By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The start of a bold, new era in European professional basketball will be celebrated on Thursday, July 7 when all 40 Euroleague Basketball clubs come together to launch the 2016-17 season in both the Turkish Airlines Euroleague and the Eurocup.
Executives from all the best European clubs will land in Barcelona, Spain for a series of events that will open the new season in continent’s two strongest competitions and set the stage for all the excitement and novelty that the new basketball season will bring next fall.
The day begins with a meeting of the Eurocup Assembly to review with all 24 teams the many improvements coming to that competition. That will be followed by a ECA Shareholders Meeting to mark the steps ahead in the Euroleague as it breaks ground with a format change to become the first true round-robin competition in the history of elite European team sports.
Next, the 2016-17 SEASON TIP-OFF will take a final look at the Euroleague campaign behind us by honoring the Gianluigi Porelli Euroleague Executive of the Year and Euroleague Basketball Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year for 2015-16 season.
And last but not least, the tip-off event will conclude with the 2016-17 Eurocup draw, which will reveal the competition’s regular season groups.
All the Euroleague and Eurocup club representatives will be available to the media after the ceremony, to put an end to a day that will start the ball bouncing toward a new season, full of innovation, in just a few months.