"As presented to the clubs earlier this summer, FIBA's new top European club competition will consist of 16 teams playing each other in a round-robin format. The best eight teams will then advance to the play-offs.

There will be eight guaranteed spots among the 16 teams for FC Barcelona (Spain), Real Madrid (Spain), Olympiacos Piraeus (Greece), Panathinaikos Athens (Greece), Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv (Israel), CSKA Moscow (Russia), Anadolu Efes Istanbul (Turkey) and Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul (Turkey). 

There will be a further four guaranteed spots for the national league champions of France, Germany, Italy and Lithuania. The remaining four slots will be filled after a qualification round in which teams from 28 national leagues - with at least 23 more national champions - will participate.

The format for the play-offs will be 'best-of-three game' series, with the winners going through to the final four knockout stage."


Ja sam rekao već ako se ovo dogodi trebaju stat svi ovi savezi jedan uz drugog i reći da neće igrati više ništa pod FIBOM, ni eurobaskete, ni ništa. Pa neka igraju EB bez 6-7 sigrunih reprezentacija, a i ovako im je kvaliteta pala i prvi krug je ubi bože.

To bi sigurno utjecalo na stav igrača da idu u zemlje koje bi igrale, a azijsko tržište postaje sve jače i sve se bolje (u nekim ligama i fenomenalno) plaća pa neka se jebu.

Naravno da je to nemoguće pošto se mi i Srbi ne bi dogovorili oko toga da je nebo plavo, a trava zelena. No, zato smo si sami krivi.