I just came home from the EuroBasket Finals in Riga, Latvia. The basketball was incredible, the venue great and people friendly, but the thing that made the biggest impression on me?

The fans.

We are talking about national teams here, the lifeblood of many nations and the glue of national identities across Europe – so we can’t quite compare this experience to the NBA.

But that won’t stop me from trying. Or at least take inspiration.

Because what I saw in that arena was not only inspirational, it was touching. First in the very entertaining Greece versus Finland bronze game, which went down to the last second and left Giannis Antetukuompo in tears, and then in the final, where Türkiye lost control of the game and Germany’s experience triumphed to the shock of the extremely loud Türkiye

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