Efes tries to salvage the season in the Turkish league after the disaster of missing out on the Euroleague playoff. Aroma in exchange for the cycle in the European champion of the last two seasonsa team that will lose its leader, the very particular coach Ergin Ataman. With an agreement basically closed with Panathinaikos, Ataman wants to say goodbye with another title of the team he has led to the top of European basketball in recent years.
But the Istanbul team He is having many problems in what has been a very complicated season. One of them, the car accident involving center Bryant Dunston, who at least can be on the bench with his teammates after the mishap. Ataman celebrated: “His presence at the game encouraged his friends, he was able to be there despite the fact that he suffered a very serious accident and has injuries to his hands. He is physically fine, now he is trying to overcome them emotionally as well.
Another recent misfortune came with the heart problem suffered by power forward Chris Singleton, who luckily has also been discharged from the hospital: “He gave us a huge scare. After two days of tests and examinations, we have been assured that there was no heart attack.. That what you have is an inflammation in the pericardium. He has already been able to leave the hospital, but he is going to spend a good season without being able to play basketball.
Ataman assures that these two complicated problems add to what is turning out to be a very complex season for Efes: “If we reach the final of the League, maybe Chris can play. The doctors say that he has to be off work for at least a month. They have been two tremendous scares, we have been through a lot this season. It’s like we’ve been given an evil eye. I don’t really believe in all of that, but it seems clear if you look at everything that has happened to us this season. Let us hope that at least these two misfortunes have been the last”.
