Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv's star guard is Joe Arlauckas's latest guest on The Crossover as they talk about hoops and life

Lorenzo Brown hops aboard The Crossover

**Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv's star guard is Joe Arlauckas's latest guest on The Crossover as they talk about hoops and life**

[Lorenzo Brown](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/lorenzo-brown/009622/) is in the midst of his best Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season to date. The combo guard seems to have found a home with Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, which recently signed him to a three-year extension. Now at home on the Mediterranean coast in Israel, Brown spoke about his upbringing and the challenges along the way that led to him becoming a EuroLeague star. 

His path included going to a military academy for high school and changing positions after his first year of college. Brown continued to excel and shined in the G-League, where he was twice an all-star before being named 2018 MVP. Despite that, he never got his chance to play regularly in the NBA. And things didn't go so well in Europe, either.  

"When I first came overseas, I went to Russia, it was actually UNICS. I don’t know why but I failed a physical. There was something going on inside my body. They kind of told me I would never play ball again. They were like, ‘you might want to go back home and get checked out,’ “ Brown recalled. 

“So I go home and I’m sitting there for a month or two.  And I’m just sitting, I’m depressed. I’m like, ‘what am I gonna do now? ’ I’m like 25 maybe, 26. And I’m never gonna play basketball again.

“Long story short, it wasn’t what they were saying it was. And I ended up getting another job in China for two months and went on from there." 

That was in November 2016. Brown ended up back in North America and split the next two seasons between Toronto in the NBA and Raptors 905 in the G-League. After that, he decided to give Europe one more shot and that changed his career forever. 

Brown signed with Crvena Zvezda Belgrade for the 2019-20 season and, though he had an idea of what to expect, he was blown away by the crowd from the start. 

"Quincy Miller played in Red Star probably two years prior, and I’d seen a clip. And everybody is just yelling, they’re chanting. I’m just in awe at the situation. My first game is the same way. Every game is like that. So I’m just like, ‘yeah, I’m gonna love it here.’”

After that Brown spent a season with Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul and another with UNICS Kazan. In that time, he emerged as one of the top guards on the continent. Croatia had shown interest in naturalizing Brown to play for its national team, but he instead took Spanish citizenship and competed for that country at EuroBasket 2022 where he was a teammate of EuroLeague stars he had played against for years. 

"They showed me a picture and it was like all of them and they were sitting on a bus and they were like 12 \[years old\]. And I’m like, y’all have been playing together this long? And they’re like yeah, we’ve been at this for like plus amount of years. I’m like, okay, this is really it for y’all then, y’all want this this bad. It took me a while to click in and grasp what they were feeling."

Brown was a dominant force when Spain needed him; he averaged 20.3 points, 9 assists and 1.5 steals in the elimination games and was named to the all-tournament team. Then he started the season in Tel Aviv – his fourth home in as many seasons in the EuroLeague. 

With Maccabi, Brown has emerged as a team leader and he has the club knocking on the door of the playoffs and that's where he hopes to be over the next few years as this summer, for the first time in his career, Brown will head home to the United States knowing exactly where he is coming back to for the start of the next season.

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as Mike James, Nicolo Melli and Vasilije Micic, coaching greats such as Georgios Bartzokas, Dimitris Itoudis and Zeljko Obradovic, and legends like Theo Papaloukas, Nikola Vujcic and Mike Batiste, among others.

The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas is available on  [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rYpAbSLlCc), [iTunes](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-crossover-with-joe-arlauckas/id1440034922), [Audioboom](https://audioboom.com/channel/the-crossover-with-joe-arlauckas), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/6T1SYvGSpzyrYZpG9z2wjR), [Deezer](https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/65962), [RadioPublic](https://radiopublic.com/the-crossover-with-joe-arlauckas-6NkdjJ), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzQ4ODM3OTkucnNz?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwiYzr_b78XtAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [TuneIn](https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/The-Crossover-with-Joe-Arlauckas-p1174586/), [Stitcher](https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-crossover-with-joe-arlauckas), [CastBox](https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Crossover-with-Joe-Arlauckas-id1467328?country=gb), [iVoox](https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-the-crossover-with-joe-arlauckas_sq_f1629856_1.html) and other platforms.

 A quarter with Kyle Hines and Louis Olinde 

A Quarter with Kyle Hines, the podcast in which the four-time champion talks to his fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeague players, welcomes Louis Olinde of ALBA Berlin to talk about his best season yet in the EuroLeague, and how confidence and experience have made him a better player.

A quarter with Kyle Hines and Louis Olinde

 A Quarter with Kyle Hines and Louis Olinde 

Refereeing great Luigi Lamonica visits The Crossover

The latest guest on The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas was the most recognizable face of his generations of referees in Euroleague Basketball. Luigi Lamonica hung up his whistle after last season's Final Four in Belgrade, concluding a famous career that spanned more than two decades at the highest level of the sport.

The Italian referee officiated at 10 EuroLeague Final Fours as well as at the Olympic Games and the European championships. As it turned out, fate had more to do with him embarking on a career as a basketball referee than anything else.

"My father was on the board of this team where I played and they forgot to ask for a referee from the local federation," Lamonica explains of his refereeing beginnings. "So when I arrived at the game, and they said, oh but, we didn’t call the referee. My father came to me, gave me the whistle and said: ‘Go!’"

The next day, the certified referee did come and invited Lamonica to join the next referee course. Lamonica decided to try it out and the rest is history.

