The great basketball competition in Europe, The Euroleague, gets underway this Thursday with the Madrid as defender of the title and a good handful of teams, which have strengthened themselves well, with the clear objective of dethroning it. The season will come full of interesting events, some marked by the morbidity of what happened last season. These are some of the essential dates on the European basketball calendar.
Panathinaikos-Olympiacos (October 6)
The Euroleague It will open with the Greek basketball classic, which comes loaded with tension due to what happened in the last league final last June and with two very reinforced teams. Olympiacos retained the title of champion last June after a fourth game in the OAK which had to be suspended due to the throwing of objects and firecrackers and due to serious altercations with local fans that caused damage to the pavilion. The police evacuated the venue, although the incidents continued, so it was decided to end the match and award the victory to the training team. Bartzokas, whose image, pointed out by numerous laser pointers from the stands. it went viral.
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The Greek final match at the Oaka was suspended. 35-63 in the third quarter between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos, the game is stopped and the pavilion is emptied
Later some fans ripped out seats and caused more incidents ❌pic.twitter.com/bMzSFQrvbf
— Pick&Cast (@PickAndCast) June 15, 2023
The classics (October 26 and January 3)
No matter how many times they meet during the season, each match between Barça y Real Madrid is lived intensely and is a special event. The two ended up taking center stage last season, meeting in one of the semifinals of the ‘final four’ that fell on the white side. The Blaugranas took revenge in the League final. This season, the Madrid They are already 2-0 against their eternal rival: they beat them in a semi-final of the Euroleague and last Sunday in Endesa League. Their first date in European competition will be on October 26 at the Center. And the second leg will be held on January 3 at the Palau Blaugrana.
What is Belgrade’s first team? (October 26th)
A dozen players have incorporated the Red Star of Dusko Ivanovic in this preseason, with illustrious names, which place him at the top of the starting grid: Hanga, Teodosic, Davidovac, Simonovic, Napier, Giedraitis, Bolomboy, Robey, Two Saints and Bjelica. Partizan has hit the ball, retaining Kevin Punter, who had an agreed offer with Barça, and signed two NBA players: Kaminsky (Houston) y PD Editr (Sacramento). In the last League final, the Partisan He lifted the title in the fifth and final match with an exhibition by Punter against Red Star of Campazzo and Vildoza.
The Hernangómez brothers, face to face (November 3)
He Barça will receive Panathinaikos at the beginning of November in the Palau Blaugrana. Or what is the same, the Euroleague will experience the first duel between the Hernangomez brothers after his return from the NBA. The two brothers’ wish to share a dressing room could not be fulfilled. Willand ended up in the Palau Blaugrana to become a key piece of the project he heads Roger Grimau and Juancho opted for the million-dollar offer from the reinforced Panathinaikos project, with Ergin Ataman on the bench and luxury additions: Sloukas, Vildoza, Kyle Guy, Matthias Lessort…
The reissue of the last Euroleague final (December 5)
He Palace of Peace and Friendship will be the scene of Olympiacos-Madrid, the last final of the competition, which was decided with a basket (the only one) of Sergio Lull with three left, 3.1 seconds that sealed the victory of the team of Chus Mateo by 78-79 and secured the eleventh European title for the whites after a game of many alternatives. The Greeks had one last shot to win the game, but Sloukas failed and the title went to Madrid, something that had not happened since 2018.
Pablo Laso returns to Wizink (December 14)
He Bayern Munich will visit Real Madrid in it Wizink Center, in a meeting full of morbidity for the return to the white palace of the Vitorian coach after his controversial departure in April after eleven years in the club, which he returned to the front line with two Euroleagues, six Leagues and 22 titles in total . The club argued for his dismissal due to heart problems incompatible with the position. Ribbon He left the club very upset, both because of the form and the substance. The Euroleague will put them face to face again and Bayern appears in the capital with a team greatly reinforced with the presence of Serge Ibakaa former madridista like Dino Radoncic and the exazulgrana Leandro Bolmaro.
Nikola Mirotic meets with the Barça fans (December 15)
The controversy also took over the Barça in the final stretch of the season. After the defeat in the ‘final four’ the club informed Mirotic that he did not have him for this season, despite having a valid contract. The lack of agreement with the Montenegrin to achieve a reduction in his figures led the board to terminate its star’s contract unilaterally. In an interview, Mirotic He assured that he did not have any proposal from the club. After a summer with many rumors, the power forward accepted the offer from Armani Milan to place themselves at the command of Ettore Messina and reinforce a project that aspires to fight for the ‘final four’, while its conflict is resolved in court. The Milan team will visit in mid-April, on the return of Mirotic in the Palace
THE TREMENDOUS FIGHT in Real Madrid – Partizan ????
What images in the WiZink Center!#EuroligaDAZN ???? pic.twitter.com/1iq0CXutJ8
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) April 27, 2023
Kevin Punter, Sergio Llull and another Partizan-Madrid (December 21)
If there is a confrontation that lit up the Euroleague last season, it was the one that took place in the playoffs between the Madrid and Partizan. The team of Obradovic They dominated the series 2-0 after the first two games in the capital. The second is already part of the black history of the Euroleague, a fight that began between Kevin Punter and Sergio Llull and that involved all the players, with a special role of left over, that injured Dante Exum. The referees sent off all the players except for Llull, Poirier and Leday. The Euroleague sanctions were very light: five games to It was left over and one to Deck on the Madrid side and two to Kevin Punter and another to Lessort. Nobody had come back from 2-0 in history. But Madrid resorted to the epic and signed the 3-2, qualifying for the ‘final four‘ after coming back from 18 points down in the fifth game.
2023-10-05 06:42:16
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