Funny facts on Cypriot basketball championshipas a year and a half before hosting a EuroBasket 2025 group, a match never took place after a ruse hatched by two teams to avoid paying an extra monthly fee to players.
PAEK and Apollon they would face each other for the penultimate matchday of the regular season of the championship, with Apollon in 7th place and PAEK in 8th, however they would be tied on 25 points with ETHA, which is in the privileged 6th place, leading to the championship playoffs . The winning team would finish sixth and play in the extra round, which would oblige them to pay another month’s wages. And since none of the two teams wanted something like that, they found a trick so that… none of them would win!
The Apollon team went down to the court with seven basketball players and did not bring health cards to be checked by the referees, as is customary, before the game, while on the other hand PAEK, came down with five basketball players and also did not bring health cards with them for the game.
After this particular development, both the PAEEK team and the Apollon team were brought before the Sports Judge, who will meet to impose penalties, which may not be ruled out to be very heavy.
Source: Sport Fm
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