By Evangelos Papadimitriou/ info@eurohoops.net
With 10 days to go to the start of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers, FEB is still unclear as to the availability of the 24 players it has shortlisted for the national team’s games away to Montenegro on November 24 and at home against European champions Slovenia on November 26.
Speaking during Tuesday’s Sports Breakfast with Europa Press, Tebas said: “I’ve been paying a lot of attention to what is happening (in basketball) because it is a consequence of the neglect at the time of Euroleague’s creation. If what is currently happening is permitted, they will run over the national team and run over the ACB, which is already in a complicated situation. If it is not stopped, they will run over Spain basketball, for sure.
If FIBA is not successful in this, Spanish basketball is in the position of disappearing as an industry. We need to protect national industries and have Spanish players comply with the law.”.
Jorge Garbajosa, the President of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), backed this stance.
Source: FIBA.basketball