Barcelona (EFE) in A, with Happoel Tel Aviv, as the main seed.
The Canaries will be the rival to beat, in a group that includes, in addition to Turk Telekom, Ratiopharm Ulm, the new German champion, as well as Buducnost VOLI Podgorica, which dominates the Montenegrin league with an iron hand.
One of the classics of Greek basketball, Aris from Thessaloniki, returns to the continental concert after seven seasons, while two other teams that last season played in the playoffs for the title (French Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse and Lithuanian 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys) They are also embedded in this group. The Italian Dolomiti Energia Trento, the Polish Slask Wroclaw and the Romanian U-BT Cluj-Napoca complete the ten.
In group A, headed by Israeli Hapoel Tel Aviv, who reached the Eurocup quarterfinals last season, Joventut de Badalona, one of the two former Eurocup champions in the 20-team group, is included. .
In this group there are many aspirants such as the Ukrainians from Prometey Slobozhanske, a semifinalist last year and who last season played their matches in Latvia, and the Italian Umana Reyer Venice.
Two other teams that played in the play-offs last season, Britain’s London Lions and Germany’s Veolia Towers Hamburg, are also in Group A.
Turkish Besiktas Istanbul returns to the competition after seven seasons away and Lithuanian Wolves Vilnius completes the group. EFE