EuroLeague, EuroCup, Champions League and many domestic leagues in Europe face the same problem – lack of young talent. These players rather choose NCAA, G-League or other leagues, which offer better financial situation. Could this lead to the extinction of European basketball? Watch and find out.
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just open the league and market your players
That's a valid point, but the Name, Image, and Likeness benefits are more than what they can earn in Europe IF they are Andrew Wiggins and Derek Rose-calibre talent, right? The rest make less than what they could in Europe. Or am I missing something?
Yes, our beloved European basketball is at a crossroads, but I sincerely hope they focus on core sport values and don't sell out like to become a quasi-NBA.
I can't believe that in Europe it has some issues like in my country's problem which is aging players still in the league 😂
NIL is for American athletes only. Zach Edey from Purdue, now the Grizzles made like 0. Due to being Canadian.
La BAL que hacen NBA Y FIBA Africa, creo que esta perdiendo dinero, va muy poco publico y la gente no tiene dinero y los estadios son pequeños.
La FIBA BCL, parece que va bien y el ganador gana mas de 1 millon de Euros, pero tiene muy poca visualizacion……..
3:29 Japanese baseball got out ahead of this issue decades ago when they negotiated the posting system with MLB. This way they were not only guaranteed to hold onto their young superstars for a number of years, but they would also be compensated very well for rhem when they finally did leave for the US. Europe should have followed their lead in basketball. Especially since the posting system is basically a bare bones version of FIFA's transfer system. With a financial incentive, you'll see alot more youth get develpment minutes.
This is wrong. International players can’t make work in US on a US student visa.
Europe is too soccer centric. Is soccer that great a game? Maybe the rest of the Anglo Saxon world outside of the UK is missing something?
Is it really "win now" in euroleague? Usually, the top clubs fighting for the title have a core of players together for years. PAO is the only champion in recent years with a complete new roster. Real, Cska, Fener, Olympiacos… usually they didnt change much in their succesful seasons.
Euroleague should have more financial incentive for clubs to give minutes to youth players that were developed in the country the club is from. I hope that could spark some new European prospects coming through the ranks in the Euroleague like Luka and Wemby
Nothing will happen… US will just have less Americans in the league…. While Dubai's thing is more then we think and in a bad way. It is a ticket for Americans to meld with EL and to get a voice and we all know where that one is going, we see what they made of NBA that is gon3 down to a historical low level. Only reason it appears that they r doing better then ever is because of Asia n similar newbies markets opend in last couple of decades and we were lucky we got some brutes like Ja, Bronson, Luka, Jokic etc…. Yes guys, yes, it is not Dubai, it is US owned and Euro league is not Premier League so i expect it to be real bad. Quality of the game down, officiating down, money UP, along with the expenses for teams etc…. I hope that all this that i wrote here ages bad as it can but ……
'We won't pay the players more because it's dangerous to handle a 18 year old a lot of money. Trust me it's for your own good' is a hilarious excuse that not even my boss would utter
What about the NBA Europe rumors?
I live in Switzerland/Europe and been playing/watching basketball since '92. Anybody over here only watches the NBA because the players are so much better. I couldn't tell you who our National Champion is. There's not even news coverage or any games on TV. Our best athletes become soccer players, the tall one's goalkeepers. Second best athletes become Tennis players or Track and Field athletes, then Hockey, Cycling, Skiing and so on. It's very rare someone really talented becomes a Basketball player. Europe has double the population of the US, if our Basketball teams were any good 2/3 (66%) of the NBA players would be Europeans. In reality it's not even 15%. Since '92 there have been 8 Olympic Summer games. USA won 7, Argentina, which is not in Europe, 1 and every time they send their A-Team the US wins the World Championship as well.
All I'm seeing is that USA is destroying their future young player's pathways, and they won't be the powerhouse of basketball anymore
There's a couple of things in this video that are not correct. 1. NIL is only for domestic(meaning USA Players). So that means that international College players actually don't make money off of NIL. At least not yet. 2. Players have been getting paid for NIL since 2021, what's at stake in the courts in the US right now is whether or not player can get paid DIRECTLY by the schools. And thats not a done deal either because it still hasn't been approved in the courts. Blessings!
European Basketball is more than EuroLeague
For me there's no need for a young European player to go to NCAA playing against other players who've the same age, it's much better for them to play in Europe against older players.
This is an easy decision for rising talents like Lamelo or Alex Sarr to hit the NBL because the games actually prepare them for the NBA. Balls can't be knocked off of the rim like in Europe and you don't have to put the ball on the floor before you take a step. It makes sense they would elect to be where the game style is most suitable for where they are heading. ✅
I think behind the nba league is lebanese league bc right now it is completly equal and every single game is coming to the wire and they have the best importmants amd the best fams bc almost every game it is a full house.
The only reason any player is picking the NBL over a Euroleague team is language or pay. Also, the NIL is indeed a bit threat, but it is also highlights a massive pain point of European development: younglings simply don't get enough time. Teams should play their youth, especially their promising native youth, as much as possible. Especially since they have their national league that they also have to play in. Furthermore, I wish Euroleague would have a rule of playing young players to force teams to invest more resources in them.
We can't continue to be short-sighted and only follow short-term gains.
The end of European basketball was the day euroleague was created
Wild cards destroyed the national championships.
There is no motivation to invest in basketball, since the criteria of participation at the top European tournament are not athletic.