Lamonica spent 13 seasons toiling in Italy’s lower divisions and even more before he received his international tag. He fell in love with officiating in that time, even though it was still at a lower level. 

"I enjoyed so much officiating that until their kicking my ass is too painful, I will continue because I loved officiating. There are so many things around officiating. It’s not only the 40 minutes of the game," he said about those years while adding that aside from lifelong friends, his first trips on a train, a ferry boat and an airplane all came to referee games. "I was so happy to have this job, I would have stayed in the second or third division in Italy, no problem at all."

Lamonica, who now serves as the head of the Italian referees' committee, engaged Arlauckas in a detailed explanation of how officials prepare for games, what they must never do and what they look for in key situations. The flow of the conversation gave Arlauckas, who was no friend of referees during his playing days, a new respect for the position.

"I’m literally fascinated by this conversation we’re having. It's a conversation I’ve never had with other referees and I’m so glad that we’re doing it because now, what you’ve done by just explaining that part of the game, you’ve made me realize how important it really is to have some experience in the game of basketball," Arlauckas tells Lamonica. "I think that if players could sit down and listen to that and understand exactly what you guys are doing it may be a little different that reaction of players or coaches." 

Lamonica goes on to discuss one of the worst calls of his career, when he incorrectly whistled a fifth foul on Shane Larkin of Anadolu Efes Istanbul in overtime of a game against FC Barcelona last season and how that impacted his decision to retire.

"After that call, something inside me was broken and I though probably I started to lose something,"  Lamonica confessed. "If you don’t see it, don’t blow the whistle. But I \[thought\] I saw something. And this was 'working' in my brain."

Among other topics discussed were how technology has changed the way games are officiated, some tense moments in his career and how to handle referees’ mistakes. It's a highly entertaining and educational episode that fans of basketball will love.

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as [Mike James](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmike-james-opens-up-at-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654005562%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2NAQ2WBK2WO6jgaEJr08QL49nhqdQlpM1gOEYmrBQSY%3D&reserved=0), [Nicolo Melli](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-welcomes-nicolo-melli%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654005562%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vvjvlVh0%2BJEVVjUDawrUbp4n4IUphjEG9%2F5ocafONnY%3D&reserved=0) and [Vasilije Micic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmvp-micic-stops-by-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654005562%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MMz%2BV2jfiK%2FuvrweXm7szn9xM1nXq%2FLseqX6e6x0WAc%3D&reserved=0), coaching greats such as [Georgios Bartzokas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fhear-from-coach-bartzokas-on-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654005562%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=teZUcqf9wuPpPJQsAxjXYomZudh9lfVM80ZZtgyvLNQ%3D&reserved=0), [Dimitris Itoudis](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-opens-its-season-with-dimitris-itoudis%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654161749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vPMo6Q%2B%2BPWsuH25agOHLOeJigrxx7o0oOqLLzgtbBRk%3D&reserved=0) and [Zeljko Obradovic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F0sCEhjvX6MdHlPhZc5jAWp%3Fsi%3Dcd7282081e9a4a9b&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654161749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=SDqeMvnZ8ecaxqSEOYqT58VY9725i90quuSNADFsrWA%3D&reserved=0), and legends like [Theo Papaloukas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E1uxqqlpoAkBj0LvAmvC7%3Fsi%3D030e8b2dcbf54e38&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654161749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=04sh4If2cS4a0tdpHtg1KBsFCO6dTtx7rPlrBCzJTlw%3D&reserved=0), [Nikola Vujcic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F1XDwrj2HEoNCOBOkRDtOES%3Fsi%3Dfda191cbf7a047db&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654161749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Uum4v5SbETZMGcrU7t9llo9ZAteqpI%2Fr0KlYWsGo0vk%3D&reserved=0) and [Mike Batiste](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E79YlFsVIpSXNPGvaM5gF%3Fsi%3D65ab5d8fe5ef4bb5&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C4c0336296e9a42af530f08db1967c271%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638131705654161749%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MEObPcvX0%2FGWrwNWdwCW4noo8EkNsmVtXKb1S7rtpyQ%3D&reserved=0), among others.

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### Euroleague Basketball's CEO dishes with Milan's superstar center

It's a unique edition of A Quarter with Kyle Hines when the four-time Turkish Airlines EuroLeague champion devotes his latest episode to a lively, near hour-long exchange of ideas with Marshall Glickman.

In what Hines guesses must be a first in professional sports – an active player interviewing the head of the league in which he competes – the EA7 Emporio Armani Milan star and the new Euroleague Basketball CEO cover the gamut of on- and off-court issues that concern players, coaches, clubs, fans and stakeholders alike.

Among those issues is the prospect of the EuroLeague reaching new markets in the future.

"We have an incredible bright future, and there's a lot of what I call 'white space' out there, unlocked value, and I'm feeling really good about that opportunity, particularly in the growth markets," Glickman says.

Hines wanted to know about the role of players in that future.

"The players are at the core of everything," Glickman answered. "To me, hearing from and understanding and being sensitive to the journey that players are going through is critically important to any decision that we make."

The other audience that's a major focus of their discussion is the fans themselves, to whom Glickman made a forthright appeal.

"Help us spread the gospel," he said. "Because in EuroLeague, it's true, every game matters, and that's something very different. And so I'm really proud of that. I feel really honored to be here to help. I said I'm a player-first guy, but what I should have said, and I'll correct it now: I'm a fan-first guy. I really am, and it's always been about that for me."

