When one of the all-time greats of the NBA tips his hat off to you, then it becomes clear that you have arrived. That is exactly what L.A Lakers’s star Lebron James did when asked about Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Kostas Sloukas who plays for Turkish basketball team Fenerbahce was the target of online attacks by Turkish nationalist and extreme-right fans after he refused to hold a banner with the rest of his team about the founder of the modern Turkish state, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with references to Smyrna and the Asia Minor Disaster!