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Understanding Basketball in Europe - Welcome to Loud City
The article below isn't exciting or glamorous, and I doubt it will set records for pageviews. However, it is a straightforward guide to the Euroleague. It gives you everything you need to know about the European system in as short of a space as possible, something which can only be achieved by reading hours of Wikipedia entries on your own. I hope you find it informative and helpful as we head towards the inevitable locked out season of 2011-2012.
Since several players are leaving the United States to go play in Europe, I thought it might be a good idea to get familiar with basketball in Europe. The NBA is a league of teams from almost entirely one nation, and the teams do not compete internationally. The NBA acts as the king of it's domain, declaring the winners of the league "World Champions". It does not enter in serious international competition, unless you count a few pre-season exhibition matches.
Basketball in Europe, however, is quite different. All of the countries have their own leagues, like the NBA, but instead of just playing within their own nation, the best domestic teams play against the best of the other countries in regional and continental competition. First, we'll take a look at the domestic leagues.
Domestic Leagues
Simply put, European domestic leagues are the closest thing you'll find to the NBA. Even so, the similarities are few. Both the NBA and European domestic leagues have a regular season and a post-season, and both have a post-season that consists of a tournament where a winner is decided via a three or more game series.
The differences are much easier to see. Most striking is that the two worst teams in the league are relegated to a lower tier of play at the end of the season. That's right, there is absolutely no incentive to lose, for if you do it too much, you won't be rewarded with LeBron James. Instead, you'll be shown the door and replaced. Additionally, there are no conferences or divisions. All of the teams are placed into a pool, and ranked strictly on record.
Below: More Info on Domestic Leagues, Regional Leagues, the Euroleague, flow charts, and what it all means for players going international!
Now that you know what domestic leagues are, you must be wondering exactly how important they are. The answer depends largely on the country. The domestic league is always considered secondary to international competition, but some countries have more competitive domestic leagues than others. For example, Spain, which has the most talented domestic league in Europe, has a highly competitive league, with regularly different champions. But in other countries, the domestic league is almost a joke. Greece is regularly dominated by Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, so much so that no other team has made the finals since the 04-05 season, no team defeated Panathinaikos or Olympiacos in the 10-11 season, and at one point all of the players of the other teams in Greece went on strike, but it utterly failed because Panathinaikos and Olympiacos are so dominant.
The reason leagues like Greece are so stacked towards a couple of teams is because a smaller nation like Greece can't afford to keep a competitive domestic league while also being competitive internationally. The national leagues generally shake out to be lower priority, below regional leagues and continental leagues, so smaller nations like to consolidate their resources into one team.
However, the domestic league is still important for non A-licensed teams (explained later), for if they don't place high enough, they won't get into the highest level of regional or continental competition.
Regional Leagues
Regional leagues are specific to mostly former Soviet republics. They exist because the teams either used to enjoy intense rivalries before the iron curtain fell, or because the domestic leagues of certain countries aren't competitive enough, and the good teams from those countries want more of a challenge. The regional leagues are contained within themselves. They use rankings from domestic leagues to determine who gets a birth, but they do not affect the Euroleague or other continental leagues. Regional leagues are considered above domestic leagues in importance, but they are not considered as important as the Euroleague.
The Euroleague
The flowchart above explains the Euroleague qualifying system in laments terms, but the text below should provide more in depth answers.
The Euroleague uses the rankings of last year's domestic leagues to determine who gets into the annual tournament, but there are 13 teams that get into the league regardless of rank. These teams have something called an "A License", which is determined based on performance, TV revenue, and home attendance. So, if a club like Lottomatica Roma is having a down year and doesn't place in the top three of Italy's domestic league, they still get into the Euroleague by virtue of their fan support. Of course, A licenses can be suspended. A good example is Virtus Roma, who had their A license suspended last year because they finished in the lower half of their domestic league.
Domestic leagues are accorded a certain amount of automatic berths into the Euroleague based on fans, TV ratings, and talent. The top three leagues in Europe, Spain's Liga ACB, Italy's Liga A, and Greece's HEBA A1, get two births based on position. Other leagues get automatic berths for their domestic league champions, but only 8 teams gets berths based on domestic league ranking, so it depends in some cases on how well A licensed clubs did that year.
Other teams, who placed slightly lower in a top league or got first place in a less prestigious domestic league will get placed in the Euroleague Qualifying Round, which is two eight seeded tournaments, the winners of both whom are awarded admission into the regular Euroleague season. Some leagues, such as the British Basketball League, are not considered good enough to even get into the Euroleague qualifying round, so they are left out of the Euroleague altogether.
