2008-2009 Euroleague

The basketball competition at the level of Europe's biggest clubs has begun, 24 European clubs are grouped into 4 groups measured between them to reach the Final Four in Berlin. The league gives more teams is Spanish with five, followed by Italy with 4 and the Adriatic and Greek leagues with 3 each.

This year the competition changed format and the regular season goes from having 8 teams in three groups of 6 teams in four groups qualify for the top16 and four teams instead of six.

The top 16 is like previous years, 4 teams per group will qualify for the playoffs the two best. Also suffers from the playoffs to be played changes and go to the best of five games instead of the best three games.

Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Siena, Tau Vitoria, Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, CSKA and Maccabi are the favorites to go to Berlin, one step below to find Unicaja, DKV Joventut, Zalguiris and Efes Pilsen. The other teams will attempt to show that they too are worthy of getting at least one place in the playoffs.

The highest expectation at the beginning of the competition has led Olympiacos with its star signing from the Atlanta Hawks, Josh Childress, in addition to signing Theodoros Papaloukas of CSKA Moscow and Nicola Vujcic of Maccabi Tel-Aviv, demonstrating the economic power of that club. Other interesting a priori signings have been made by Nikola Pekovic chips Panathinaikos player who excelled last year in the ranks of Partizan Belgrade, the signings of Anderson and Navarro from Memphis CSKA Moscow and Barcelona respectively, signed the Massey Aris by the Madrid, Carlos Arroyo Orlando leaving to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv and flatness that changes the city of Vitoria by Moscow.

Apart from the aforementioned Josh Childress, Carlos Arroyo and Navarro have also decided a change of scenery and go from the NBA to Euroleague, the following players: Andre Barrett Clippers Los Angeles procendente Barcelona, ​​Casey Jacobsen and Primoz Membhis to Berlin Brezec of Toronto to Rome. As Brandom curios fact Jennings has decided to go play with Roma instead of playing his university period.