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Euroleague Basketball run by ECA (Euroleague Commercial Assets) is a private company that runs and operates the top continental-wide basketball men's professional sports club competitions in Europe, the first-tier level EuroLeague, and the second-tier level EuroCup.
It includes German men's basketball players that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for the current and past members of the Germany men's national basketball team who represented Germany in the FIBA Basketball World Cup , EuroBasket (FIBA European Championship), Olympic , and ...
The competition was introduced in 1958 as the FIBA European Champions Cup (renamed the FIBA EuroLeague in 1996), which operated under FIBA's umbrella until Euroleague Basketball was created for the 2000–01 season. The FIBA European Champions Cup and the EuroLeague are considered to be the same competition, with the change of name being simply ...
In Germany, professional basketball is known for developing players whose parents or grandparents are immigrants. The national team routinely uses many players who have family roots in Africa, Eastern Europe, United States or others, but have grown up in Germany and speak fluent German.
The 6-year contract of $4.25m per annum made Kukoc the highest-paid basketball player in the world above Patrick Ewing. 36 Thodoris Papaloukas: CSKA Moscow: Olympiacos: €1.8 [9] $2.8 2008 - Raül López: Joventut Badalona: Real Madrid: €1.8 $1.9 2000: 275 million in former Spanish peseta - Davide Pessina: Pallacanestro Cantù: Olimpia ...
A total of 18 teams will participate in the league, including 17 teams from the 2023–24 season and one promoted from the 2023–24 EuroCup. [1]On 12 April 2024, Paris Basketball achieved its first continental crown by winning its first EuroCup title after it swept Mincidelice JL Bourg in an almost perfect season with 22 wins and only one loss balance that earned the right to play in the league.
The campaign marked Ludwigsburg's best European performance in history, as it was the first time the team reached the knock-out phase of a European competition. In the 2017–18 season, Ludwigsburg set a new European club record when it advanced to the Final Four of the Champions League, after defeating Oldenburg and Bayreuth in the 16th round ...
Its greatest accomplishments were the German Cup competition title in 2000, the German national championship in 2004 and the FIBA Europe Cup in 2016. Its most famous player has been Pascal Roller, who was selected as Basketball Bundesliga All-Star seven times and played 122 games for the German national basketball team. Roller played ten ...