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Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2013, 05:00:37 PM »

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Congrats to you and Macedonia and Pero!

Interesting that he'll turn 31 this week and is only making it over here now.

Thank you.Interesting story about that. 5 years a go he was called and he played in orlando summer league in 2008. But after a week he came home and in a interview he sad that he can't play games every day and can't get used to nba schedule.He sad i'm not playing 82 games in a season when a can play 30 and get the same amount of money, hahah yes he is little crazy. He was switching teams every year, he was fighting or disagreeing with coaches and he was a trouble maker everywhere. He played in some of the best leagues and teams in europe. Russia,Greece but he was always stuborn. But despite his behavior problems his talent was recognized. At the end he is a 2 time euroleague champion.

he sounds like a very smart guy, I wouldn't play 82 games instead of 30 for the same money eithet

Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2013, 06:04:21 PM »

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ps: he's not from Macedonia,he's from FYROM. ;)


That's same :) You do know what FYROM means right? :)

did NOT mean to offend you(thats why i didnt say he's from Scopia),so no need to be sarcastic.
:)
of course i do,but for us Greeks,its at least strange,a neighbour country to having the same name with a state of Greece.
Yes, I can easily see how he'd be offended by someone who can't spell the name of the capital of his country correctly :P

Regardless, I have never had a clue why this is "strange for you Greeks". Ever heard of Luxembourg? No, not the country -- the region in Belgium. Both the Belgians and the Luxembourgish seem to be fine with that one :P

Our country name Macedonia is recognized from about 200 other countries. Greece is one of very few countries who call us FYROM. Greece have problem with us. I personally don't have a problem with Greece. I spent every summer holidey in Greece.

I don't feel offended because i think you are not recognizing our name because of what your goverment tells you or maybe you are ignorant about that issue.

Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2013, 03:20:54 PM »

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During tomorrow, Pero Antic will also sign 1 plus 1 contract with NBA team, Atlanta Hawks. He will be back to Europe on Friday night.

Not important at all for you guys i suppose you don't even know who this guy is, but for me is very important. So this topic is more of a bragging.

Pero Antic is from Macedonia, the same country as myself. Small country of 2 million people in south-east europe. He is the first player from my little country to play in the NBA and probably will stay the only one for a long time.

In the last two years he played for Olympiakos and was european champion two year in a row. He is one of the best defensive big guys in europe. So happy for him and i know you don't care about some random euro guy :) but i had to share this here with my celticsblog friends :)
im from Greece,and honestly if PA is capable of playing for the Hawks,he should give his agent a huuuuuge payrise!
a can see him as a DNP/cd most of the times.

ps: he's not from Macedonia,he's from FYROM. ;)


ATLANTA (July 25, 2013) -- The Atlanta Hawks have signed forward/center Pero Antić, President of Basketball Operations/GM Danny Ferry announced today. Per club policy, terms were not disclosed.

Antić, a 6-foot-11, 260-pound big man, has played with Olympiacos in the Greek Basketball League and the Euroleague the last two seasons, helping the club to back-to-back Euroleague championships. Last year, he averaged 6.2 points and 3.3 rebounds in 15.2 minutes in 30 games (.432 FG%, .321 3FG%, .714 FT%).

“Pero is a skilled and versatile big man who will add depth to our frontcourt,” Ferry said. “He will fit in well with what we’re building and we’re excited to add him to the team.”

A native of the Republic of Macedonia, Antić has played professionally since 1999, beginning with Rabotnički in his home country. He has also played with AEK Athens (Greece), Red Star Belgrade (Serbia), Academic Sofia (Bulgaria), Lokomotiv Kuban (Russia) and Spartak St. Petersburg (Russia).

Additionally, the 30-year-old Antić is the captain of the Macedonian National Team, helping the team to the semifinals of EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania. He averaged 11.5 points and 8.8 rebounds over 11 games in the tournament, while collecting three double-doubles.

This is copied from nba.com so i guess everyone calls us Macedonia except for greece

Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2013, 04:21:56 PM »

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It's former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Historically it has nothing to do with the ancient region of Macedonia where Alexander the Great was a king and it happens to border with the northen political region of Greece (Macedonia), which by the way is larger than your country and geographically and historically was the main part of Macedonia for the 2-3 thousand years. And I have to remind you that greeks hate their government but also know much about history. The lame propaganda about the name came from Tito in the 20th century where he wanted a separate Macedonian "nation" and climaxed in the 80s and 90s with the blessings of USA and the incompetence of Greek's government.

