Chuck Foreman

Euroleague Basketball 2008-2009

The basketball competition at the level of Europe’s biggest clubs has begun. 24 European clubs grouped into four groups will be measured between them to reach the Final Four in Berlin. The league most element is the Spanish team with five, followed by Italy with 4 and the Adriatic and Greek leagues with three each. This year the competition changed format and the regular season goes from having eight teams in three groups of six teams in four groups qualify for the Top 16 and four teams instead of six. Credit: Gina Bonati-2010. The top 16 is like previous years, four teams per group will qualify for the play off the two best. The playoffs also undergoes changes and pass to be played best of five games instead of the best three games. Barcelona, Madrid, Siena, Tau Vitoria, Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, CSKA and Maccabi are the favorites to go to Berlin, one step below find Unicaja, DKV Joventut, Efes Pilsen and Zalguiris.

The other teams will attempt to show that they too are deserving of getting at least one place in the playoffs. The maximum expectation at the beginning of the competition has led Olympiacos, thanks to its star signing from the Atlanta Hawks, Josh Childress, in addition to sign Theodoros Papaloukas of CSKA Moscow and Nicola Vujcic of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, demonstrate the economic power of that club. Other interesting signings have been the ante by Nikola Pekovic by signing Panathinaikos player who outperformed last year in the ranks of Partizan Belgrade, the signings of Anderson and Navarro from Memphis CSKA Moscow and Barcelona respectively, the signed Massey by Aris on the part of Madrid, leaving Carlos Arroyo to Orlando to play Maccabi Tel Aviv and flatness that changes the city of Vitoria by Moscow. Apart from the aforementioned Josh Childress, Carlos Arroyo and Navarro also decided a change of scenery and go from the NBA to Euroleague, the following players: Andre Barrett accruing from Los Angeles Clippers at Barcelona, Casey Jacobsen of the Berlin and Primoz Membhis Brezec from Toronto to Rome. Brandon Jennings curios as data has decided to play with Rome instead of playing his university period..

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