Watch the whole interview and enjoy a lively back-and-forth between Kyle Hines and Marshall Glickman.

For previous episodes of "A Quarter with Kyle Hines" check his whole playlist [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcjy-GNBj1yw5p-hYGtl5xE7lZBNFVSZ).

A Quarter with Kyle Hines and Marshall Glickman

A quarter with Kyle Hines and Isaiah Canaan

A Quarter with Kyle Hines, the podcast in which the four-time champion talks to his fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, welcomes guard Isaiah Canaan to talk about his own trajectory and the season he and his teammates are having with Olympiacos Piraeus.

A Quarter with Kyle Hines and Olympiacos's Isaiah Canaan

### The 2019 champion and Final Four MVP chats with Joe Arlauckas about his life journey, from his childhood in Detroit, USA; to signing with Anadolu Efes last summer

The latest episode of The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas features one of the most dynamic players in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague; Anadolu Efes Istanbul forward [Will Clyburn](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/players/will-clyburn/004888/) came from humble beginnings to become one of the most accomplished players on the Old Continent.   

A self-described gym rat, basketball wasn't even his favorite sport growing up. That was baseball, which to this day his father still contends Will was better at. But after taking a year off from baseball, he was never able to readjust and basketball fans across Europe are thankful for that.

Clyburn was not a star at his suburban Detroit high school and had few options to play afterward. After a coach saw something in his at an open practice, he wound up at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa. The adjustment period took some time and Clyburn had a pedestrian freshman season, but that summer he put in the extra work that would change his life. 

"I spent 10 days at home and the rest of the time I spent in Iowa by myself with my junior college coach. And we just worked. That’s all we did was work, drills," Clyburn recalled. "I wasn’t disappointed with how my freshman year went, but I knew I could do better. I had a taste of it. I ended up getting invited to a top JUCO players for the summertime \[camp\] and I think that’s where I was kinda like: ‘you got a chance.’ I went there, I played well and that’s when I finally said, okay you actually have a chance to go to a university. And it went up from there." 

His second season forced people to take notice, especially after he scored 54 points in one game. That led to a series of scholarship offers and Clyburn eventually settled on the University of Utah for one season before spending his senior year with Iowa State University. 

Clyburn knew little about basketball in Europe, but was pleased with the offer from ratiopharm Ulm and played his first two professional seasons in Germany before one at Israel's Hapoel Holon under Dan Shamir, who is now an assistant coach at EA7 Emporio Armani Milan. Shamir put in a good word for Clyburn with David Blatt and soon he was signed to play for Darussafaka Istanbul. 

"Once I get to some places, I’m like ‘hey, I made it pretty far. I’m just happy to be here. I beat the odds.' And \[Blatt\] was the first guy that told me don’t see it that way. Don’t look at it that way. I brought you here for a reason. I brought you here to help this team. I think you can help this team," Clyburn said of the start of his time at Darussafaka. "After we had that conversation, he kept his word. I was a part of the team. I was a big part of the team and he gave me freedom to really play my game. He gave me an opportunity. 

Clyburn had a major role as a starter for Darussafaka as it made the playoffs and even took Game 2 of the series from Real Madrid. From there Clyburn signed with CSKA Moscow, where his career reached new heights as he won his first EuroLeague crown and twice to the All-EuroLeague team in five seasons. But, as Clyburn revealed in the podcast, it could have gone very differently. 

He suffered a sprained ankle late in the semifinals victory over Real Madrid that would require surgery that summer. He took a shot just to be able to play in the championship game against Efes. But even that did not help too much. 

"In warmups, I went to test it out to make sure I was good and I jumped and, oh man, it just came just flying back at me. All the pain came out at once and I said, this is not gonna go well for me," he said.

"Still to this day, I’m just lucky that Efes never decided to attack me off the dribble because for sure I couldn’t play against it. If they were to decide to bring me to pick on Shane \[Larkin\] and had me out there on Shane. Done. Bring me to Vasa \[Micic\]. Done. It didn’t matter. I had Adrien \[Moerman\]. He doesn’t dribble the ball, just crashes the boards. I could do that. But if I had to move, no way…"

Clyburn went for 20 points on 4-for-6 three-point shooting in that game to take home 2019 Final Four MVP honors. It would be his last big game for a while as he suffered a torn ACL early the following season. But Clyburn worked hard to get back and was a dominant player again after that. 

A family man, Clyburn’s wife and kids have been there for him through the highs and lows and he has developed a strategy to help him deal with problems before he goes home.

"I use my time to reflect on the drive home. Especially after losses, bad practices, stuff like that. That drive home is kind of where I reflect and think about those things that went wrong, what I did right and whatnot. But when I walk through that door and my family and my kids are there, that life is gone, basketball is cut. Now I have a new responsibility when I walk in this house and they have nothing to do with that basketball stuff."

At age 32, Clyburn still has plenty of great basketball in front of him and he is certain to play a key role as his new team, two-time defending champion Efes, looks to challenge for another ‘ship this season. 