Once the qualifiers are over, teams are placed into four groups of six teams, and they play each other team in the group two times. The top four teams from each group are taken and placed in four groups of four, where each team plays each other team in the group two times. The top two teams are then taken from each group and placed in the quarterfinals, where they play a best-of-five series. The winners of those series are then placed in the Euroleague final four, which is a four team single-elimination bracket that determines the European champion.
Confused?
There's lots of technicalities involved, but if you want to understand European basketball on its' most basic level, look at the flowchart above. Anytime you hit a blue box (besides start), you've hit a certain league that your hypothetical team might be playing in.
Also, here's a real-life example.
CSKA Moscow is the current team of former Thunder center Nenad Krstic. This season, they will be playing in Russia's domestic league, the Russian Professional Basketball League. Because they were the champions of Russia's League last year, they have qualified for their regional tournament. As they are from a former Soviet republic (Russia), they will participate in the VTB United League, the tournament for former Soviet teams. They have also qualified for the Euroleague by virtue of having a Class A license, but even if they didn't have the Class A license, they would qualify by having won their domestic league last year.
In other words, CSKA Moscow will be playing in Russia's domestic league to qualify for the VTB United League and the Euroleague next year, but they will also be playing in both of those leagues this year, as they qualified for them last year.
So, what does this mean for players going international?
Well, if the players want to have a shot at the Euroleague, they should sign with a team that is in the Euroleague, or at least a team that is in the qualifying rounds. For a current list of teams, click here.
Right now, two former Thunder players have signed in Europe. As stated earlier, Nenad Krstic has signed with CSKA Moscow. Furthermore, Mustafa Shakur has signed with Pau Orthez of France, which will be playing in the EuroChallenge, the third and last tier of continental European basketball.
Besiktas, the Turkish team that has signed Deron Williams and pursued Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant, is not in the Euroleague this year. In fact, they are only in the qualifying round for the Eurocup, which is the second tier of Continental competition. Most players going there are looking at big money, rather than competition.
Other notable players signed in Europe include Sonny Weems, who will be playing for Zalgiris Kaunas of Lithuania in the Euroleague, Sasha Vujacic, who will be playing for Anadolu Efes Istanbul of Turkey in the Euroleague, Darius Songaila, who will be playing for Galatasaray of Turkey in the Euroleague Qualifying round, Timofey Mozgov, who will be playing for BC Khimiki of Russia in the Euroleague Qualifying Round, Jordan Farmar, who will be playing for Maccabi Tel-Aviv of Israel in the Euroleague, and Nicholas Batum, who will be playing for SLUC Nancy of France in the Euroleague. A complete list of current foreign signees can be found here.
I hope this article is informative and helpful for you as we trudge through this locked-out season. More Euroleague and Eurobasket coverage is to come!
Anton Ponkrashov: "To get into the Euroleague, you need to fight with top teams" - Basketball
UNICS defender Anton Ponkrashov said that the Kazan team must fight with the top teams of the VTB League in order to fulfill its main task for the season - to get into the Euroleague.
“The main task is to get into the Euroleague. In order to do this, you need to fight with top teams, it’s not enough just to go out and play well, you need to prepare, take every match seriously. In principle, what we are doing, we have a well-organized process, according to the plan, we are now preparing for Zenit, without thinking about other teams at the moment, ”Ponkrashov is quoted by the UNICS official website.
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From the 2021/22 season, the world familiar to all football fans will collapse with the advent of the third European competition under the auspices of UEFA, called the Conference League. Quotas and regulations will change, and people will need time to understand and get used to where their favorite club will play, taking a conditional sixth place in the English Premier League or fourth in the Ukrainian one.
But basketball is much more complicated. More international tournaments. Organizers, oddly enough, too. FIBA does not have a monopoly on the holding of European competitions, which UEFA has - the official organization is in a weak position, seriously inferior in terms of influence on top clubs to a private office called Euroleague Basketball.
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The Euroleague is like the Football Superleague, only real. The best of the best play here
In football, talk about creating a supra-tournament that would unite only true giants under its banners - with a century-old history, a huge army of fans and crazy budgets - is just being conducted. And sometimes one gets the feeling that this process will remain so at the level of conversations. And in basketball, such a competition has existed for a long time. It is called the Euroleague and is run by the Euroleague Basketball organization based in Spain (headquartered in Barcelona).
It exists in parallel worlds with FIBA and does not coordinate its actions - that is why Barcelona center Artem Pustovoy does not come to the Ukrainian national team for matches that are held in the middle of the club season.
At the moment there are 18 clubs in the Euroleague, but the foundation of the tournament is 11 giants - "licensed teams" that stood at the origins of the tournament, have ten-year contracts with Euroleague Basketball and are not required to confirm their belonging to the elite with results in national championships. These are the Spanish Real, Barcelona and Baskonia, the Greek Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, the Turkish Fenerbahce and Anadolu Efes, the Lithuanian Zalgiris, the Israeli Maccabi, the Italian Milan and the Russian CSKA. .
