Everyone covers the scores. I track what European basketball gets wrong and where it's heading. Offseason, I do my own scouting reports.
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How are the @EuroLeague French teams statistically doing in the #BetclicElite league? Let's find out.
How are the @EuroLeague Greek teams statistically doing in the @StoiximanGBL league? Let's find out.
How are the @EuroLeague Spanish teams statistically doing in the @ACBCOM league? Let's find out.
How are the @EuroLeague Italian teams statistically doing in the #LegaBasket league? Let's find out.
After R4 @EuroLeague, the top 3 players per statistical category. What a comeback for @ThiasLsf this season!
Is it just me, or did the NBA and FIBA just tell @EuroLeague they're moving on without it? "Remain committed to moving forward with a new league… alongside partners who share our vision." That's not an invitation. That's a deadline.
#NBAEurope
Monaco is gone. Three French titles, a EuroCup, five EuroLeague seasons, a Final Four. Today, insolvency.
This is not bad luck. This is the model.
Monaco did not lose its place on the court. It lost it when the money stopped. A ~€40M budget last season, built on one source, and when that source walked away there was nothing underneath. No revenue to fall back on. No league mechanism to catch it. Just a statement thanking the fans.
The @EuroLeague keeps telling us it is the pinnacle of club basketball. A pinnacle that stands on the patience of a few rich owners is not a structure. It is a bet.
Look at France today. The two EuroLeague clubs average €27.8M. The other fourteen average €6.3M. That gap is not built on fans, tickets or TV. It is built on owners. And owners come and go.
Who will be next? And who will vote on the future of the league in the meantime? The same clubs that cannot survive without a benefactor.
A league is only as stable as the money behind its weakest member. Monaco just showed us how stable that is.
Clubs should grow from what they earn, not from who backs them.
#EuroLeague #NBAEurope
The EuroLeague is a closed league with one door for merit: the EuroCup winner.
This year Bourg walked up to that door, as EuroCup champions on an €8.2M budget, and had to turn back. A 3,540-seat arena and the cost of the competition made it impossible.
France 2026-27: the 2 EuroLeague clubs average €27.8M. The other 14 average €6.3M.
When the only way in for results can't be used, the league isn't rewarding basketball. It's rewarding owners.
The owners' model doesn't protect anyone. Monaco ran on ~€40M last season and collapsed out of both the EuroLeague and the French league. Clubs that lose money every year still vote on how the league works, and they vote for their own survival, not for the competition.
Open access with relegation, revenue for promoted clubs and time to meet standards would turn that door into a pathway.
Paris Basketball and ASVEL budgets for 2026-27 season revealed 👀
New leader emerges in French League after Monaco's collapse: mrf.lu/2fjvR
Any European league that is not open to the participation of the national leagues is doomed to fail.
European basketball is not the NBA. The teams are not franchises. They are living institutions, connected with their local communities, with development teams for kids, with other sports departments under the same name. They existed before any league, and they will exist after it.
Owners and clubs are not the same thing. Investors come and go. The club, its fans and its academy stay. A franchise fee gets the owner in the room. It gives the club no more history and no more roots. The kid in the youth team doesn't care who paid.
And both projects do the same thing. NBA Europe plans 16 teams: twelve permanent seats, four earned on the court. The EuroLeague plans 24 teams: twenty-one permanent, three left open. Different logos, same model. Most of the seats are decided before a ball is thrown, and the price is a fee of tens of millions.
The EuroLeague says no to the NBA, but offers the same thing, only with its own people in charge. That is not a defense of European basketball. It is a fight about who owns the closed shop.
Look at Greece. Athens has one seat in the NBA plan and three historic clubs with recent success and huge fan bases. Decades of history and generations of fans, judged by the size of a check.
Look at Serbia. Belgrade has Crvena Zvezda and Partizan, two of the biggest names in European basketball, with some of the loudest fans on the continent. Players like Vlade Divac, Bogdan Bogdanovic and Nikola Topic came out of these clubs and went on to the NBA. Yet the city is not even on the NBA's list of target markets. The clubs produce the talent, and the main door is open only for those who bring the money.
That is what a closed league does. It doesn't ask who earned it. It asks who can afford it.
Culture is not made by a press release. It takes decades, and it belongs to the cities that built it.
Owners can buy a license. They cannot buy a legacy.
#Euroleague #NBAEurope
No surprise that one of the worst-organized sports leagues in the world managed not to make a decision. In Como, the shareholders turned down the NBA proposal, which is fine, that's a legitimate position. Then they delayed the expansion, which is the EuroLeague way: say no to the outside plan, then fail to put your own on the table.
For months we heard about 24 teams, 21 permanent franchises, nearly €700 million in binding offers, and a historic transformation. Clubs lined up, owners negotiated, and some were reportedly ready to pay tens of millions for a seat. Then the day came to vote, and the answer was "later."
Who would put serious money into a league that can't set a date, a format, or a list of names? Bids were made on the promise of clarity. Instead there's a process that's still unfinished and a competition that's still arguing with itself.
Every other league that sells franchises knows the product is certainty. The @EuroLeague keeps selling a roadmap and hoping nobody asks where it leads.