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as [Mike James](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmike-james-opens-up-at-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671687290%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Mml5mkhqjNgidnW5wysNA%2FYwbMv5GSNev5svey7QaOY%3D&reserved=0), [Nicolo Melli](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-welcomes-nicolo-melli%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671697243%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=heIYVYvIryoljnKXPmbeqSLb7G77TzS0nJ6%2F06s9NSM%3D&reserved=0) and [Vasilije Micic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmvp-micic-stops-by-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671707188%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xvceWNAErA%2FJmJhdcyqvilbzpUGz%2BNMNfHKLIRYohOU%3D&reserved=0), coaching greats such as [Georgios Bartzokas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fhear-from-coach-bartzokas-on-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671717149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2i9aE5QUIZbaggFhLkj2RL6e1ej0uiGzq%2B%2B%2BQai3LnU%3D&reserved=0), [Dimitris Itoudis](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-opens-its-season-with-dimitris-itoudis%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671727103%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UAIuC3UtGwGEy9Yuiy%2Fm%2BX5qp3DdSvOSQVk79sA0A%2B4%3D&reserved=0) and [Zeljko Obradovic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F0sCEhjvX6MdHlPhZc5jAWp%3Fsi%3Dcd7282081e9a4a9b&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671737065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xNQVTc2WfgALFidWgGZejypvwat6ijIfUC88E%2BJ0Z38%3D&reserved=0), and legends like [Theo Papaloukas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E1uxqqlpoAkBj0LvAmvC7%3Fsi%3D030e8b2dcbf54e38&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671737065%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PXWIwWQAYpyZqV4FtlAARXsrye3uZdoA9LC1OzAhWbc%3D&reserved=0), [Nikola Vujcic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F1XDwrj2HEoNCOBOkRDtOES%3Fsi%3Dfda191cbf7a047db&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671747027%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Nr%2BrWOBeOHF6hYstXyxc%2BNz4VUHnuKGh0Vuez%2BQgxSU%3D&reserved=0) and [Mike Batiste](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E79YlFsVIpSXNPGvaM5gF%3Fsi%3D65ab5d8fe5ef4bb5&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7Cd70b68acb00543a1297308db02bf7ca9%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638106793671756981%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Jvnw24E8pv0%2BqwEi61MExlaS0Khz%2Fc1kwE%2B6ksZQ3iE%3D&reserved=0), among others.

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other platforms.

 Will Clyburn joins the Crossover

A Quarter with Kyle Hines, the podcast in which the four-time champion talks to his fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, welcomes sharpshooter Kevin Punter to talk about his own trajectory and the return to the competition of Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade.

A quarter with Kyle Hines and Kevin Punter 

A Quarter with Kyle Hines, the podcast in which the four-time champion talks to his fellow Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, welcomes sharpshooter Kevin Punter to talk about his own trajectory and the return to the competition of of Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade.

A Quarter with Kyle Hines and Kevin Punter

A Quarter with Kyle Hines and Partizan's Kevin Punter

The Crossover welcomes Sergio Scariolo

### Virtus’ Head Coach reviews his wide career and shares his coaching principles in the third episode of the season

The latest guest on Season 5 of the Crossover with Joe Arlauckas is the head coach of Virtus Segafredo Bologna and the Spanish national team, Sergio Scariolo. Their lengthy chat covered the width and the breadth of Scariolo’s distinguished career. 

Although he studied law, basketball was Scariolo’s passion and already at age 22 he had decided to hang up his sneakers and begin coaching. Before he could settle in as an assistant at his hometown club, Brescia, Scariolo had to fulfill his military commitment. He was fortunate enough to receive a position as coach of the Italian military team, which competed in Italy’s this division, and he later guided that team to the gold medal at the world championships for military teams. 

Scariolo was just 28 when he took the reins of a team for the first time, Scavolini Pesaro. In the mid-1990s, he spent four seasons on the sidelines with Fortitudo Bologna where Scariolo and Arlauckas only now discovered how close the latter was to play for him!

As his name grew, Scariolo spent time studying Spanish and he was ready when he received an offer to coach in the ACB. 

"There was probably no better place to make your first step outside your country than Spain and specifically Vitoria where there was a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of desire to climb to the next level," Scariolo said. 

After guiding Baskonia to the Spanish league finals and the 1999 Copa del Rey, he moved on to Real Madrid and won the Spanish championship in his first season. The next stop in Spain was a much different team, Unicaja Malaga, which he also led to the league championship as well as a berth at the EuroLeague Final Four. 

He left Unicaja in 2008 and the following season was appointed as Spain’s national team coach for the first time. The skills and approach needed to handle a team loaded with stars such as Real Madrid or the national team in certain eras compared to Unicaja led to a discussion about Scariolo’s coaching philosophy. 

"You’ve got to really be available to play with other teammates, to share the ball, because nowadays the defense will be able to shut a selfish, even if he’s an extremely gifted player, down much easier than before. So first of all you have to feel the will to play together with your teammates, to share the ball. And second, you have to share the will to play defense," Scariolo detailed. "Those two principles are non-negotiable. I could barely coach a player who was not really into this, committed to this. Then all the rest you can have more or less flexibility."

Scariolo’s career would also include stops with Khimki Moscow Region in Russia, Olimpia Milan in Italy and Toronto in the NBA. He was part of the coaching staff that led Toronto to its only NBA crown in 2019. After three seasons with Toronto, Scariolo initially struggled with the decision to return home to Italy as a head coach. 

"I remember that the night before the day I decided was the only sleepless night I’ve had in the last 20 years, even before a game or after a game. I couldn’t close my eyes all night. And then after making the decision, I felt like, ‘hey, it was a no-brainer,’” he said.

