By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
In the midst of Euroleague play offs, basketball action goes on all around Europe and here is an interesting story about the Russian cup. As you may have heard the trophy was won by Krasnye Krylia for the second straight year after beating 86-80 Spartak St. Petersburg in the final, which has a disappointing season after letting Pat Beverley go to Houston Rockets.
However, you can see in this list with all the games played this season for the Russian cup that some big names are missing. Since 2011 teams like CSKA Moscow, Khimki, Unics Kazan and Eurocup winner Lokomotiv Kuban decided that they don’t want to spend energy and money in order to compete in their domestic cup, which in the best case scenario gives them a spot in Eurocup. So the real question is if that’s a sign for the future of domestic cups all over Europe…