Ataman lashed out at the fans.
“We compare the NBA with the EuroLeague and say the EuroLeague is the best league in the world, but this is not basketball. We come to do our job. 10,000 people are waiting for me in front of the locker room entrance. Then they swear for 40 minutes during the match. This is not basketball. I have never seen anything like this in the NBA. From now on, I will stop comparing the EuroLeague with the NBA. They insult the whole game. The referees, the commissioners, nobody does anything. OK, keep doing this.”