Scariolo has continued to make history with Virtus. Last season they won the 7DAYS EuroCup crown and now he has them in the playoff race in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. At age 61, Scariolo has plenty left in the tank to build Virtus into a European force once again.

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. 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Dante Exum is the latest guest on The Crossover 

Joe Arlauckas dishes with the Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade guard about his basketball growth in Australia and success in the EuroLeague  

The first player to sit with Joe Arlauckas for the new season of The Crossover came from Down Under. Dante Exum shined at the Australian Institute of Sport and had several injury-riddled seasons in the NBA before landing in Spain last season to play for FC Barcelona. 

He faced the ultimate challenge only days after his arrival by debuting in El Clasico against the club’s archenemy Real Madrid. Exum acquitted himself well, despite all the adjustments needed when joining a big club mid-season, including needing to fill in at times at all three perimeter positions. 

"It was very difficult, coming in, coming over you have all these aspirations that you’re gonna come over and dominate and do well, but you’re coming into a team that’s established, they’re first in ACB, first in EuroLeague, so obviously something’s working in the team," Exum explained. "And for me, I was trying to come in and play a part in the team, but I wasn’t trying to disrupt their winning and what they were doing."

Exum helped Barcelona reach the EuroLeague Final Four, win the Spanish Copa Del Rey and play in the ACB finals in a successful first season in Europe. At its end, he decided to look for a challenge with a club where he’d have a bigger role and found that with Partizan, a club he knew a little about from a childhood friend. But the level of crowd support he discovered was beyond his wildest imagination. 

"It’s like a movie. You can’t explain, like, ‘Okay, I’m about to play for these fans that just want us to win,’" Exum said. " I love looking out in the crowd and just seeing, there’s like three or four of them that, they literally don’t even watch the game, they’re just standing up and they’re just chanting… I’ll watch them for like a minute. I should be watching the game, but I’m watching them. They don’t watch the game. A shot happens, they don’t care. They’re just ready to start the chants and make sure everyone’s chanting. It’s unbelievable. I can’t explain it."

With Partizan, Exum is getting the chance to play for one of the great coaches in basketball, Zeljko Obradovic. Exum appreciates the way Obradovic is pushing him and his teammates to become better players. 

"I think the biggest thing with him is that he challenges you… He’ll give you the freedom to play, but he wants you to play smart. I think that’s the biggest thing about him," Exum explained. "Like yeah, you can go out there and do whatever you want, but play smart. Play the right way. That’s the best thing that I’ve liked about him so far."

Growing up in Australia, teenage stardom, becoming a lottery pick in the NBA, the frustration of major injuries that caused him to miss an entire season and the mental turmoil of those ordeals through the decision to come to the EuroLeague and his fine season in Belgrade, Exum and Arlauckas touched on all those topics in an entertaining 85-minute edition of the Crossover that you don’t want to miss. 

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. 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A quarter with Kyle Hines and Dzanan Musa 

The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas returns for its fifth season and begins at the top as Joe chats with new Euroleague Basketball CEO Marshall Glickman. As a former executive with both the Portland Trail Blazers and the NBA, spoke at length about some of his goals for Europe's premier basketball competition while sharing some interesting stories about the path he took to his new role.

Although his father, Harry, was one of the founders of Portland's NBA franchise, Glickman wanted to blaze his own trail when he was young.

09:45 "When I got out of school in '81, I swore up and down that I would never work for my father because all of us want our independence," Glickman recounts. "We all want to feel that we can make our own way and I wanted to show myself and my father that I could. So I actually moved to Los Angeles with no job!"

After Glickman spent time in the music industry in Los Angeles and sold cable television subscriptions in Portland, he ultimately landed with the Blazers where he learned all about running a professional sports franchise, particularly on the marketing and promoting side.

His career has taken him around the world as an advisor to clubs, leagues and events. He has also been a stakeholder in the building of various sports and entertainment venues. One of those stops was in Barcelona as an advisor to Euroleague Basketball since 2002. Now that he is back in Barcelona, Glickman is eager to disrupt the basketball landscape in Europe and shared some of his ideas, including growing the entertainment aspect of the league.

35:10 "I think we want to be different than the NBA. For basketball fans, fantastic, but we also need to reach people who are not necessarily devoted or kind of hard-core fans. We need to reach the outer ring, people who just enjoy having fun, people who enjoy having a good time," Glickman explained.

After these first months as the new CEO, Glickman thinks there is a lot of space for growth and talks about the areas that can make the difference:

38:10 "I'm very optimistic. We have some really big challenges. We are working things out, I hope, with our clubs because there are certain clubs that have different perspectives which would be normal… But I'm hoping that we can put all of this together by addressing literally what's our event strategy, what's our partnership strategy, what's our market expansion strategy? How can we simplify our governance and our legal structure? Could we find peace with FIBA? How can we tell our stories better? How do we address financial fair play… We are looking at all of that at the same time. It's a great ride and I'm very optimistic that the outcome of all that, I like to call it EuroLeague 3.0, is something that I'm really looking forward to."

Glickman also talks about the potential addition of more teams and how it could be done without losing one of the league's core values: the fact that every game matters:

57:30 "We have to be careful with \[adding more teams\] because it's what makes it so special, right? I think more teams is inevitable but there's not going to be more calendar is there?… Right now, this format that we have is fantastic and it's the thing that propelled us to the next level… There's no magical solution but I think we are going to have to go to conferences \[in the event that more teams are added to the league.\]

The list of topics and possibilities brought up in the conversation is seemingly endless and one that all fans of European basketball – or any sport or business – should listen to closely.

