For him Dominic Wilkins the martial atmosphere in his encounters Panathinaikou with him Olympic it was something foreign, as he states in the EuroLeague documentary about the “eternal” derbies. In fact, he describes his painful (literally) experience from his first derby in Greece..
“Panathinaikos and Olympiacos are big rivals. It was like going to war. When I went to my first game and we were warming up, the coins were raining. I remember they gave me a tear near the eye and my teammates were saying in the dressing room ‘OK, it’s a tradition’. And I answered them, ‘your delivery caused me to bleed’. After a while I got used to it. People were constantly in the cheetah“, recalls the legendary NBA star.
“We had an amazing team. Winning the Euroleague is something I will never forget. The Greek fans took over Paris, there was tremendous energy and we knew we were going to win. We have been waiting for it for a long time, it was the first such trophy in the history of Greece“, he said of the triumph in Paris in 1996.
In the same documentary he also speaks Mike Baptiste. “The games with Olympiakos were very special. These matches can make or break you as a player or as a team“, said the legend of Panathinaikos.
Source: Sport Fm
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