“Black Friday” for teams from Spain

2017-12-03T11:25:37+00:00 2017-12-03T12:00:49+00:00.

Evaggelos Papadimitriou

03/Dec/17 11:25

Eurohoops.net

Five teams from Spain are competing in this year’s Turkish Airlines Euroleague and on round 10 for the first time in history, all fives were defeated during the same week.

By Evangelos Papadimitriou / info@eurohoops.net

This is not the first time that five Spanish teams are playing in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.

It has happened also in the 2004-05 season (Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Estudiantes, Baskonia, Unicaja Malaga), in the 2008-09 season (Baskonia, FC Barcelona, Joventut, Unicaja Malaga, Real Madrid), in the 2010-11 season (Baskonia, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Unicaja Malaga, Valencia), in the 2011-12 season (FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Baskonia, Bilbao, Unicaja Malaga) and in the 2014-15 season (Baskonia, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Unicaja Malaga, Valencia).

This is, however, the first time that it has happened in the new 16 teams format and it’s a result of Valencia Baskets winning the Liga Endesa and Unicaja Malaga’s triumph in EuroCup last season, while Real Madrid, Barcelona and Baskonia have long-term contracts.

And that makes this season’s Day 10 unique. For the first time, all five teams coming from Spain were defeated in the same week. In the past, the worst case was at least one win, but this time:

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