Maybe most of them European teams face limitations regarding them foreign players in their championships, however the Euroleague poses absolutely no obstacles, which leads them to constantly strengthen their roster, often at the expense of native athletes.
This very phenomenon is the subject of an interesting BasketNews survey, which essentially studied how much each of the 18 teams relies on its homegrown players.
The club that dominates, of course, is the Zalgiriswhich is proven to always give priority to Lithuanians players. This is proven by the fact that it has 9 such declared on Euroleaguewhile giving almost 50% of total participation minutes to locals! They are closely followed by Red Star, Alba Berlin and Villerbanwith these four groups being by far the ones that give more ground to the natives.
As far as the Greek clubs are concerned, Mr Panathinaikos AKTOR has 8 Greeks on his list for the top European event, while he shares between them the 31.3% of his total time. Lower is the Olympicwho features 6 local athletes, giving them just 21.8% of the time.
It is also worth noting her… tragic number Baskonia, which has all and sundry two Spaniards, only one of whom has set foot on the floor (Danny Dieth). That means he gives just 3.9% of the time of natives, which is really incredible!
See the numbers in detail:
Source: Sport Fm
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