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I know what Fethullahci are, and how Erdogan justificates the purge. I'm wondering how much it affects basketball.

94 members of football federation including referees have been fired, and Mario Gomez top football league scorer leaves the country due to political situation according to Hurriyet.
Is there a purge also in the Turkish basketball, and have some players already expressed out loud that their departure or choice not to come in Turkey is due to political situation or concerns for their security and freedom?

Yes, I'm very optimistic for a good seed and a good Mavs run in the west.

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I hope a better future for eurpoean basketball, and a better future for Turkey.

That change everything. Can we fallback and admit we lost?

I think is a former Illinois Fighting illinus, illini being the plural.

No, this year offensive concerns only Eurocup. Euroleague will come later.

Don't make the mistake to consider that list is the final one.

He is in United States for "juridical reasons"...
Probably to sign with an NBA franchise.
With the 5 draftees this year (if they get a contract and start playing next year, of course), that may make a 18 total French players in NBA.

You now know the names of the 12 olympic champions.

He should have bend his knee to Butler to stay, but he couldn't, the knee was hurting to much.

Galatasaray is playing Euroleague next year.

Russian teams are always widely dominating this league (7 first places this year), contrary to ABA league I don't really see the point of VTB.

Oh, and by the way the message was titled "pathetic idiot".
I believed at first it was the sender's new name.

CanCan/Italiano/Gagarin sent me this private message under his Italiano account:
"Stop accusing me of being different persons. In the past, you claimed that I am CanCan. And now, you claim that I am Gagarin. Let me tell you one fact. French people are disliked by every nation because you are annoying people. There is no exception to this fact. However, you are not just annoying but also mentally ill. Mind your own business. And please save your shitty opinions to yourself. French basketball sucks and so do French teams. You can just dream about a Euroleague which is shitty enough to include French teams. This would never happen haha !"
It would be remiss on my part not to share something as funny as that.

There is no point changing name CanCan/Italiano/Gagarin if you write the exact same thing every time.

I agree, this is completely unfair. So far I know, no other sport accepts something like that. And we don't even talk the fact that referees are paid by Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA), which is owned by some of the clubs playing it...

Most of them don't earn nothing, they just own Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA), they ARE Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA). In the case of Darussafaka, their name sponsor (Dogus) is also a sponsor of Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA): Dogus litterally buy a place for the club by sponsoring the competition they want them into.

Qualifications earned on the court? Are you crazy? It's against the very idea of Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA). Clubs that own this company won't ever allow that to happen.

They're not even qualified to Adriatic League... More and more absurd.

I already made my point, so consider this last message is also a goodbye. You still fake to not understand what I write, like faking to believe I said Netherlands, Macedonia, United Kingdom, Bulgaria or Romania champions (which by the way are respectively Donar, Skopje Aerodrom, Sheffield Sharks, Lukoil Academic Sofia and Oradea; yes I know that, once again I love and follow basketball, and I really don't see how your ignorance can be an argument) should be in Euroleague. I just never wrote that. And you still avoid telling me how the 14 or 12 or 10 or 6 or whatever their number (it doesn't change nothing at all, even if it's funny you divided by two your wish in few hours) licenses should be atributed, on which criteria, and who the hell can arrogate himself the right to chose. Let me guess: you consider the Maccabi team you're a fanboy of in the teams that should have a license? (It's a rethoric question, answer is pretty obvious). The discussion is completely sterile. I believe qualifications and rewards should be obtained on the court, not in hotels meeting rooms closed to public. And if you don't, well that's not my problem. Shalom.

Well, this is just pointless and hatefull. I know French clubs are not or wouldn't be competitive in Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA), I never said the contrary. And let me tell you a confession: I don't care, I'm not a fanboy. If some day I decide to turn fanboy, I'll have plenty to do with the NT. But thanks making my point showing some people are teams or nations fans before to be basketball enthousiasts.You see, you are usefull after all.

You take UEFA Champion's League (and Europa League) as an exemple. Wonderful. Teams are qualified through their domestic competitions results, and the number of qualified teams is determined by the results in european competitions of teams from each country.
That's all I ask for.
The minute you grant licenses, you shoot sportmanship in the head. Who is Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA) to say this one has a license, this other don't.Why Zalgiris Kaunas and not Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar? Why Darussafaka (not formally a license but auto wild-card due to Dogus sponsor) and not Valencia? Why Cheap Perfume Milano and not Belgrad Red Star? Why Efes Istanbul and not Khimky Moscow? etc etc.
Do anyone knows the criteria? No. It's dishonest, unfair, and everything but transparent.No football team has free pass to Champions League, yet there still is european "power houses", like they say. It's just that from time to time they don't qualify, it avoid them to be ridiculous sometimes, like Maccabi was this year.