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as [Mike James](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmike-james-opens-up-at-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303084570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FjpDe5IAyChYTC8RPfackb42XIXCm1paIbc49w2no7c%3D&reserved=0), [Nicolo Melli](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-welcomes-nicolo-melli%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303084570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=IHjRt4lIzCjW%2BCiiyLtLTCF%2FY6GqaPX%2BqXHVyJgwMKw%3D&reserved=0) and [Vasilije Micic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fmvp-micic-stops-by-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303084570%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=whddamHfXKbtNgTSlbR8DBS%2BAYedPS0C4sTt%2FvFAJt4%3D&reserved=0), coaching greats such as [Georgios Bartzokas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fhear-from-coach-bartzokas-on-the-crossover%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BWs5PfAOaafElxs93TcHRVaNeM%2BXIoeZtICz9Jjlu%2Bo%3D&reserved=0), [Dimitris Itoudis](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euroleaguebasketball.net%2Feuroleague%2Fnews%2Fthe-crossover-opens-its-season-with-dimitris-itoudis%2F%3FpageTitle%3DPodcasts%26historyUrl%3D%2Feuroleague%2Fpodcasts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3eCJHymn96KJ%2FW0497XaOzIdjpTrOD6DP4UvrlGDNsk%3D&reserved=0) and [Zeljko Obradovic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F0sCEhjvX6MdHlPhZc5jAWp%3Fsi%3Dcd7282081e9a4a9b&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uB6LeEw74XuIr%2FbL1GhjzKwIL4VK4g5qg%2FvBEgmf8yo%3D&reserved=0), and legends like [Theo Papaloukas](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E1uxqqlpoAkBj0LvAmvC7%3Fsi%3D030e8b2dcbf54e38&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=S0wUsifRGlvW4DHDqel%2FuOzghzlo1F6Krm9FACYmIBs%3D&reserved=0), [Nikola Vujcic](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F1XDwrj2HEoNCOBOkRDtOES%3Fsi%3Dfda191cbf7a047db&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=h5Fjkgr%2BrKmh36doYBMii%2BNBXoW%2FEYP6LClJuShxwVc%3D&reserved=0) and [Mike Batiste](https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fepisode%2F2E79YlFsVIpSXNPGvaM5gF%3Fsi%3D65ab5d8fe5ef4bb5&data=05%7C01%7Cedu.roca%40euroleague.net%7C6a5ff78dce6348fa873808dae2717b85%7C2b3d64f0329542979f1528435f0a62ce%7C1%7C0%7C638071274303240780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wKVx0ahIk1Sqf9Sa3MZk08H0YAScODe5mqbcoUXdioU%3D&reserved=0), among others.

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Joe Arlauckas talks basketball, being a disruptor, and life in Europe with EuroLeague Basketball's new CEO

Marshall Glickman opens a new season of The Crossover

A quarter with Kyle Hines and David Lighty 

A Quarter with Kyle Hines and ASVEL'S David Lighty

In the latest of his series of podcasts with Turkish Airlines EuroLeague stars-in-the-making, four-time champion Kyle Hines welcomes a 22-year-old who recently lifted the continental trophy for the first time, Filip Petrusev, whose first EuroLeague season coincided with Anadolu Efes Istanbul winning its second title in a row

 A quarter with Kyle Hines and Filip Petrusev 

##### **In the latest of his series of podcasts with Turkish Airlines EuroLeague stars-in-the-making, four-time champion Kyle Hines welcomes a 22-year-old who recently lifted the continental trophy for the first time, Filip Petrusev, whose first EuroLeague season coincided with Anadolu Efes Istanbul winning its second title in a row**

A quarter with Kyle Hines and Filip Petrusev

 Joe Arlauckas hosts the Efes title-game star on the podcast's season finale

Back-to-back champ Tibor Pleiss joins The Crossover

Joe Arlauckas always like to talk to the big men, so who would make a better guest to conclude the 2021-22 season of The Crossover than Anadolu Efes Istanbul center Tibor Pleiss? Not only did Pleiss win his second consecutive EuroLeague crown, but he played a huge role down the stretch in the recent Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game in Belgrade, which the two discussed at length.

Of course, they started at the beginning. Pleiss grew up in Cologne, Germany – the home of the 2021 Final Four. Long before his dream of becoming a champion could become a reality, Pleiss's frustration with the time and effort that went into playing as a teenager almost caused him to walk away. 

\[13:45\] "I had two times consideration when I was playing for the young teams where I was thinking about quitting basketball... It was when I was 14-15," Pleiss revealed. "I drove like one and a half hours to practice. But I didn't play at all. I was traveling with the team. I think I was one of the best scorers on the team, but I had less playing time than anybody else. I had this moment where I was thinking, is this all worth it?"

Fortunately, Pleiss stayed with basketball and, by the time he was 17, was already training with the professional team in Cologne and even traveling to EuroCup games abroad. He was still a teenager when he left Cologne to play for Brose Baskets, where he made his EuroLeague debut. Pleiss would go on to play for Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, FC Barcelona and Valencia in Spain, Utah in the NBA and Galatasaray in Turkey, which is where he first linked up with Efes head coach Ergin Ataman.

\[28:25\] "He called me at that time and said, 'Hey Tibor, I know you had a tough season, but if you come to me, we can do something good. I'll give you your free time. You can play. You can do whatever you want.' I think that's what made my decision even easier. So I moved to Gala."

