about right.

Have you not notice the Plexiglas protectors around the courts? This is now what teams will be using. And will be much security and police around there now. So that with arenas getting expansions of seats around courts for new ULEB rules for capacities with fans this close to players and coaches should be OK.

You can see even the Plexiglas comes up very high and is curved so that the drinks and coins and rockets and fireworks and other things fans thrown will not hit the benches.

[YellowFever]

http://stadia.gr/xanthi-b/kleisto_xanthis7.jpg

Holy Cripes!

That looks just like my high school gym!

I'm not kidding.

[Bob Lanier]

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Pau Gasol screams as he is fouled going to the basket - not by the Greek players, who refused to play defense after not having been paid for the third consecutive week, but rather by irate fans. The arena's security python quickly rushes into the fray but seems frazzled, with little regard for order or even human life.

[monosylab1k]

Do they sell pig testicles and cow urine at the concession stands?

[Bob Lanier]

Do they sell them in Texas?

Prairie oysters, Bud Light, and a Mavs game sounds like heaven for some of all y'all.
http://www.brainspout.com/blog/images/mullet.jpg

[ClingingMars]

THIS IS MASSIVE LIE. THOSE PICTURE IS PHOTOSHOPPED. THOSE GYM IS REALLY TURKISH GYM FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL

:lmao

i mean some of those gyms are nice, but it's nothing you wouldn't see from your average BCS school.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

:lmao

i mean some of those gyms are nice, but it's nothing you wouldn't see from your average BCS school.

Panathinaikos arena is officially listed as largest indoor sports arena in the world. So I think you are wrong.

[ClingingMars]

Panathinaikos arena is officially listed as largest indoor sports arena in the world. So I think you are wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Dome


This is home arena of both Panathinaikos Athens and Maroussi Athens teams capacity 20,000

too easy.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

It is officially largest in the world. Seating capacity is not same as size. It is listed as world's biggest by Greek sports ministry, the builder (which builds NBA arenas), the Olympics committee and also even wikipedia if you must know.

Also stadia.gr and the arena's own site and PAO's site.

Largest free standing structure in the world.

[ChumpDumper]

We all know that just because a bunch of Greeks say it's the biggest, that doesn't make it true.

[Bob Lanier]

http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/hodges16.jpg

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

We all know that just because a bunch of Greeks say it's the biggest, that doesn't make it true.

The international Olympic committee is not a bunch of Greeks you dumbass.

[ChumpDumper]

They're corrupt and almost as bad liars as the Greeks.

[Bob Lanier]

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[ginobili's bald spot]

http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/hodges16.jpg


This greek man has biggest penis in world.

[mountainballer]

This is home arena of Kill_Bill_Pana's brain

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/MussakasMeMelitsanesKePatates01.JPG

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Do they sell pig testicles and cow urine at the concession stands?

:lmao

I wonder if the arena has running water since the area around it probably doesn't.

(I love making ignorant comments about Europe just to piss ignorant Eurofags off)

[Indazone]

http://www.eaw.com/frontrow/Baylor%20Ferrell%20Open%201.jpg

Baylor University Basketball Gym

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Creighton University Basketball Gym

http://www.nealis.info/images/butlergym.jpg

Butler University Basketball gym

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Stanford University Basketball Gym

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Seems like Greek basketball arenas are about same level of Div 1 borderline to Div II NCAA basketball arenas.

[ClingingMars]

It is officially largest in the world. Seating capacity is not same as size. It is listed as world's biggest by Greek sports ministry, the builder (which builds NBA arenas), the Olympics committee and also even wikipedia if you must know.

Also stadia.gr and the arena's own site and PAO's site.

Largest free standing structure in the world.

no one gives a flying fuck about how "big" it is, seating is what matters. not that they ever fill up anyway.

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

no one gives a flying fuck about how "big" it is, seating is what matters. not that they ever fill up anyway.

Twice it has been at full capacity of 20,000 for PAO games.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Twice it has been at full capacity of 20,000 for PAO games.

TWO sell outs!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!

[timvp]

Looks smokey. Greece doesn't believe in air ventilation?

[Kill Bill Pana]

Looks smokey. Greece doesn't believe in air ventilation?

No, Greek don't like Jew. Jew is liar.

[ChumpDumper]

Looks smokey. Greece doesn't believe in air ventilation?Hellas air is heavy with B.O. and lies.

[Bob Lanier]

Also gyros. I must say I wish the US used Greeks for their menial labor instead of Mexicans.

[m33p0]

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[Kill Bill Pana]

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My balls can't fit in their girl in my sig gave me STD that make balls fall off.

[Spursfan092120]

http://www.symnetaudio.com/graphics/Arena.jpg
Thompson Boling Arena..owns ANY Greek Stadium...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Frank_Erwin_Center_Basketball.JPG/400px-Frank_Erwin_Center_Basketball.JPG
Frank Erwin Center...home of the Texas Longhorns

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Bud Walton Arena..home of the Arkansas Razorbacks

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/71994740_7328188efe.jpg?v=0
Even the home of the University of Arkansas Little Rock is larger.

List of stadiums in order by capacity...Greece finally comes in at #84 with Athens Olympic Stadium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

You were saying?

[Kill_Bill_Pana]

http://www.symnetaudio.com/graphics/Arena.jpg
Thompson Boling Arena..owns ANY Greek Stadium...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Frank_Erwin_Center_Basketball.JPG/400px-Frank_Erwin_Center_Basketball.JPG
Frank Erwin Center...home of the Texas Longhorns

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/1570706423_bb2031e533.jpg?v=0
Bud Walton Arena..home of the Arkansas Razorbacks

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/71994740_7328188efe.jpg?v=0
Even the home of the University of Arkansas Little Rock is larger.

List of stadiums in order by capacity...Greece finally comes in at #84 with Athens Olympic Stadium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_by_capacity

You were saying?

Apparently USA is a POS for arenas base on your little list. You brag about be #1 and you are once again LIARS.

[Spursfan092120]

Apparently USA is a POS for arenas base on your little list. You brag about be #1 and you are once again LIARS.
LMAO..how's Arkansas? Are you freaking kidding me? POS? We've got 40 stadiums before Greek's first and only stadium in the whole damn list. But that's ok..because the University of Arkansas and UALR have large stadiums..lol...douchebag.