Justified for the steady decision of AEK to fight in the BCl said the Makis Angelopoulos At a joint press conference with FIBA for Final 4, which will be May 9 and 11 at Sunel Arena.
“We are happy to organize this basketball celebration for the third time but also because our team reached the four -time Europe. We are expecting a truly competitive Final 4 and we are happy with our choice to support this competition that respects the exchange rate and national championships. It is not possible not to win European participation by the European Championships. Time by year BCL grows“, Stressed the powerful man of CAE AEK.
“Everyone has now realized that there is an important audience of basketball outside the Euroleague. In Europe, 600 teams in Europe are involved, a few teams cannot interfere with European basketball. European basketball is the only one to have a cutter. If we make the New Yugoplastika, we will not be able to play with Real. How can you cut a person in a man’s dream and oblige him to play in a private league? The Euroleague is 11 shareholders, the teams, not Bertomeu or Bodiroga. I was talking to a historical team president and tells me ‘not only are you right, but we feel we are destroying basketball and losing money. We are twice a sucker ‘. The waters that stagnate and swamp do not drive anywhere. It makes no sense to go to the Eurocup. If AEK takes the Eurocup and playing in the Euroleague, it will not get the contract for Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, it will not get 4-5 million, but 100 thousand. Even there is inequality“, He continued.
“We got an Olympic property, upgraded the closed of Ano Liosia and with a series of actions within a year we will have created the ultimate sports and cultural destination in Greece. For all this we are happy and proud“, He added.
“FIBA’s biggest success was that he succeeded in the NBA discussions to respect the national championships. The Americans also understood that there is a tradition. The NBA is a closed league, but it concerns a country, here they accepted the terms of the game and the culture of Europe“, He added for the NBA Europe.
The BCL Executive Director, Patrick Komninoshe in turn emphasized: ‘It is a great pleasure to return to Athens, where AEK and Mr. Angelopoulos support the BCL. AEK is with Tenerife and Ostend the only three teams that are consistently involved in the nine years of history of the event. AEK and Makis Angelopoulos have supported BCL from the beginning and every year he tells me ‘if we qualify, we want to organize the Final 4’. We try to set the Final 4 headquarters early every year, but it’s not always easy. We had reached an agreement with Paris, but political developments did not allow”
At the same time, he announced that the Final 4 will sponsor the company that has naming the AEK stadium. “The Final 4 will be a celebration here, 9 to 11 May. We have seen a great thirst from Greek fans to see high -level basketball, we saw four sold out this week in chefs, OAKA, Pylea and Sunel Arena. This is the first time that Final 4 will be here, thank you publicly and Sunel, a Greek company with a success story. In fact, Final 4 will be named Powered by Sunel”
On the prospect of the NBA Europe and the collaboration with FIBA he said: “We will have the opportunity during Final 4 to say a lot. As BCL we continue to work on the context and strategy we have made for the event. We had three axes on it. First the sports criteria, support of national teams, secondly the universality to access all teams, we have seen teams from exotic destinations. In the 9 seasons we have 126 groups from 39 different countries. The third strategic trigger was to participate in the restructuring of the European basketball ecosystem. We sit at the same table as the NBA, the Euroleague and anyone who has a vision for basketball. Final 4 is the crown of this year’s course and this certifies the evolution of BCL, this year’s Final 4.”
Source: Sport Fm
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