One of Pleiss's great weapons has been his ability to stretch the floor with his long-range shooting, forcing opposing centers out to guard him on the perimeter. At first, however, it was not easy to convince Ataman to let him fire away from deep.

\[29:10\] "Go to the three-point line and give me 6 three-point shots in a row. If you make 6 three-point shots in a row, I'll give you 1 shot every game," Ataman said to Pleiss in a preseason practice in 2016. "I went to the three-point line and I think I made 8 in a row, or 9." 

Pleiss joined Ataman and Efes in 2018 and was a part of the big turnaround that saw the team go from last place the season before to the 2019 EuroLeague Championship Game. The following season, Efes was flying high and dead-set on winning the title when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. 

\[39:00\] "We just thought that this season was different. We had a great shape. We have to continue, so everybody tried to stay in shape," Pleiss recalled of the period when the 2019-20 season was first suspended. "And then of course, when they decided not to continue the season anymore, it was kind of like a hit."

Efes finally got the chance to win the title at the 2021 Final Four in his hometown. Even though he did not have a big part in the rotation when that Final Four rolled around, Pleiss showed his team spirit and character even from the bench.

\[45:30\] "I knew already that I had done my part as well. At the beginning of the season, I had some good games as well. I played good. And I felt like now, I don't care. Of course, I wanted to be on the court, but on the other \[hand\], I wanted to win the championship," Pleiss explained. "I told myself, I don't care who is playing, I want to go out, I want to leave and hold the cup in my hands."

The Final Four in Belgrade was Pleiss's third and he was physically and mentally ready for the challenge. So when the opposition focused more on his star teammates Shane Larkin and Vasilije Micic, Pleiss was ready to take advantage. Among his highlights was a play that got Arlauckas out of his seat!

\[1:11:10\] "I got the ball, I wanted to shoot, I saw like Rudy \[Fernandez\] flying by. I was like, 'Have a good flight. Have a good take-off.' Just a little dribble and, I don't know, I took the shot and the ball went in," Pleiss relayed calmly. 

That shot, which Arlauckas considered the play of the game, helped Efes maintain control. Efes went forward to win it all for a second straight season and put Pleiss's name in the history books.  

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as Mike James, Guerschon Yabusele, Nicolo Melli and Vasilije Micic, coaching greats such as Georgios Bartzokas, Pablo Laso and Zeljko Obradovic, and legends like Theo Papaloukas, Nikola Vujcic and Mike Batiste, among others.

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Joe Arlauckas hosts the Efes title-game star on the podcast's season finale

Back-to-back champ Tibor Pleiss joins The Crossover 

A special edition of The Crossover comes your way on the eve of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game as host Joe Arlauckas holds court to talk about everything happening in Belgrade alongside FC Bayern Munich head coach Andrea Trinchieri, former EuroLeague champion David Rivers and local Belgrade journalist Aleksandra Radivojevic of SportKlub. Check out their take on the fanfare of the Final four on the possible outcomes in Saturday’s big game to decide the trophy between Real Madrid and Anadolu Efes Istanbul!

The Crossover at the Final Four!

The Monaco ace spends a spirited hour with Joe Arlauckas

Mike James opens up at The Crossover

One of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague's top stars in recent years, Mike James of AS Monaco, recounts some of the key moments of his career on the newest edition of The Crossover podcast with Joe Arlauckas.

What comes out of their animated conversation is an understanding between like-minded athletes of how a stone competitor like James can be loved by his teammates but misunderstood by others.

59:20 "I'm the villain, man," James joked. "I'm like the villain that you like in the movie. You like him, but he's still the villain."

Nonetheless, James wouldn't change much of what has happened to him along the way.

4:48 "It's all part of the journey," he says. "For people who had it a little bit easier, maybe they don't appreciate it as much when they get \[success\]. I think I'm very appreciative. Just the work I put into playing basketball and how much I love basketball, I think that kind of shows."  5:05

And if he isn't the person smiling most on the court, James says there is a reason for that:

3:24 "To be at a high level you have to have a certain moxie or swagger or attitude about you. I think if you don't have that, you just don't reach your full potential as a basketball player or in any sport in general." 3:40

James has starred for five different EuroLeague teams over eight seasons – Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz, Panathinaikos Athens, AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan, CSKA Moscow and Monaco – leaving a remarkable trail of exploits along the way, especially for someone who wasn't sure he would become a pro.

7:30 "Short answer is no, I didn't think I would be a pro or play basketball for a long time," he says. "At each stage, I was skeptical I would go to the next one." 7:50

Instead, it was a matter of just six months between when James was playing in the Italian third division until he debuted in the EuroLeague in late 2014 as a mid-season pick-up by Baskonia. In his first full EuroLeague season, James was a key factor in Baskonia reaching its only Final Four in the last 16 years.

(19:50) "I don't think we actually sat down to appreciate how good we were and the group that we had together," he recalls. "But that being said, it was amazing to go to the Final Four. I haven't been back since, which is upsetting." (20:05)

James cycled through Panathinaikos, Milan and CSKA since then, winning a Top Scorer Trophy and an All-EuroLeague nod in the 2018-19 season. He has scored more points during his time in the EuroLeague than anyone except Nando De Colo. But his return to the Final Four has been stopped in the playoffs and by the pandemic, among other reasons. James talks about his departure from a couple of those teams, but he's content now to have landed on his feet in Monaco, leading a debut EuroLeague team into its current playoff series with Olympiacos Piraeus.

