Calathes about Lekavicius: "It scoop in my career years" / News

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Nick Calathes is one of the best basketball players in the Euroleague, but during his training, his main headache is a little boy from Lithuania. Speaking on Joe Arlaucco's Crossover podcast, Calathes revealed that Lukas Lekavicius was diverting his energy from his mind.

"He will drive me away," laughed Calathes, a Greek and American citizen. – It will definitely go through one of my career years. Every day, I have to defend it. "

Calathes is 198 cm tall, 18 cm taller than the Lekavits and is the main focus of the Panathinaikos game in Athens. For the second year in a row, Lekavicius is his sponsor in the Greek capital's team. They must therefore wear them during their training sessions.

Calathes emigrated to Europe at the age of 20 when he received the proposal from Panathinaikos. He was in the Greek club for his roots – the grandmother of Calathes was born and raised in Greece, then emigrated to the United States.

At that time, Calathes' brother, Pat, was playing at that time. Their surname, of course, translates from Greek into a "bag".

However, before his arrival in Greece, Nick Calathes revealed that he had no idea of ​​the situation of the European countries.

"I would not have been able to show on the map where Spain or Serbia is located.I was 20 years old and – I will be open – I did not go to the lessons of the year. history, – said Calathes – we go to Kaunas Where? Lithuania agree I come with shorts and shirts and there is a cold and cold snow.I realized that I n & # 39; I did not realize what I was doing. "

He added that the old "typical Americans" who came to Europe not only did not know the location of the countries, but also did not imagine what people would have to work with. And the Panathinaikos team was very powerful at that time – Calathes entered the championship defense club.

"I thought I was coming to play, a typical American thought," said Calathes. – And here's Spanoul, Diamantid, Shar, Drew Nicholas. I have hardly played this season. It was difficult, I really wondered if it was the right decision to take here. "

Calathes then fell into the hands of the legendary coach Željko Obradović. "The best of all time," said Calathes, a strategist from Serbia.

Joe Arlauk, head of podcasts, who followed the training at Panathinaikos, even compared the style of Calathes with that of Arvydas Sabonis during his training sessions.

"I saw that all members of the team were following what you would do, while waiting for the transfer. When I was playing with Saboni, the workouts were the same with him," he said. said Arlaukas, former member of Real Madrid Real Madrid's Sabo team.

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