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The diary was written on October 18, 1997 and in autumn Paris, hThousands of people flock to Bercy Palace to watch the McDonald’s Championship, between the NBA champion team and the corresponding European team.
A tall, charming man at the age of 38 has arrived at the stadium early enough that he Chicago Bulls of Michael Jordan will face it Olympic of Dusan Ivkovic.
His name is Costas Batis and next to him Nikos Papadogianni they have assumed the role of announcers in the live broadcast of the match.
They’re both very good at their jobs and don’t get carried away easily, but all the money is what Batis says on ad breaks.
There, he leaves the role of sportscaster for a time and transforms into a passionate former basketball player who talks to a friend about Jordan’s “orgies” in his flat Bercy Palace.
«Well, what did he do? What the bastard did, is possible; »It is his first attack on Nikos Papadogiannis to continue more ferocious.
«In other words, Newton lived the wrong century. He missed a great opportunity to deal with the law of gravity with him. I have the impression that even if you put it in the water, it will work that way. Do not laugh“He says to his colleague and a few seconds later he returns:”I say, and put it in the water, it will do the same. What kind of bastard is he?
A Greek crew technician who understands that Batis has taken over Air tickles him with a buttery question about Batis’s bread: “Would you like to play there against him?”
The answer is instantaneous. “Should I? With the suit you put on me and the scurvy, I’ll play. And let it go through my head and nail the ballHe responds and everyone starts laughing.
«What are you laughing at, huh? I just want to have the photo, nothing more. I will have a dowry for my daughter and ask for a dowry. I want 10 apartment buildings to give away. Say, say the dishonorable “.
The loves of his life
As dishonorable as him Michael Jordan In that game, you are so “dishonest” that Costas Batis’s heart skipped a beat last night.
The one who stopped hitting early to send a basketball and journalism dandy to find many friends and acquaintances.
His voice? So characteristic that you didn’t forget it.
Your knowledge? Certainly, since the basketball It was his great love, the sport he dedicated himself to as a teenager with passion and an ideal body type for this particular game.
He entered the adolescent section of his beloved. Panathinaikos at age 15 and immediately stood out as a very good player.
A year later this tall boy wore the silver medal on his chest in his first participation in Greece National Children’s Team at the 1975 European Championships, a year after the coup.
Then came the National Youth but also the men’s team from Panathinaikos with whom he won four championships and two cups before leaving.
He continued playing basketball as a journalist
His involvement after the end of his career in journalism could only be directly related to the orange “goddess”, not only because he was a former player but also because he took care to expand his knowledge.
Television was the occasion to get to know the woman of his life up close Elena Papaioannou, when he was still married to his first wife, Firewood.
He was immediately approached by her as she started her divorce proceedings and the stunning beauty said “yes” to her marriage proposal.
They lived happily together since the mid-90s and for fourteen years, while the couple had two sons, a daughter, Anna-Katerina who is a 23-year-old graduate historian-archaeologist and a boy he Juan who has turned 15 years old.
Their divorce in the spring of 2010 was confirmed by Costas Batis and Elena Papaioannou, who took their two children and returned to Thessaloniki.
Years later, to be precise, the latter spoke with Eleni Menegaki about her life in Thessaloniki but also about the divorce which was, as she put it, a setback in her life.
Costas Batis maintained a very good relationship with his ex-wife and never lost contact with his children and continued to do what he knew very well.
In recent years we have not heard his voice so often on television, this voice that rarely loses its composure when broadcasting, as it happened when in one of its games PAOK the Livingston almost demolished the basket.
His teammates, dismayed by the fact of his sudden loss, send their “goodbye” to the good giant of basketball and journalism from noon.
Nikos Papadogiannis, who had described with him that Bulls game with Olympiakos in Paris, guided him with the most appropriate words: “Good rest, damn high, damn».