1:00:30 "We've got options," he says of the best-of-five series, tied 1-1 before Game 3 on Wednesday in Monaco. "One of the main things about me playing \[against Olympiacos\]l is a respect thing... As much as I've been the opposition to them in the past, they play basketball the right way. They play hard, they play as a team, and they're good. So a lot of respect to them."

By his own count, though, the 31-year-old guard might have few such opportunities left, because his competitiveness won't let him limp off into the sunset as an older player.

1:03:30 "I've got one or two years left," James tells Arlauckas. "I can't ever be bad at nothing. I can never be considered less than I am right now. Once I start feeling like I might go down, I gotta get out of here."

That competitiveness was evident even during his turn on the show's EuroLeague quiz.

1:06:00 "This is going to make me so mad if I don't get a high score," he said. "This is going to stress me out for a long time."

With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as Guerschon Yabusele, Nicolo Melli and Vasilije Micic, coaching greats such as Georgios Bartzokas, Pablo Laso and Zeljko Obradovic, and legends like Theo Papaloukas, Nikola Vujcic and Mike Batiste, among others.

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##### **In the latest of his series of podcasts with Turkish Airlines EuroLeague stars-in-the-making, four-time champion Kyle Hines welcomes 24-year-old swingman Alpha Diallo of AS Monaco, who had debuted with impact in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague this season, much like the team that he helped reach the playoffs starting this week!**

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Joe Arlauckas hosts the Olympiacos Piraeus head coach on the latest Crossover episode

Hear from Coach Bartzokas on The Crossover

It is always especially interesting when the coaches of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague sit down to chat with Joe Arlauckas, so when Georgios Bartzokas of Olympiacos Piraeus joined The Crossover, a lively discussion was guaranteed. The topics addressed included Bartzokas’s playing career, his different stops as a head coach, his coaching philosophy, his love for Olympiacos and much more. 

Bartzokas spent more than a decade as a power forward for Maroussi Athens and when injuries ended Bartzokas’s playing career prematurely, he knew the best way to stay in the sport he loved was coaching. In fact, Bartzokas had already been coaching children while still active as a player. His introduction to high-level coaching came as Panagiotis Giannakis’s assistant at Maroussi. Following successful stints as head coach with Larissa, Maroussi and Panionios, he was hired by the reigning EuroLeague champion in 2012, the club he had supported since he was a boy.

25:50

“I cannot hide it. I am an Olympiacos fan since I was a kid,” Bartzokas confirmed. “In Greece, everybody knows that. I grew up in football or basketball with Olympiacos, being a fan of the club. When I had this opportunity for this job, I couldn’t deny it. One of the happiest days of my life was when I signed with Olympiacos.”

He stepped into the shoes of Dusan Ivkovic and led the Reds to a successful title defense at the Final Four in London. Since then, Bartzokas has been a man in demand among the top clubs on the continent. He left Olympiacos early in the 2014-15 season and after a year off, coached abroad for the first time and led Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar to its first Final Four. Then came a season with FC Barcelona and a season and a half with Khimki Moscow Region. 

Throughout his stops, players have appreciated Bartzokas’s basketball philosophy, and the coach has become a master at getting the most out of his players. Arlauckas and Bartzokas delved into exactly how the coach approaches the game. 

45:30

“I don’t want to overcoach, this is my philosophy. I really love to see the players inside the court express their talent,” Bartzokas explained. “Of course, \[you have\] to have specific principles, rules, but I love to let them express their talent. I am not a coach who in every offense decides who is going to make the decision, who is going to score, who is going to take the shot. I don’t want to be like that. I really believe that by developing this during the season, you can get big results.” 

In January 2020, Olympiacos was struggling and in danger of missing the playoffs for the second consecutive season. Ownership turned to Bartzokas and asked him to come home and rebuild the team. The challenge at hand was much different than his first time with the club; unlike earlier when he had a championship-caliber roster, this time the Reds had an aging core. After some deliberations, Bartzokas accepted the challenge. 

1:05:15

“You need to work for today, for the next practice, for the next game. You need to enjoy what you are doing. Also, you need to be always motivated to be better at your job, to make your team better,” he said. “I think that both things are very interesting. To take a championship team and win again or to rebuild a team with the reputation Olympiacos has in European basketball. it is not easy. It is not only my responsibility. It is always a team effort. I have the support of the owners, of the front office. The organization at Olympiacos is really great. And positive players, which is very important. Always you need that.”

The rebuild has been quite successful considering that Olympiacos is third in the standings and has not only already locked up a playoff berth, but the home-court advantage in the quarterfinals, which carries a lot of weight considering the Reds are 12-1 this season at Peace and Friendship Stadium. Can Bartzokas lead Olympiacos to another historic feat? Time will tell. 

 With a one-hour format of exclusive one-on-one interviews, The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas goes well beyond the playing court with each podcast to delve into the life experiences that have made his guests protagonists and legends of the EuroLeague. The Crossover debuted in 2018 and has featured such current stars as Guerschon Yabusele, Nicolo Melli and Vasilije Micic, coaching greats such as Andrea Trinchieri, Pablo Laso and Zeljko Obradovic, and legends like Theo Papaloukas, Nikola Vujcic and Mike Batiste, among others.

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