By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After a meeting with FEB (Spanish Basketball Federation) and ACB (Association of Basketball Clubs – the governing body of Liga Endesa), CSD president Jose Ramon Lete proposed a conciliatory solution to the conflict between them.
Lete handed Jorge Garbajosa (FEB president) and Francisco Roca (ACB President) a proposal that sets the Spanish League teams to 16 in 2018/2019 and considers the next season as a “transitional state” with the league keeping 18 clubs.
This figure of 18 for the 2017-2018 campaign will allow “the games calendar to be viable,” according to the CSD, who pointed out that the document submitted by its president, Jose Ramon Lete, to those responsible for the FEB and the ACB “unites the interests of all the estates involved in Spanish basketball”.
The proposal of the Council is based on “two fundamental sports premises: that conditions are established which allow the promotion of the clubs that obtain this right on the court and that the total number of games is reduced, at least for the teams that play in multiple competitions”.
As explained by the CSD, the draft specifies the need to maintain all current competitions (League, Cup and Super Cup), as well as the competition system with playoff.
This is a first proposal to resolve the conflict, which will be made concrete in the next meetings. For Lete, “it meets the needs of the different groups involved in Spanish basketball, which would provide a viable scenario for a competition that in the 2018-19 season will include a maximum of 16 teams in the CBA.”