The Boston Celtics are NBA champions. Panathinaikos, a Greek league team, is the EuroLeague champion.
If Panathinaikos head coach Ergin Ataman had it his way, his team would be welcoming the Celtics to Athens for the title of world champion.
Ataman made these comments to Rafine TV (h/t Eurohoops).
"After the Boston Celtics became the NBA champions, they tweeted, 'World Champion Boston.' The EuroLeague also tweeted, 'Beat this team first,' with our photo. They see themselves very highly. They want incredible numbers to come and play a game in Europe. You are not the world champion. If you want to get the world champion title, come and beat us, the EuroLeague champion. If you are so confident, I say come and beat us in OAKA."
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Any other team and I would say there’s no chance they even consider it, but with Joe Mazzulla I bet he’s thinking about it
It was so funny when the Celtics account tweeted that and there were a bunch of idiotic Europeans tweeting “AMERICAN champions” like a team with Kendrick nunn and Juancho HernanGomez as it’s best players is actually the best team in the world.