The world doesn't care as most people ouside America wouldn't care if Canada was renamed California or Palestine was called Republic of Jerusalem. Anyway, thanks to the sorry situation Greece currently is (not only by its fault) we could sell you the name for a few million. We give you its history as well for a couple more.

Unless you want to open a 100page historical-political advocacy thread in a sports forum I suggest you/we stop it right here.

Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2013, 04:25:29 PM »

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During tomorrow, Pero Antic will also sign 1 plus 1 contract with NBA team, Atlanta Hawks. He will be back to Europe on Friday night.

Not important at all for you guys i suppose you don't even know who this guy is, but for me is very important. So this topic is more of a bragging.

Pero Antic is from Macedonia, the same country as myself. Small country of 2 million people in south-east europe. He is the first player from my little country to play in the NBA and probably will stay the only one for a long time.

In the last two years he played for Olympiakos and was european champion two year in a row. He is one of the best defensive big guys in europe. So happy for him and i know you don't care about some random euro guy :) but i had to share this here with my celticsblog friends :)

TP, and congrats. Antic is a highly talented guy, and although there's some doubt about how he can adapt to the NBA, he's got game.

He and McCalebb were incredible in the Eurobasket, maybe the Hawks should bring him, too.

Thanks. It looks like you watch euro basketball a lot. I don't know if you are from europe or not but i'm glad someone knows who Antic is and his qualitties. And for McCalebb it's unclear how that type of a player still hasn't played an nba game. Last year in the eurobasket he was in the best team and the last few years he is one of the best scorers in europe

I'm from Spain, so I watch a lot of Euroleague matches of both Antic and McCalebb.

And I guess McCalebb makes boatloads of money in Europe being a team leader, so he'd need a good incentive to go to the NBA and be an unproven player. But if Prigioni can find a niche in the NBA, you could tell a way better player like McCalebb can, too.

Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2013, 05:44:50 PM »

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@vgulab

It's former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Historically it has nothing to do with the ancient region of Macedonia where Alexander the Great was a king and it happens to border with the northen political region of Greece (Macedonia), which by the way is larger than your country and geographically and historically was the main part of Macedonia for the 2-3 thousand years. And I have to remind you that greeks hate their government but also know much about history. The lame propaganda about the name came from Tito in the 20th century where he wanted a separate Macedonian "nation" and climaxed in the 80s and 90s with the blessings of USA and the incompetence of Greek's government.

The world doesn't care as most people ouside America wouldn't care if Canada was renamed California or Palestine was called Republic of Jerusalem. Anyway, thanks to the sorry situation Greece currently is (not only by its fault) we could sell you the name for a few million. We give you its history as well for a couple more.

Unless you want to open a 100page historical-political advocacy thread in a sports forum I suggest you/we stop it right here.

I want to open up a 100-page thread.

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Re: Pero Antic will sign 2 year deal with Atlanta Hawks
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2013, 10:43:05 AM »

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@vgulab

It's former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Historically it has nothing to do with the ancient region of Macedonia where Alexander the Great was a king and it happens to border with the northen political region of Greece (Macedonia), which by the way is larger than your country and geographically and historically was the main part of Macedonia for the 2-3 thousand years. And I have to remind you that greeks hate their government but also know much about history. The lame propaganda about the name came from Tito in the 20th century where he wanted a separate Macedonian "nation" and climaxed in the 80s and 90s with the blessings of USA and the incompetence of Greek's government.

The world doesn't care as most people ouside America wouldn't care if Canada was renamed California or Palestine was called Republic of Jerusalem. Anyway, thanks to the sorry situation Greece currently is (not only by its fault) we could sell you the name for a few million. We give you its history as well for a couple more.

Unless you want to open a 100page historical-political advocacy thread in a sports forum I suggest you/we stop it right here.

I want to open up a 100-page thread.

Republic of Macedonia is to Taiwan as The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is to Chinese Taipei.

Greece is much bigger country than Macedonia plus is member of EU so they can put a veto ( just like they did )on us and it doesn't matter if there is a reason or not. Now we are forced to change our name to became member of EU.  Greece is bigger than Macedonia they can do whatever they want. And for the history part, 200 countries around the world accept us as Macedonia, so i'm wondering why they did that if history is against us? Greek history is diffrent?

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