Of the remaining seven Euroleague berths, four are distributed on a sporting basis (the winner of the Adriatic League, the best team in the VTB United League excluding CSKA, the winner of the German Bundesliga, the winner of the Eurocup), and Euroleague Basketball distributes three more as a wild card. "Wild cards" go either to representatives of promising, according to the organization, markets, or to those who are ready to pay well - this season they are owned by the German Bayern, the French ASVEL, owned by the notorious to Tony Parker , and the Russian Zenit.
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The key reason why the Euroleague has such strict selection criteria for participants, and there are practically no random clubs among them - this is a very difficult and exhausting tournament format. To combine performances in the national championship with 34 rounds of the Euroleague regular season (for the eight best teams it continues with a playoff quarterfinal series up to three victories for one of the teams, and the Final Four for their victors), you need to have players for almost one and a half applications and the financial ability to sign contracts with basketball players, as they say, in reserve.
Even basketball "Cinderellas" like the Montenegrin "Buduchnost" or the Russian "Nizhny Novgorod", who made their way to the Euroleague according to sports quotas (as the champion of the Adriatic League and the silver medalist of the VTB League, respectively), are not very welcome here. After all, all their magic is dispelled at the distance of the tournament in weekly battles with the giants - and the organizers get only passing matches, which are not particularly attractive to the public.
Ukraine was represented in the Euroleague only once - in the 2013/14 season, the last one in the "golden era" of our basketball, Budivelnik tried its hand there. But without much success: even in the format with the main group round and the Top 16 stage, the Kievans won only two victories in ten matches (at home over the Serbian Partizan and the French Nanterre) and finished last. And now our clubs have nothing to catch at this level.
The Eurocup is a natural selection environment for the most ambitious
Another tournament under the auspices of Euroleague Basketball currently ranks second in the European basketball hierarchy - and will hold it as long as a victory in the Eurocup will guarantee participation in the next Euroleague draw. This is the only direct connection between the two top tournaments: the transfer of participants during the season, as happens between the football Champions League and the Europa League, is not practiced here.
Historically, the Eurocup is a battlefield between Spanish and Russian clubs, as there are more licenses to compete in the Euroleague in these two countries. Representatives of the DIA League or the VTB League won in 12 out of 17 draws, the company of which was diluted by the Turks in the last five years: Galatasaray won the tournament in 2016, and Daryushsafak won the tournament in 2018.
This season, 24 teams started in the Eurocup, exactly half of which were delegated by France, Spain and Italy. Four more teams are represented by the Adriatic, Russia and Turkey by two. A very decent company, in which only the Belgian "Antwerp" and the Lithuanian "Letkabelis" managed to break through from the relatively modest national championships (both, however, have already taken off from the tournament).
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In the Eurocup, they play according to a formula similar to the previous Euroleague regulations - the main round for ten rounds (four groups of six teams each), the Top 16 stage, which started in January 2021 (four groups of four teams each), and a playoff consisting of mini-series up to two wins for any team.
Our only basketball player participating in the current draw of the tournament is Vladimir Gerun from the Spanish Unicaja. But there is also a solid Ukrainian representation in Monaco, where the former leadership of Donetsk moved to: the ex-president of the Tigers Sergey Dyadechko and team manager Alexey Efimov . And the Monegasques are coached by Montenegrin Zvezdan Mitrovic , who worked with almost half of the clubs of the Golden Superleague, from Khimik to Azovmash, and speaks fluent Russian.
The history of relations between Ukrainian clubs and the Eurocup is much longer - Azovmash, Kyiv, Donetsk and Khimik played here with varying success in different years. And the best result belongs to Budivelnik: in the 2012/13 season, a bright team with Malcolm Delaney made it all the way to the semi-finals, where she lost to Spanish Bilbao.
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One of the reasons for the long-term conflict between Euroleague Basketball and FIBA is precisely the desire of the latter to control the entire pyramid of international club competitions in Europe. But with the solution of this problem, officials failed immediately, failing to offer anything intelligible to 11 “licensed” giants who signed ten-year contracts with the Euroleague in November 2015.
Even the threat of disqualification from national federations did not help. Some tops openly said that they were ready to stop playing in the national championship in order to be able to fight every week with clubs comparable in status, instead of smashing the champions of Denmark and other Austrians for ridiculous prize money. Therefore, FIBA lagged behind the Euroleague relatively quickly, undertaking to undermine the Eurocup - and some of this even worked out.
The product of this is the Basketball Champions League, which borrowed only the name from the Football League. In the 2020/21 season, only four reigning champions of their countries received direct tickets to the main round, and these countries are Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Latvia. Not elite at club level. There were more champions in qualifying - but the champions of Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Switzerland, Cyprus.
