Basketball In Greece
The sport of basketball in Greece erupted with the win in the EuroBasket 1987 in Piraeus, which caused a basketball euphoria in the country. Since then, Greek national teams have achieved international success, causing Greece to join Russia, Serbia, Italy, Spain, and Lithuania, in the circle of the European basketball powers. In addition to the success of the senior men's Greek national basketball team in 1987, they won a gold medal at the EuroBasket 2005 and the silver medals at the EuroBasket 1989 and the 2006 FIBA World Championship, and the bronze medal at the EuroBasket 2009. At the men's professional club level, the Greek clubs have, at European Cup competitions, under FIBA Europe and ULEB, won 15 international pro club championships, as well as a 16th international pro club championship at the FIBA World Cup for Champion Clubs.
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)