You are catastrophizing, and a lot 🙂
The problem with NBA is that it is still "closed system". What ever grumps about to many international players in NBA are, the fact is that it is still hard to enter NBA and that it can do only the best of the best, and that even of those that enter only several get the respect they deserve. And it will be even more "closed system", especially at coledge level, where you have traditions, where who and where your parents went to coledge matters more than anything esle, etc. There will be for sure increase in talents going early into USA, but I don't think it will be significant increse at all, because that "big money" would mostly go to home young talents, athletic looking Afroamericans that can be comercialized in market early, while foreigners would not have such generous offers, nothing that Barcelona or Real Madrid could not top up if needed… And there is still that moment where internationals in NBA are not being given minutes, and that will be the big no-no for many to venture there, at least until they win everything in Europe, like Vasilije MIcić, for example, and again, he went to NBA with guaranted minutes to play, and they tricked him, so if he was not transphered from Thunder to Hornets, he would return to Europe to play for several millions less, but to play. Same treatment, if not even worse, will be on coledge level, where it is not important to put the best talent on the court, but the most sounding name, so the fun base can have recognizible reason to cheer and buy tickets…
And for Aisan and Oceanian leagues, I will ask you just one question: Do you remember who Miroslav Raduljica is? We called him once upon a time The Gods Hand. Then he went to China league in 2017. Do you know where is he now? At Maroussi — google it… Once NBA player and Euroleague legend called The Gods Hand, and in that time one of my favourite players, literary diminished as player playing with small Chineses in no quallity leaugue… Now ending in no name Greek team… He went to China for bigger money, and ended palying for no money. Today no seriouse player would allow himself that path, at least not in it's prime, because if you want to stay among the best, you must play among the best, so players are today aware that Asian leagues are one-way thickets, and that there is no easy, if any, return back to premier leagues once it is done… So it is good retirement plan, but total catastrophy for young talentet players that just started to seek development and affirmation… That prospect will not draw many talents, if any at all, at best it will maybe pull some scrambles that couldn't find their place in leagues that matters.
So, the future is not that bleak, and you touched one very important reason why NBA can pay their players millions: it is not because there are best players in the world, but because they have much much higher ravenue return on the market. Bigger ravenue, more money for player's contracts. WNBA has that problem, they want the same payment as in NBA, but there is simply no ravenue return for such contracts. So Euroleague needs to find a way to increse their ravenue on the market if they want to parry NBA, it is simple formula, but still not the formula for talents, just for player sallaries and eventual atraction of established players. Take for example Serbian or Lithuanian national basketball leagues — they play for peanuts (and not today but for last 30-40 years) in comparison to Spain ABC (not even trying to compare it to NBA money…), but still have steady production of great quallity players through the year, and even the greatest world players. Jokić didn't went to american coledge, nor did Sabonis… Nor did Aleksa Avramović, developed as player in small Serbian town Čačak where they pay their players in products, because they literary don't have any money (I am caricaturizing a little, but KK Čačak 94 literary survives from year to year only thanks to volunteering efforts of variouse people), and then he came out of nowhere and made a fool of SGA that this year was top 3 candidates for MVP in the richest league n Earth… And would amerrican unicersity and coledge scouts dig up Aleksa Acramaović in his teen years in Čačak 94? Dream on, they literary don't know who is he even now, when he is fully developed player (but I have feeling they will learn first game on Olympics, the harder way 🙂
The biggest thing is "Armature" rules dont apply for college anymore. A Euro kid can train play and get paid say from 14 to 18 then transfer to the NCAA. Thats nuts. Most highschool kids are lucky to have one couch with any college experience. Lucky. More Europeans will get college spots.
Comrade. Main problem here is that will NBA and NCAA destroy-degrade quality of european players. Young european players shows it superiority and dominance over college US players during past 10 years. NBA wants to stop that trend. The easiest way for that is to bring the best european talents to the US during their very young age and make of them US mentalllity and US basketball knowledge players. It will bring on top again strainght and athleticism and turn down brain. I am watched a lot of videos where NBA analyst saying that NBA loosing audience, NBA loosing number of views per game, loosing TV share against other sports in US: NFL, Hockey, Soccer,… Their explanation for that is domination of europan palyers in NBA, domination of european style of play against US style, based on athleticism, atractivines, speed,… The most of european players are smarter then US players but they play slow unatractive basketball. NBA wants to use their talent and basketball IQ and make of them US NBA players. Sorry because of awful English.
1:35 But i think to grow more as a player and reach new heights later is better to keep in a pro league. Usa has more to win with this than them.
I think euro league needs to keep selling the quality of the actual basketball. I like the nba but I’m so tired of all the stoppages, ad breaks, the 2.5 hour endurance event to watch an nba game that should take no longer than 60 mins, homogeneous strategies, over reliance on ISO plays, boring strategies employed by coaches that just end up with a crazy athletic play or a moving screen with 5 travels into a drive and kick for a 3pt play.
Euroleague seems to correct almost all of these flaws in the nba, as well as having genuine fans who create atmosphere, not the DJ at the arena. I’m very keen to get into the Euroleague but kinda don’t know where to start and this video kinda discouraged me if the league is looking like it’s gonna take a huge hit and if all my fav players in the eventual team I choose to support will leave to go to college/nba.
I think there is a growing discontent with the hysteria in nba media, the homogeneity in the league and their strategies and the pain of actually watching an nba game.
I always look forward to the Olympics because the game is so much more beautiful but the competition is so lopsided. I just wish we could have great competition with international/euroleague rules and atmosphere 🙏 and I think I’m not alone in this desire