FIBA achieved local success in another way: it managed to lure decent Turkish, Italian and Spanish organizations into the Champions League, and three out of four draws ended in victories for representatives of these championships (Tenerife and Burgos from the DIA League and Burgos won one each). Virtus" from League A). The overall average level of participants here is probably still a little lower than in the Eurocup, but this difference is not as great as it was two or three years ago.
Ukrainian clubs participated in the main round of the Basketball Champions League only once - Khimik in the 2016/17 season was the last in its group, winning only three matches out of 14. Budivelnyk, Kyiv-Basket and Dnipro there were unsuccessful attempts to overcome the qualification, and the “bees” were the most unlucky in the last draw: already in the selection they got future champions (!) from Burgos as rivals, and after a high-quality home match they were defeated with a difference of 34 points on the road.
Dnipro were at the start of the Champions League this season, but were crushed by the Dutch Groningen in the first qualifying match. Team of Denis Zhuravlev was struck down by COVID-19 at the most inopportune moment - and for one of the most important fights of the year, they were not at all ready either physically or psychologically.
FIBA Europe Cup - Ukrainian clubs play here now
The fourth European tournament in terms of status gathers a pool of participants from those clubs that would like to play at the international level, but the Euroleague with the Eurocup is not pulled, and they do not qualify for the Champions League either by level (in the main round of the European Cup is being dropped by the losers in the Champions League qualification - this is how Dnipro ended up here), either due to infrastructural issues, or they themselves feel that they are not ready for more serious competition.
There are no global requirements for participants in the FIBA Europe Cup. In the 2020/21 season, for example, the 12th team of Italy (Reggio Emilia, one of the nominal favorites of the tournament), the seventh team of Hungary (Shollocks), the fifth team of the VTB League (Parma), the champions of Portugal will play here and Belarus (Sporting and Borisfen), as well as all three winners of the Ukrainian Super League. All that is needed is a more or less decent arena - judging by the admission of teams from the Dnipropetrovsk region, it can even accommodate less than a thousand spectators - and, of course, desire.
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The FIBA Europe Cup starts on 26 January. It will feature 24 clubs, which are divided into six groups - each of them will play in a separate "bubble" to reduce the risk of basketball players and coaches becoming infected with the coronavirus. "Prometheus" and "Kyiv-Basket" got into pool B, where they will play with the Bulgarian "Rilski" and the Austrian "Kapfenberg" on the home court of the former, and "Dnepr" will compete with the Polish "Anvil", the British "London Lions" and the Swiss " Friborg" in Wloclawek.
As many as 16 out of 24 teams will make it to the playoffs - so even the third place in the group may be enough for the representatives of the Superleague to continue fighting for the trophy.
We insist on preparing and evaluating the players ourselves, to be able to guarantee for them.
However, it is a straightforward guide to the Euroleague. It gives you everything you need to know about the European system in as short of a space as possible, something which can only be achieved by reading hours of Wikipedia entries on your own. I hope you find it informative and helpful as we head towards the inevitable locked out season of 2011-2012.
First, we'll take a look at the domestic leagues.
The answer depends largely on the country. The domestic league is always considered secondary to international competition, but some countries have more competitive domestic leagues than others. For example, Spain, which has the most talented domestic league in Europe, has a highly competitive league, with regularly different champions. But in other countries, the domestic league is almost a joke. Greece is regularly dominated by Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, so much so that no other team has made the finals since the 04-05 season, no team defeated Panathinaikos or Olympiacos in the 10-11 season, and at one point all of the players of the other teams in Greece went on strike, but it utterly failed because Panathinaikos and Olympiacos are so dominant.
A complete list of current foreign signees can be found here.
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And in basketball, such a competition has existed for a long time. It is called the Euroleague and is run by the Euroleague Basketball organization based in Spain (headquartered in Barcelona). 
"Wild cards" go either to representatives of promising, according to the organization, markets, or to those who are ready to pay well - this season they are owned by the German Bayern, the French ASVEL, owned by the notorious to Tony Parker , and the Russian Zenit. 
This is the only direct connection between the two top tournaments: the transfer of participants during the season, as happens between the football Champions League and the Europa League, is not practiced here. 
Some tops openly said that they were ready to stop playing in the national championship in order to be able to fight every week with clubs comparable in status, instead of smashing the champions of Denmark and other Austrians for ridiculous prize money. Therefore, FIBA lagged behind the Euroleague relatively quickly, undertaking to undermine the Eurocup - and some of this even worked out. 
Virtus" from League A). The overall average level of participants here is probably still a little lower than in the Eurocup, but this difference is not as great as it was two or three years ago. 
All that is needed is a more or less decent arena - judging by the admission of teams from the Dnipropetrovsk region, it can even accommodate less than a thousand spectators - and, of course, desire. 
