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So, what's for dinner ?
And this is NOT Greek site. It is LITHUANIAN site. This site is also a official media partner with the Euroleague as you can see here.
http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague...aborators/main
So don't start all your racist and ignorant crap in this thread.
Here is article.
http://www.talkbasket.net/blogs/san-...bourousis.html
There have been numerous reports in both the US and Greece that the NBA club the San Antonio Spurs are interested in signing the Greek center Ioannis Bourousis.
Here is some further info for all the American NBA fans.
Name: Ioannis Bourousis
Age: 25
Team: Olympiacos Piraeus
Position: C/F
Height: (2.15m) 7'1"
Wingspan: (2.26m) 7'5"
Weight: 127 kg (280 lbs)
NBA Comparison: Young Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Bourousis is an excellent pick and roll player that also has an excellent mid range jump shot. He has shooting range to the NBA 3 point line, but he usually shoots from 15-20 feet. He has been developing a post game recently. He is a strong defender in the lane and at the basket. He is a tremendous rebounding machine and a very good dunker.
He did not start playing basketball until he was 18 years old. Like Tim Duncan he began his athletic career as a swimmer, but he grew too big for the sport and just like Duncan because of this switched to basketball. The development of Bourousis since then has been quite impressive as every single year he is noticeably better than the previous year. This season he led the Euroleague in rebounding and he was the league's most efficient player per minute. He also led the Euroleague in PER. Those great stats led to the Houston Rockets GM and so-called "stats guru" Daryl Morey setting up a personal meeting with him. Bourousis was named the best center in the Euroleague, ahead of the highly touted and coveted Spurs draft pick Tiago Splitter.
At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, almost all NBA international scouts that were in attendance agreed and reported that Bourousis outplayed Chris Kaman, Luis Scola, and Yao Ming in the games in which he played against them.
So it is certainly true that Bourousis is a very serious NBA prospect. He is certainly already better than most starting centers in the NBA and he is improving every season. So with that out of the way let's get to the issue of if the Spurs can sign him or not.
Well, the Spurs have offered him a 4 year $12 million contract and some rumors indicate perhaps even more than that. Bourousis' current team, Olympiacos, will obviously offer him significantly more than that to keep him as it is one of the richest sports clubs in the world and currently the basketball department has a budget that is bigger than that of most NBA teams. So on the money side clearly Olympiacos wins.
However, there is also the issue of if Bourousis wants to play in the NBA or not. Well, for the last 2 years or so, Bourousis has constantly stated that he wants to play in the NBA and he has even several times stated that he will play in the NBA at some point. Obviously, that combined with the chance to start for the Spurs would give the Spurs a great chance to get him, even with the money difference.
One sticking point for the Spurs remains the Vassilis Spanoulis situation. Spanoulis is the star of the Greek National Basketball Team. He is the star player on the best team in the world that is not in the NBA, Panathinaikos Athens. Spanoulis this year was the MVP of the Euroleague playoffs and he was named the Player of the Year in the Greek A1 league, which is a premiere national domestic league in Europe.
Since the best Greek player and a true superstar in Europe in Spanoulis went to the NBA with the Houston Rockets and was summarily benched all season by the former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy, most all of the top Greek players have since been scared off by the NBA.
The Greek basketball stars Theo Papaloukas and Dimitris Diamantidis have both turned down full MLE NBA contract offers since then, both citing how Spanoulis was benched all year by an NBA coach that had told Spanoulis he does not like European players. So because of this, Bourousis, like all the other Greek national team stars is very worried about being treated the same way as Spanoulis was in the NBA.
To this issue, Spurs head coach Greg Popovich wants to meet Bourousis in person in San Antonio to discuss that very issue with him. Popovich would like to assure Bourousis that he will give him every chance to become the team's starting center. We will see in the next few days how this story plays out.
So, what's for dinner ?
Good lord, Greeks are pussies.The Greek basketball stars Theo Papaloukas and Dimitris Diamantidis have both turned down full MLE NBA contract offers since then, both citing how Spanoulis was benched all year by an NBA coach that had told Spanoulis he does not like European players. So because of this, Bourousis, like all the other Greek national team stars is very worried about being treated the same way as Spanoulis was in the NBA.
I thought he had already given Olympiacos Piraeus his word that he was staying?
NO. Bruno made that up on his own and somehow the site decided it was fact.
This BS article has been written by fake Greek himself.
That sounds about right
This BS article has been written by fake Greek himself.
It's not an article.
It's an anonymous blog no better than a post on this website.
Actually, it looks like several posts on this website cobbled together by someone in Arkansas.
Yeah, it is. On another message board (RealGM), fake Greek posted as an Olympiacos fan with "talkbasket" as screen name.
I don't know, this blog looks legit....
Also read:
-Olympiacos BC Has Offered Kobe 3x More Than The Lakers Have
-Olympiacos Prepared To Offer Kobe $60 Million
Where is the Guppie and his defensive rebuttal?
The fake great is a joke
Always owned
He did not start playing basketball until he was 18 years old. Like Tim Duncan he began his athletic career as a swimmer, but he grew too big for the sport and just like Duncan because of this switched to basketball.
didnt tim quit cuz a storm destroyed his pool...not cuz he wa too tall?
Why am I not surprised . . .
why are you so desperate for attention?
Well deserved, nonetheless.
Great. Houston again. First, they pilfer Scola. Now The Ghost of Rockets Past (Van Gundy) steps in between the Spurs and their latest international big man hope.
And, via trading Spanoulis to the Spurs in the Scola trade, they probably get some of the Spanoulis problem to rub off on the Spurs in the process. Scola -- the trade that keeps on giving.
Thanks Rockets.
lol, I just wanted to ask why he's been pinked.
from that same awesome, well-written and totally legit piece on Kobe's offer to join Olympiacos..
"Also, because Kobe may not be able to adjust to the Greek cuisine, he would in addition to the previously mentioned benefits also receive his own personal 5 star gourmet chef."
for some reason this made me think of the Simpsons episode where Wiggum reads "Homer J. Simpson" upside down and says to look in Greektown...and it turns out he's talking into his wallet.
This thread reminds me of the "Leave Britney Alone" youtube.
Duncan quit swimming because he "...grew too big for the sport...?" I could have sworn it had something to do with a hurricane, but there it is in black and white.
How do you 'grow too big' for swimming? Unless it involves tsunamis, I'm not sure.
Finally that fake greek bas got what was coming to him.. As Pink as p*ssy. How fitting.
Go yourself Jeff.
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