"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 ing 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




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







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

It is also arena of FIBA national teams for semifinal matches











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

[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






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



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




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.

[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.)







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.











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





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




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




Xanthi team home arena capacity 4,000+

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

[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!!!

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

[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]

[ClingingMars]

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

-Mars

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

[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)











Panionios arena

[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.