We mostly agree: some clubs buildt titles history and fan legacy out of illegitimate licenses whereas other teams could have done the same if they were given the opportunity to. I don't say it doesn't exist, I say it should be irrelevant if looked through a sportmanship eye.
But there is something I don't get: if they are such great clubs, why are they afraid to have to sportily qualify themselves?
Plus: how many clubs should have licences ? As Maccabi fan of course you said "10 or 12", but a Real or CSKA supporter would say only 2 or 3, a Zalgiris fan will say 14 is the exact perfect number, Cheap Perfume Milano or Bamberg or Galatasaray supporters may say something like 18 or 20.
You defend your club's position because you're a Maccabi fan before to be a basketball fan. Take a little step back and you'll see: 1) No one can decide who can be or can't be granted a license, because everyone will set the limit according to it's own interests. 2) If they are such wonderful clubs out there, they will qualify without a problem.

Plus, the reading of national championship results is biased by illegitimate Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA) incomes perceived by the 14 clubs sitting on the pot of gold. Instead of having a virtuous circle of money coming to the better team on the court, you have a vicious circle of capacity to build a better team out of money for the team that already had the money in the first place with wich they bought their licence.

Granting places for clubs with "fan legacy" instead of sporting results is exactly what i said. It's done that way so more fans Watch it on TV to increase Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA) incomes.
Last year Maccabi didn't won the Winner League but was the only Israeli team on Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA). Result: 5 out of 6 in the first round and eliminated by teams like Malaga, Bamberg, and... Darussafaka (lol). And eliminated from eurocup straight right after.
Always keeping the same teams running in circle in the same televised competitions no matter their real level is what creates the fan legacy thing you talk about. Free some place for better but moneyless teams and the "fan legacy" will develop on them too.
But that suppose to have a long term vision for the sport, and not just a will to milk the dumb fans: that's what an private company is by definition incapable of.

"this club has earned his EL ticket only by money"
It's the very principle of Euroleague (Commercial Assets and Properties SA).

Florent Pietrus probably recommended him.

I should have bet.

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If you are talking about me, I said few days or weeks ago it wasn't done yet. And I'm pretty sure you felt the same on your couch until the last 0:14 seconds of the second finals' game. But if you talk about the Galatasaray hater, please don't confuse me with him, it's offending.

Great achievement for Turkish basketball, first time ever they win a second tier or higher level european competition.

Ok, safe trip th Philly Dario, and don't forget your lube for next year.

They are leading Istanbul championship right now, and were runners-up last year, with victory in cup and euroleague quarter finalists. Ain't that bad!

For the next year, if I was FIBA, I would pay for them the about 10% clubs income fine the euroleague corporation blackmails them. To kill the parasite takes money and time, now it's only Eurocup, next year it will be about taking down Euroleague itself.

They would have penalty to pay to Euroleague Inc? Is that a joke?

Money in every sentence.
Not even money to finance basketball, just their money.
Everything is said.
Take for granted Lithuanian NT is, without a behaviour change, excluded from all international tournament: FIBA is started and won't stop.

France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia, Lithuania...
Only lacks Spain and the victory will be complete.

Euroleague corporation is a parasite that loots basketball money where he is, at the higher level, without giving back even one euro to young's and amateur (and woman) basketball, without which pro basketball wouldn't exist. If FIBA disappeared and would remain only Euroleague, our sport would cease to exist on our continent. I know for sure that the whole authorities of sport, even outside basketball are willing to stop only when the cancer that is Euroleague corporation is totally reaped off, and that best news in years.

Well it starts good, but technically I suggest you wait a little before cheering up.

An occasion for him to step up his carrier to a high level.

I'm so happy I saw that live.

That argument would work about every national team.
Actually it's about French national team that it's the less accurate, because of the FIBA project to set up in season national team qualifyers, that disadvantage mostly France that have the biggest number of strangers players in NBA (11).
Almost the entire team would be unavailable for playing these games FIBA wants.
If FFBB backs up FIBA and not Euroleague Inc. it's because first they prefer sporting criterias prevailing for accessing the competitions rather than buying places for years, and second because they know France B team still can qualify easily.

Strasbourg 9 pts away win at Nizhny Novgorod in Eurocup quarter finals.
I agree they are not competitive in Euroleague, but they are in Eurocup.

Strasbourg is in quarter finals, we'll see how they do this afternoon against Nizhny Novgorod ;)
In a general way, 8 or 10 French teams have almost the same level and French championship has a good general level but doesn't really have very good clubs. Even if I think you weren't really talking basketball but just low life trolled right here CanCan...

Limoges won't even make the Pro A playoffs this year...
Euroleague(/cup) should not make invitations or wild cards but qualifications according to sport results.

You don't know that, maybe he cares about professionalism. But I'm glad to know you got plenty of time, so I will let you do the hating all alone from now, my dear CanCan.

I wrote that for the journalist that wrote the news, but I didn't think someone would have enough time to lose to answer.

The name of the local newspaper is La République du centre, not center, even if centre means center in English.

ASVEL and Chalon/Saône can make it through their common semi-final. For the final, Francfort can win it.