Rick Pitino's Greek Team Straight Up Quit Their League In The Middle Of The Season Because Of 'Terrorism And Lawlessness' From Their Rivals

[EuroHoops] - Panathinaikos OPAP released a statement in which they announced they withdraw from action in the Greek League.

The Greens will remain out of action starting off today’s game against Kimi“until the legitimacy, not the terrorism and the lawlessness that Olympiacos seeks to impose with the tolerance of the state, prevails again”, as stated in their announcement.

This marks a protest to the referee change in Olympiacos’ game against Promitheas Patras. As it was made known earlier in the day, referee Panagiotis Anastopoulos was replaced after his own request to the Referee Union and Greek Basketball Federation, following an incident that took place last night, where nearly a hundred fans gathered outside his house while chanting swears against him.

Holy shit, I love European basketball. I know our guy Mike Grier lives for Euro hoops, but this is the best. Just flat out refusing to play games because of a referee replacement? Can’t say I’m that surprised. Remember Pitino’s owner is the same guy who put a thong on his rivals bench because they forfeited at halftime earlier this year.

The best is this isn’t even a ref replacement in one of their games. This is about their rival! That’s pure hatred. I mean this is exactly what you want to see. Oh, our rival has a benefit? Watch this. We’re out!

They are even out here throwing terrorism lawlessness as a reason! That’s absolutely awesome. I can’t get enough European basketball, especially in Greece. The same place where shit like this goes down:

Is it wrong that I love this move? I mean getting so pissed that your rival gets some help while you locked in winning the league? Just planting a big fuck you to everyone. There’s something awesome about that.